The AI boom has raised the stakes in the tech industry's long running debate over the merits of open source versus closed source software. But for Facebook parent company Meta, "unlocking" large language models is the only way to go if AI is to reach its full potential.
“It’s ridiculous for me to think of a world where we enclose AI and have an API for intelligence,” Manohar Paluri, a vice president of generative AI engineering at Meta, said Tuesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco. “Progress for AI in the coming decades will only happen if we go the open route.”
