Free and Open Source! Microsoft actually "cheated" on Meta, OpenAI "got robbed"

Woke up and found out that OpenOpenAIIIIIIII got "robbed".

On Tuesday local time, Microsoft held the Inspire conference and announced the release of the commercial version of the open-source AI model Llama, which serves as an alternative to OpenOpenAIIIIIIII and Google models for startups and other companies.

At the same time, Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms, which has always been seen as lagging behind its peers in the competition with OpenAI, stated in a blog post that the new version of the model, Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud service and will run on the Windows operating system, calling Microsoft "our preferred partner".

Microsoft responded from a distance, saying, "We are pleased to be the preferred partner of Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms."

According to the blog post and another article published by Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms previously only provided the model for research purposes to designated scholars, but now it can be downloaded directly or obtained through Amazon Web Services, Hugging Face, and other providers.

Zuckerberg wrote, "Open sourcing drives innovation, enabling more developers to build with new technologies." "I believe that if the ecosystem is more open, (large models) will make more progress."

The collaboration between Microsoft and OpenOpenAIIIIIIII has always been a hot topic, and now with the intervention of Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms, Llama and OpenOpenAIIIIIIII are competing on Azure. How will OpenOpenAIIIIIIII respond?

Is the world of large models about to change?

Llama's open source and commercial offerings may pose a significant threat to OpenOpenAIIIIIIII, which currently dominates the world of large-scale models.

It is reported that Llama 1 is already capable of competing with OpenOpenAIIIIIIII and Google Bard chatbots. Compared to Llama 1, Llama 2 has 40% more training data, doubled context length, and over 1 million manually labeled examples to fine-tune its output quality.

Furthermore, the published evaluation results show that Llama 2 outperforms other open-source language models in various external benchmark tests, including reasoning, encoding, proficiency, and knowledge testing.

Amjad Masad, CEO of the software development platform Replit, stated, "The commercial version of Llama could change the current landscape." He mentioned that over 80% of projects on their platform use OpenOpenAIIIIIIII's models.

However, it is worth noting that within equally powerful systems, the value of Llama may only lie in its open-source nature. Once developers can freely use equally powerful open-source systems, its value will diminish.

In a leaked internal Google document titled "We Have No Moat, and OpenOpenAIIIIIIII Doesn't Either," Google predicts that they cannot win this arms race, and neither can OpenOpenAIIIIIIII, because of open-source software. "Third parties are quietly eating away at the advantages that belong to us," the document states.

Masad also mentioned, "Any incremental improvements to open-source models will erode the market share of closed-source models because you can run them at a lower cost and with fewer dependencies."

Microsoft's "betrayal" of Meta Platformsa Platformsa Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms Platforms has long been foreshadowed

When asked why Microsoft supports Llama, which could threaten the position of OpenOpenAIIIIIIII, a Microsoft spokesperson stated that allowing developers to choose the type of model they use helps strengthen Microsoft's position as the preferred cloud platform for OpenAI.

No mention was made of OpenOpenAIIIIIIII.

The alliance between Microsoft and OpenOpenAIIIIIIII has always been considered exemplary in the tech industry.

With an investment of over $10 billion, Microsoft has gained the opportunity to stay ahead in the OpenAI wave and the right to boast to investors. OpenOpenAIIIIIIII, on the other hand, has hitched a ride on Azure, ensuring its financial stability in the race of burning money and computational power for large-scale models. But the marriage of the two is far from being as sweet as it seems.

Wall Street News previously mentioned in an article that in the eyes of some customers who purchase GPT services, the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is quite chaotic.

Internal documents from Microsoft show that it requires salespeople to emphasize to customers that Azure can provide the same full functionality as OpenAI, and is more suitable for enterprise customers, while OpenAI's authorization is "limited in enterprise-level functionality" and "has fewer security/privacy features".

To avoid antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft only holds 49% of OpenAI's shares. In essence, OpenAI's technology does not belong to Microsoft, and Microsoft does not have direct control over OpenAI.

And now, with the "interference" of Meta Platforms, it once again proves that there are gaps and cracks in the "marriage" between Microsoft and OpenAI.