Thread by @arthurmensch

We somehow got put in the spotlight the last few days! First we'd like to thank the organizers of the AI show for that, we can't get enough of this stuff. I'll say a few things about where we are and what we do.

First, we have a nice model coming this summer – we hope it will delight and surprise in a few capabilities. This will be the start of a new family of models, fat indeed, but sparse. We're opening up an early access program in July for key partners in research, government and the industry.

This model and upcoming ones will be open-weight. We believe this is critical for our customer confidence and for the research and developer communities. You cannot own, inspect, audit, or improve a system you are only permitted to reach through someone else's interface, especially if data recording can no longer be turned off.

We've built Studio (for deployment) and Forge (for training) as portable products, and are now hosting them on infrastructure we control. We'll run in your VPC, your datacenter, or on our infrastructure that is decoupled from US service providers. We have capacity online, it's growing fast, and we can help you secure it.

We're working with companies and governments around the world to make sure their AI systems are up and running outside of external control, improving with each model release, and with an efficient cost structure. Forge allows to continuously train models based on recorded human-AI interaction, a key unlock for efficiency.

AI, just like oil in the 20th century, is about to become the major source of leverage and power in the world. Depending on how the coming years unfold, it will either lead to a world of wealth and abundance for all, or to the worst extractive economies that the world has ever seen. We're there to fight for the first scenario, as we progress AI research and accelerate its diffusion across the world – we're hiring if you like the quest.