Minor Gripe - The AI Whale Fall and Open Source
- July 13, 2026 - 5 mins read Frontier labs are subsidizing AI usage, and we’d be fools not to use it to improve the state of open source while that holds out.
- A whale fall is the bloom of an ecosystem when the carcass of a whale sinks and lands on the ocean floor, providing food and spurring the creation of new life.
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- July 13, 2026 - 5 mins read Frontier labs are subsidizing AI usage, and we’d be fools not to use it to improve the state of open source while that holds out.
- A whale fall is the bloom of an ecosystem when the carcass of a whale sinks and lands on the ocean floor, providing food and spurring the creation of new life.
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