VentureBeat October 24, 2024
The enterprise world is rapidly growing its usage of open source large language models (LLMs), driven by companies gaining more sophistication around AI – seeking greater control, customization, and cost efficiency.
While closed models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 dominated early adoption, open source models have since closed the gap in quality, and are growing at least as quickly in the enterprise, according to multiple VentureBeat interviews with enterprise leaders.
This is a change from earlier this year, when I reported that while the promise of open source was undeniable, it was seeing relatively slow adoption. But Meta’s openly available models have now been downloaded more than 400 million times, the company told VentureBeat, at a rate 10 times higher than...