May 8, 2023

The introduction of open-source AI technologies has posed a serious threat to industry heavyweights such as Google and OpenAI.

The publication of Meta’s LLaMA model represented a watershed moment in the open-source AI movement, sparking a wave of creativity from individuals and organizations throughout the world. As a result, access to AI technology has grown more democratic, with lower entry barriers leading in rapid progress.

The open-source community has lately made significant progress in a number of crucial areas, including foundation model implementation on mobile devices, personal AI scalability, responsible release, and multimodality. As a result, the gap between open-source models and those built by digital giants like Google is quickly decreasing, with quicker, more customized, and more private solutions available at substantially lower costs.

This evolution has necessitated a reevaluation of Google’s competitive advantage and the adoption of a more collaborative strategy with external developers. According to a leaked memo from a Google senior software engineer, open-source solutions have achieved amazing advances in areas that have created substantial hurdles for both Google and OpenAI, underscoring the necessity of embracing cooperation in the sector.

These big tech companies are urged to learn from the open-source community’s breakthroughs and adopt the most promising techniques, such as Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA), which enables efficient and cost-effective model optimization, making it more accessible to a broader range of developers and researchers for model fine-tuning.

The sources for this piece include an article in CMSWIRE.