The article highlights the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), established by Paul Allen, as a lesser-known but significant player in AI development. With its recent model, Tulu 3 405B, the institute aims to create AI systems that are fully open for public use and development, contrasting with the practices of companies like OpenAI. CEO Ali Farhadi discusses the rationale behind advocating for open-source AI, emphasizing transparency, accessibility, and collaboration as crucial components for innovation and solving global issues. Farhadi critiques the closed nature of current AI practices, which poses risks to the field's advancement.
Our mission is to do AI innovation and AI breakthroughs to solve some of the biggest working problems facing humanity today. The biggest threat to AI innovation is the closed nature of the practice.
If you think about open-source software, the core essence was, 'I should be able to understand what you did. I should be able to change it. I should be able to fork from it.'
Open weights models (such as Meta's) are great because people could just grab those weights and follow the rest, but they aren't open source. Open source is when you actually have access to every part of the puzzle.
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