Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models publicly available
Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models publicly available
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Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models publicly available
The soft power of making the best LLMs
This open accessibility is key to success. All the major Chinese companies are now making their models publicly available, transforming them into a substrate to build on top of. Conversely, US companies persist with a proprietary, subscription-service oriented business model virtually guaranteeing that Chinese models will become the global standard going forward. Any advantages proprietary models currently possess are fleeting as their tricks are quickly deciphered, while open-source alternatives benefit from continuous global contributions. It's the same dynamic Microsoft faced when it attempted to quash open-source in the early 2000s. A proprietary approach leads to zero-sum game dynamics, whereas an open approach creates a positive-sum environment. Ultimately, no single company can compete with the power of global collaboration.
Eh, a lot of American models are open too. Meta's llama and Microsofts phi for example. But if a chinese company can make a better model and release it for free, then why use anything else?
I'm told by a friend that Bytedance is the leader right now, Baidu is about a year behind them.