equity Unlocking Success: Equality of Opportunity vs. Equity - The Real Winner -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #26 Yesterday I posted a conversation between the former Digital Minister of Taiwan, Audrey Tang, and Frederike Kaltheuner at thiss years re:publica in Berlin. Frederike Kaltheuner, raided the question were we need to invest to increase plurality and suggested that investing in open source AI, we would still need to
Bridging the Digital Divide: Harnessing Copyleft for Equitable AI Innovation -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #25 During the last few years, I have been calling for copyleft licensing for health data. Now, with my latest article, I delve into how copyleft licenses can dismantle information asymmetries, accelerate innovation, and make healthcare advancements accessible to all. By ensuring that data derivatives remain open and public, we can
Liberating AI: The End of Surveillance – 🦛 💌 Hippogram #24 Reflecting on the past two years of open-source AI advancements in large language models, it’s evident that open-source communities are leading innovation faster, more affordably, and inclusively than proprietary efforts from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. This progress has even extended to edge AI, where models operate independently
Blog The Assetization of Medical Data and Medical AI: A System Designed for Inequality and Exorbitant Prices Introduction The transformation of pharmaceuticals into financial assets has introduced the logics of scarcity and high prices from low-to-middle income countries to high-income countries. This shift has spurred new forms of activism, raising the question: will similar patterns emerge with the assetization of medical data and medical AI? This article
Hippogram Investor Panic Fuels Closed-Source Narrative, but Open-Source AI Foundation Models Will Define the Future I received the link to the blog post “The future of foundation models is closed-source” from at least 15 people within my network, highlighting the widespread dissemination of the author's biased blog post. The spread of his blog post, aligns with the bullshit asymmetry principle (Brandolini's
Hippogram AI Act, Dislightenment power to BigTech -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #22 You are about to read our newsletter for health and tech professionals - the Hippogram. I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years. In that time, I've witnessed the evolution of technologies that are changing
Hippogram Message from Clement Delangue -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #21 You are about to read our newsletter for health and tech professionals - the Hippogram. I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years. In that time, I've witnessed the evolution of technologies that are changing
Hippogram Regeneration, Sustainability -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #20 The 20th edition of the Hippogram focuses on the myths of open source
It's been 5 years since we got all the "attention" we wanted. Check out this cool animation, tracing the journey from the day the paper "Attention is all you need" was released to the present day. It illustrates how Open Source Large Language Models have risen to prominence, surpassing the previously dominant closed-source AI landscape of Google and OpenAI.
Build, Community, AskPaper -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #19 I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and
It's a Wrap and the Start I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and
Breaking the Wall of Health Inequality Hippo AI Open Health Data and AI Summit Today marks the beginning of an expanded awareness campaign. As we are now constructing the healthcare systems in which our children will live, we believe it is of utmost importance that they serve everyone equitably and are based on European values such
Conversation, Summit & Anthropology -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #18 I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and
Hippogram Text-to-Protein-Function, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #17 The impact of the current changes taking place in the AI space is not well known, which is why this newsletter focuses on some recent breakthroughs in the realm of open-sourced AI, which are moving at an unseen speed.
Hippogram Taking Unity & Solidarity to the Next Level, -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #16 Bart's State of AI lecture at the annual Economist Thessaloniki Metropolitan Summit.
Hippogram Disrupting Giants Regulation Gone Wrong -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #15 Bart describes the recent developments on Open Source Collaborations and how it is disrupting giants. Looking at EU regulators, it seems these Open Source development are not well understood -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #15
Hippogram OS, AI, Mythbusters -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #14 The 14th edition of the Hippogram focuses on the myths of open source
Sea, Shift and Open -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #13 I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and
Love, Trails and Openness -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #12 The 12th edition of the Hippogram focuses on the sentient-like AI, agency and openness
NZZ Interview with Bart (in German) Gesundheitsdaten solidarisch teilen? Interview mit Bart de WitteFrüher arbeitete er in Tech-Konzernen zur Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens. Heute kämpft Bart de Witte dafür, dass Patientendaten solidarisch geteilt werden.Neue Zürcher ZeitungRuth Fulterer
Hippogram Moore's Law, Future of Drugs and Commons -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #11 Welcome to our newsletter for health and tech professionals - the bi-weekly Hippogram. I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been part of the health technology community and industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. In that time, the evolution of technologies changed the
Hippogram Core, Complements and Trust -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #10 The 10th edition of the Hippogram focuses on large transformer models and openness
Hippogram Massive, Transformer, Openness -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #9 The 9th edition of the Hippogram focuses on large transformer models and openness
Twitter, Open, People Governance -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #8 I'm Bart de Witte, and I've been inside the health technology industry for more than 20 years as a social entrepreneur. During that time, I've witnessed and was part of the evolution of technologies that are changing the face of healthcare, business models, and
Hippogram The Dark Side of AI, AI Patents & AI Index Report -- 🦛 💌 Hippogram #7 The 7th edition of the Hippogram focuses on AI patents and open access to knowledge.
