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What AI vendor should you choose? Here are the top 7 (OpenAI still leads)


A review of 29 vendors put OpenAI at the top, but there 2025 will see high demand for proprietary, open source and small models.

IT firm GAI Insights hopes to bring some clarity to enterprise decision-makers with its release of the first known buyer’s guide to large language models (LLMs) and gen AI. Interestingly 90% of current deployments use proprietary LLMs (compared to open source), a trend the firm calls “Own Your Own Intelligence.” This is due to a need for greater data privacy, control and regulatory compliance. GAI Insights points out that small models are cost-effective and secure, and that there have been key developments in byte-level tokenization, weight pruning and knowledge distillation that are minimizing size and increasing performance.

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