TechScape: Will Meta’s open-source LLM make AI safer – or put it into the wrong hands?

Meta HQ in California Photograph: Peter Dasilva/Reuters

The AI summer is well and truly upon us. (This gag may not play as well for readers in the southern hemisphere.) Whether we call this period the peak of the “hype cycle” or simply the moment the curve goes vertical will only be obvious in hindsight, but the cadence of big news in the field has gone from weekly to almost daily. Let’s catch up with what the biggest players in AI – Meta, Microsoft, Apple and OpenAI – are doing.

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