Generative AI, dominated by proprietary models locked inside big tech companies, is being disrupted by a new wave of open-source models.
Advocates argue open sourcing has vital benefits like enabling wider access, fostering innovation, and promoting transparency. Many people argue that open source will win in the marketplace.
But that conclusion is not obvious.
Open-sourcing generative AI is fundamentally different from the open-source movement that has given us tools like TensorFlow, MySQL or Kubernetes. Open-source dominated those arenas because the investment required — time and brain power — could be crowdsourced. But generative AI requires data and energy, both of which are increasingly… More.
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