Is Open Source AI Is Eating Commercial Providers Lunch?

Hello everyone, this week we'll talk about some of the advancements from the open source community as it competes with closed source models and a few top AI insights.

The realm of open-source AI continues to show significant growth and transformation, challenging traditional software development models from giants like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.?

Notable platforms like Hugging Face now host over 700,000 large language models, drastically democratizing access to cutting-edge AI technologies.?

It's not only that LLMs are becoming more and more accessible; they are also outcompeting closed-source models in a lot of key ways.

Check out this table breakdown of where open-source AI is outcompeting closed-source models.

However, the explosion of these technologies also introduces new complexities in areas such as security, ethics, and quality control. The last 3 months, terms like AI security, AI cyber security or AI quality control have skyrocketed in interest.

Enterprises integrating open-source AI solutions are facing real challenges of managing a balance between innovation and responsible deployment.?

It'll be interesting to see over the coming years how companies chose to integrate AI further, whether fine-tuning or refining open source models or choosing to pay a premium for closed source alternatives.

My guess is we'll see a lot of start-ups and tech-forward SMEs choosing to go AI native by building upon open source modes even if in a closed environment vs larger enterprise organizations choosing a more managed service approach to AI with closed source models.

The ramifications of these decisions may not be evident for several years as incumbents strive to maintain their market dominance. However, over time, the most savvy companies will prevail, as the financial barriers once protecting incumbents will eventually erode.

Hopefully, analyses like this one are giving forward-thinking enterprises a roadmap for how open-sourced AI can play a meaningful role in their business.

This Week's Top AI Insights:

The Evolution of Creative AI -> Google's latest foray into AI-driven creativity introduces StyleDrop. It's an innovative tool designed to render artistic images based on referece images to help with greater individual styles. This development is not just a big technological leap but also a big cultural shift, as it challenges traditional notions of artistic authorship and creativity.

Early AI Adopters in Education → Arizona State University's integration of ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier into its operations is a first in university history. It aims to help staff and professors find ways to benefit from the power of AI tools and will be hosting a challenge to find the ways to best drive education with this new technology [LINK].

Impact of AI in Healthcare Becoming Undeniable → A study published in Science Direct analyzed over a hundred published articles in the last 12 months to uncover the role of AI in diagnostics and treatment in clinical settings. The takeaway → AI is everywhere in medicine. Check out how they went about this analysis below.

Big players have been taking notes of the power of biotech + AI with Jensen Huang recently saying "For the very first time in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science." Take a look at some of Nvidia's recent biotech investments.