CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its Llama AI models, which are available to anyone, will surpass competitors next year. But the open approach has its critics too.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses appear on screen, during the Meta Connect event in September.
Instead, the company has chosen to make its AI open source, hoping to create an ecosystem where companies that don’t have their own AI tech use Meta’s, giving the company influence over huge swaths of the tech world, similar to how Google’s control of the Android operating system givesMeta’s family of Llama AI models have already been downloaded by companies and individuals 300 million times, said Rob Sherman, vice president of policy and deputy chief privacy officer at Meta.
“Open source will ensure that more people around the world have access to the benefits and opportunities of AI, that power isn’t concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies, and that the technology can be deployed more evenly and safely across society,” he wrote. Meta also provides tools that companies can use to test the safety of their AI systems.
Tuesday’s announcement comes as Meta tries to chart a new future for itself by building out a suite of AI products that it says will change the way people shop and communicate online.
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