"OpenAI, a rival of Google, is planning to release their first open-source language model to the public, potentially putting pressure on Google to do the same. OpenAI's $27 billion private valuation depends on their proprietary AI model GPT being used for commercial purposes, not open-source software."
I ran a bard summarisation of the post:
In February 2023, Meta Platforms released sophisticated machine-learning models that can understand conversational language. These models were made available to academics and developers, who have since used them to create open-source alternatives to proprietary AI software from Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
Open-source AI models are now "reasonably close" in performance to proprietary models, and most software developers will eventually opt to use the free ones, according to Ion Stoica, a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley, who helped develop a key open-source AI model using Meta's technology.
Open-source AI development is "lapping" proprietary AI development, and Google is at risk of falling behind by focusing on proprietary software. Google should establish itself as a leader in the open source community and relinquish some control over its models, according to a senior Google engineer.
Meta stands to gain from releasing its models, as developers will improve them and Meta will be able to incorporate those improvements in its in-house AI.
OpenAI is preparing to release its first open-source language model, which could put pressure on Google to play a bigger role in open-source AI.
Open-source AI models are cheaper to train and use than proprietary models, and they allow companies to use proprietary data to solve problems on their own.
Open-source AI software has thwarted OpenAI's ambitions before, and it is possible that the same pattern will be followed for large-language models.
The blog post concludes by stating that the rise of open-source AI is a major development that is likely to have a significant impact on the future of AI.
"OpenAI, a rival of Google, is planning to release their first open-source language model to the public, potentially putting pressure on Google to do the same. OpenAI's $27 billion private valuation depends on their proprietary AI model GPT being used for commercial purposes, not open-source software."
I ran a bard summarisation of the post: