Why Zuckerberg Strongly Believes Open Source AI Could Be Best Approach

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes making artificial intelligence (AI) open source could be the best approach to leveraging the novel technology. Artificial intelligence has advanced significantly in the past couple of years and now represents one of the most demanded tools in business circles. With the advent of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, it seems like every business is racing to incorporate the technology into their products.

In a recent blog posted on Meta’s website, Zuckerberg discussed the early days of complex computing when every major technology company focused on developing closed-source Unix versions. The subsequent popularity of open-source Linux made it more accessible to developers, lowered the costs involved and led to the development of a broader, more secure, more advanced ecosystem that could support more capabilities compared to closed-source Unix.

Operating systems for the majority of mobile devices and cloud computing use Linux as the standard foundation, Zuckerberg notes, and this has resulted in the development of superior products. The tech moguls in AI development should adopt a similar open-source approach. Although most of the technology companies involved in developing artificial intelligence are working on closed models, open source AI is already gaining popularity and may soon be just as common as closed-source variations.

Llama 2, one of the first open-source models to hit the market, was only comparable to older models, but Llama 3 is now on the same level as and competing with some of the most advanced AI models in the fledgling AI segment. Zuckerberg expects Llama models to become more advanced than all other models in the industry from next year. In the meantime, however, Llama is already ahead of most of the market in terms of cost efficiency, modifiability and openness.

Zuckerberg noted that Meta is working to make open-source artificial intelligence a standard in the global AI industry with the release of the first-ever, frontier-level, open-source AI model, Llama 3.1 405B, as well as improved versions of the Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models. The open-source AI models have “significantly better” performance and costs compared to closed models, Zuckerberg said. He also noted that the open-source 405B model will be the better choice for distilling and fine-tuning smaller AI models.

Additionally, Zuckerberg said Meta is currently working with a variety of companies to expand its broader AI ecosystem. This includes NVIDIA, Databricks and Amazon, which will soon launch various services to provide support for developers as they fine tune and distill their AI models.

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