Marc Benioff predicts a shift towards open source large language models as the future of AI technology. He emphasizes that the community-driven development has been essential for AI's progress over the past two decades. With the introduction of DeepSeek's R1 model, which operates under the MIT license, application developers can leverage powerful AI tools at a significantly reduced cost. This shift may challenge existing commercial models and encourage innovation, ultimately driving down costs in the AI market.
AI has got to where it is, over the last two decades, through open source. Salesforce is a huge contributor to the body of work, including the prompt engineering and other critical parts of these model technologies.
[DeepSeek is] basically free, and you can put it in your product. And Salesforce, for example, could easily do this and reduce our cost of using our model by 90 percent.
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