OpenAI also releases a big language model (LLM) as an open source.

It’s read as an try and expand its position by jumping on the bandwagon of the popularization of open source LLM amongst developers. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) developers mainly use technologies shared by the open source community relatively than expensive LLMs developed with astronomical investments by Google or OpenAI, forming an environment resulting in popularization of the open source model. am.

IT media The Information reported on the fifteenth (local time) that OpenAI is preparing to release a recent language model based on open source, citing a source accustomed to the interior circumstances of OpenAI.

While competition amongst big tech firms surrounding large-scale language models (LLMs) is intensifying, open-source camps are introducing small language models (sLLMs) one after one other.

Particularly, after LLM ‘LLaMA’, which was released by Meta, was leaked in February, open source small language models developed using it are pouring in. Open source small language models equivalent to ‘Alpaca’ and ‘Vicuna’, which were trained based on leaked llamas, showed performance that surpassed llamas.

Accordingly, it’s argued that open source-based small language models are emerging as an alternative choice to LLM, which is monopolized by Google or OpenAI.

In keeping with Google’s internal report, the open source small language model has already exceeded 90% of the performance of ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘Bard’.

The report said, “While Google and OpenAI were fighting, the open source camp narrowed the gap at an astonishing speed.” “AI, which only giants could create, can now be created by a single developer on a laptop, and even this open source AI is quicker and user-friendly. It also performs custom functions.”

He also said that open-source AI would pose a serious threat to Google’s AI-related business and technological advantage, saying that almost all developers would eventually select the free model.

Within the midst of this, there may be talk that OpenAI can also be preparing a recent open source language model. OpenAI also began as a non-profit open source organization at first, nevertheless it seems to have turned closed as a consequence of pressure to generate revenue.

As open source language models spread, open AI can also be interpreted as an intention to introduce open source language models. Nonetheless, plainly OpenAI is not going to release a model that may compete with ChatGPT as an open source. OpenAI declined to comment.

Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com