The author though raises concerns about both the availability (openness) of the model as well as the current ability to run it due to cost (equity / equality of access). Making the model available would still not make it equal access.
I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the openness argument, but the equality argument is separate.
If they released it, people would figure out a way to run it “equitably” within months, if not weeks.
The amount of cheap GPU access floating out there is nuts. You can spin up a GPU instance to do best-in-class ML stuff using Fast.Ai on services like Paperspace or Colab, right now, for free.
I’m not saying I agree or disagree with the openness argument, but the equality argument is separate.