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Sage Lazzaro

Can IBM and Meta's AI Alliance bring order to the fractured open source sector?

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As the AI industry has blossomed, it’s also fractured into camps around the idea of openness. Advocates for the open-source approach to AI say it promotes innovation and provides vital transparency, while those against argue that open-sourcing these powerful technologies leaves them open for misuse. Lately, critics have argued that many of the prominent so-called “open” AI technologies aren’t so open after all, and that the word has become more an object of marketing than a technical descriptor. 

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