According to foreign science and technology media, The Information reported, OpenAI in order to fight against Microsoft and Meta’s co-developed open source model Llama 2, is currently internal development codenamed “G3PO” of the new open source model, it is not clear when it will be released.
Llama 2 model has a total of 70 billion parameters, not only open source but also supports commercial licenses, allowing any individual and enterprise to use the model to make money.
OpenAI currently uses a closed-source model, so it felt the pressure from the Llama 2 model, so it planned to release an open-source model two months ago, reportedly under the internal codename “G3PO”.
Reddit users cited two reasons for OpenAI’s delay in releasing the open-source model:
- The OpenAI team is relatively small and is focused on promoting an app store that provides a marketplace for customers to sell custom AI models. This helps OpenAI build a moat.
- OpenAI also wants to create a personalized ChatGPT assistant. The source said that the effort to launch a true “spin-off” to compete directly with Microsoft “could take years”.
