AI Needs No App Store
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Today, Meta took the bold step of expanding its mixed reality ecosystem by open-sourcing its Meta Quest operating system, Meta Horizon OS, to third-party hardware manufacturers. This enables companies such as ASUS, Lenovo, and Qualcomm to develop their own devices using the platform, similar to Google's approach with Android for smartphones.
AI needs no app store?
With AI, Meta is also brewing something similar by open-souring Llama 3. It now looks to dethrone the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg recently spoke about his vision for AI, saying he doesn’t want it to end up like mobile apps.?
“One thing that I think generally sucks about the mobile ecosystem is that you have these two gatekeeper companies, Apple and Google, that can tell you what you’re allowed to build,” said Zuckerberg in a recent podcast with Dwarkesh Patel.?
He believes it is better for them to build a model themselves to ensure they do not end up in that position. “I don’t want any of those other companies telling us what we can build,” added Zuckerberg.?
Zuck also disdained how Apple or Google stores control what is released. He spoke about how, in the past, when they wanted to launch new features, Apple didn’t allow it. “Nope, you’re not launching that,” Apple had apparently told Zuckerberg.
With AI in the picture, it becomes even more critical to avoid putting the power into a few hands, where their closed models control APIs and dictate what others can build with them. Zuck believes that Llama’s philosophy of open source should address this issue.??
AI should be as open as the internet?
Meta’s AI chief, Yann LeCun, shares similar views, urging AI to be as open as the internet.??
“Eventually, all our interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants,” said LeCun, explaining that these platforms will constitute a repository of all human knowledge and culture; they will constitute a shared infrastructure like the internet today.?
He said that we cannot have a small number of AI assistants (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and alike) controlling the digital diet of every citizen across the world. “This will be extremely dangerous for diversity of thought, for democracy, for just about everything,” he added.?
Hugging Face is the new AI app store
Last week, Meta released early versions of its latest large language model Llama 3 and the reception has been huge. Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, mentioned in a post that there are already 1000 Llama 3 model variations that have been shared publicly on the platform and expects 10,000+ more models by next weekend. Read the full story here.?
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Microsoft recently launched Phi-3-Mini, a compact 3.8 billion parameter language model that runs natively on mobile devices, offering performance comparable to larger models like Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5, with improved coding and reasoning abilities, optimised for robustness and safety.?
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