Meta Set to Release Commercial AI Model to Compete with OpenAI and Google
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With the race to become the dominant force in the world of AI drawing in all of the largest tech firms around the world, Meta has developed plans to outperform competitors, according to sources familiar with the company. The insiders shared that the firm intends to release a commercial version of its AI model to reach a wider usage.
Meta has already released LLaMa, its own language model, which is available to researchers and academics. The AI model emerged earlier in 2023. However, the new tool would be available to everyone, including the companies, which will have the ability to customize it to fit their unique needs.
Meta’s free AI model would allow businesses to integrate it
The upcoming move would allow the company to position itself as a serious competitor to Microsoft-owned OpenAI, its ChatGPT, and Google. Both of these firms are considered the current leaders in offering publicly available AI models of this kind. The inside source stressed that Meta’s goal is to diminish OpenAI’s emerging market dominance.
Making LLaMa more available would allow businesses and startups to adopt this technology and build custom apps and software with Meta’s AI model at the base. At this time, the company’s models remain free and open-source. However, the sources that shared the news also said that Meta is exploring premium versions for enterprise users.
It is worth noting that the premium version will not be a part of the initial release of the tools. However, at some point down the road, Meta will likely publish premium versions in order to profit from the AI models and their usage for business purposes.
Meta is doing everything in its power to emerge as the AI leader
The company made the LLM model open-source, meaning that the details of how the system operates are available to the public. On the other hand, OpenAI did not do the same, as the company keeps ChatGPT’s code private.
This was also part of Meta’s plan, according to the sources. They said that the company realized that it was being left behind, so it decided to open up its ecosystem to bring back the attention of potential consumers. “This gives them a way to open up the ecosystem and seem like they are doing the right thing, being charitable and giving back to the community.”
It is also worth noting that Meta is currently facing another lawsuit, this time from Sarah Silverman. Silverman is an author, and together with two other authors, she sued the company on behalf of a lass of copyright owners across the US.
According to the accusations, Meta has committed copyright infringement by training its AI systems by using resources that did not belong to it. This is a rather common accusation against firms that develop AI. Even OpenAI itself got hit with a similar lawsuit.
