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OpenAI May Release an Open-Source AI Model According to a Report
OpenAI and its ChatGPT generative AI model kickstarted a whole AI revolution in 2023. Every day, we see that new AI tools are making it to the light of day and showcasing great features that can make our everyday life easier and more productive. Still, the next step OpenAI allegedly plans to take may lead to even greater revolutionization of AI in the world. According to a new report, OpenAI is working on an open-source AI model that could change everything.
According to a new report published in The Information, OpenAI, the company behind the excellent ChatGPT generative AI model, is working on releasing a new language model which would be open-source.
Open-source programs have existed for years, and essentially it meant that the public would have access to the source code behind those programs. With OpenAI releasing an open-source AI model, people would get a chance to see the code behind ChatGPT and other GPT models.
Not the Only Open-Source AI Model
The reasoning behind this step, according to the report, is to fight competition. OpenAI’s AI models haven’t been available to the public since 2019, when the GPT-2 model was released, and caused a lot of concern regarding the possibility of it being used to spread propaganda and generate fake news that could lead to misinformation and panic.
One such concern was already voiced by The Guardian’s report in 2019, highlighting that the spread of fake information and propaganda could cause a new political threat.
Nevertheless, according to this report, it is believed that OpenAI is open-sourcing its new AI model due to competition with Meta, which also released an open-source AI model called LLaMa earlier this year.
The Meta’s AI model is quite sophisticated and advanced, being trained with over 65 billion parameters. Its complexity could put enough pressure on both Google and OpenAI to either open-source their models or release alternative models with their code visible to the public.
In return, to keep up with the competition, OpenAI would need to make better software and offer more features for its users. That said, the potentially new AI model won’t be a direct rival to GPT-4 and ChatGPT in particular.
Right now, ChatGPT based on GPT-3 model is available for free, while the more premium version of the program costs $20/month and runs on GPT-4 language model. That said, if OpenAI published its open-source AI model, it’ll likely offer fewer features than GPT-4 so it wouldn’t reduce the commercial value of ChatGPT Premium.
The potential release of the open-source AI model could change the way different tech companies develop their AI products, especially Google. After all, last month Google merged its two main AI divisions into one, so we can expect innovative AI products coming from all sides.
