If you take a taxi to a destination, why would you care about how the driver's name sounds like?
Same logic for coding agents. Attribution of co-authorship has zero impact on what u, a vibe-coder, want to achieve.
When Claude writes code, it signs the commit: Co-Authored-By: Claude. I'm paying for the model, and it still takes a credit line. Okay, fine.
But co-authorship is a claim about contribution. And that logic should work both ways.
So what about all those people who involuntarily "contributed" the training data? You know, half the internet. Don't they deserve co-authorship on the models?
Iโm incredibly excited to share this:
MiniMax has just closed a new $2B funding round. ๐
At the same time, our CEO, IO, shared three long-term commitments with the team:
โข No salary until we achieve AGI.
โข Over the next four years, he will dedicate shares equivalent to 4% of the companyโs total equity from his personal holdings to reward employees who are building MiniMax for the long term.
โข Another 1% will be committed to supporting the open-source community.
The funding is exciting. But what excites me even more is what it represents: a long-term commitment to AGI, to our people, and to the open-source ecosystem.
Weโre living through one of the most exciting moments in the history of AI, and weโre just getting started.
If youโre passionate about frontier AI, open source, and building the future, weโd love to build with you.
Intelligence with Everyone. ๐