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Not all 'open source' AI models are open: here's a ranking
Many of the large language models that power chatbots claim to be open, but restrict access to code and training data.
The study cuts through “a lot of the hype and fluff around the current open-sourcing debate”, says Abeba Birhane, a cognitive scientist at Trinity College Dublin and adviser on AI accountability to Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Mountain View, California. The EU’s AI Act, which passed this year, will exempt open-source general-purpose models, up to a certain size, from extensive transparency requirements, and commit them to lesser and as-yet-undefined obligations. “We choose to make artifacts like models, code, tools, and datasets publicly available because the developer and research communities have an important role to play in the advancement of AI technology.” Meta did not respond to a request for comment from Nature.
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