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There's a new large language model in town that threatens to out-open open AI's chat GPT.

Lama 2 from Facebook parent company Meta has capabilities roughly in line with big name competitors,

but it's also open source, meaning the source code for the model is available for anyone to study

or build upon for free. Open AI, Google, and many other AI innovators have opted to keep their

latest models proprietary. A more open approach has obvious benefits for research and enterprise,

but can also be advantageous for the companies that put these tools out. Says Tom Goldstein,

a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. One benefit that companies do get

from open source is just that by open sourcing tools and participating in the academic community,

it helps increase public perceptions of their company. So for example, Google has always been

perceived as a very innovative, very technology-focused company that's doing all sorts of new things.

And one reason why is because they invest a lot in research and they do a really good job publicizing

the research that they do. And by open sourcing the research they do, they make really big impacts

in the academic community. And that helps them not just in terms of the public perception of

their company, but also when they want to hire people. It's really easy to hire technical people,

when technical people know that all of the good open source tools and a lot of the papers they read

are coming out of Google. Now that Google has closed off, a lot of it's R&D because it's an

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