An open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model is reportedly being prepared for public release by OpenAI, the corporate behind ChatGPT’s AI chatbot.
On May 16 report in The Information, citing an individual acquainted with the plan, OpenAI is making the move as pressure mounts from competing open-source AI models, akin to those from Meta released in February.
The timeline of when the model can be released has not been reported.
If OpenAI releases a very open-source model, it’s going to speed up progress into the stratosphere
— Alex MacCaw (@maccaw) May 15, 2023
It was said that OpenAI’s OpenAI model would likely not be competitive with its flagship ChatGPT product, as the corporate’s value comes from having the ability to sell access to its more sophisticated models.
Earlier in May, a leaked document from Google’s senior software engineer Luke Sernau pointed to open-source AI models as a big threat to the corporate’s own AI efforts.
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Sernau said that while Google was distracted by competition with OpenAI, open-source AI models have quietly, rapidly and significantly advanced.
Cointelegraph contacted OpenAI for comment but didn’t receive an instantaneous response.
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