Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons

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2024-05-08 11:30:03

A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises.

There is a growing number of open source models – or models that their developers claim is open source – that are coming onto the scene, from Stable AI’s Stable Diffusion 3 to Meta Platform’s Llama 3 to several from Mistral AI. OpenAI, which started the explosion around generative AI with its release of ChatGPT in late November 2022, open source its GPT-2 model, and Elon Musk is not only open sourcing X.ai’s Grok large language model but is also suing OpenAI – he was an initial investor – for not being open enough.

Hugging Face has become a repository of open source generative AI models and other resources – a sort of GitHub for that world – and Open Source Initiative is developing a definition of open source AI, a community effort with the latest draft being 0.0.8.