Forbes October 8, 2024
Tao Zhang, Head of Engineering at Caktus AI.
In recent years, the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape has seen a dramatic evolution. Industry leaders such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Labs continue to make substantial strides in advancing closed AI systems. At the same time, the open-source ecosystem has also emerged as a formidable contender in the race to develop sophisticated, multimodal generative models. For example, Meta’s recent release of open-source Llama 3.1 has provoked a broader conversation about the future viability of closed models like GPT and Claude. The once-dominant notion that closed models would retain their technical supremacy now faces growing skepticism while open-source models demonstrate competitiveness across a spectrum of use cases.
The Growth Of Open-Source AI
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