The battle between generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies is underway with two competing camps: open source software versus closed source. Key to the debate is how the tech is ...

Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer at Hugging Face, says both open source and closed source artificial ...

Meta’s Llama models are steadily closing the gap with OpenAI’s GPT-4o and o1, pushing towards autonomous machine intelligence ...

software which source code is open, available for anyone to examine at their convenience. Closed-source software is restricted to authorized individuals — mostly proprietary stuff in the tech ...

Part of the confusion around open-source AI is that despite its name, OpenAI — the company behind ChatGPT and the image-generator DALL-E — builds AI systems that are decidedly closed.

Examples include Android being an open-source operating system but generally using the closed-source Google Play suite in practice, or Firefox including support for Adobe Flash. Another great ...

A new report by research organization Epoch AI found that open models available today are about a year behind the top closed models.

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 ...

Why doesn't OpenAI open-source the AI models behind ChatGPT if the company is called OpenAI? It boils down to what OpenAI is "good at" and the pathway to hitting the company's safety thresholds ...