Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-12-06 09:49:
I've been saying for some time that GTALUG badly needs a serious conversation on scope and focus.
This evening's meeting feels, in retrospect, quite fruitful in this regard.
We now need to be advocates for openness in the cloud and AI.
And on this topic, I'd like to drop a mention of the newest Hot Thing™ in AI: Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI et al: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/new-french-ai-model-m...
That means we're closer to having a ChatGPT-3.5-level AI assistant that can run freely and locally on our devices, given the right implementation.
ArsTechnica user 4qu4rius made a comment with a link to a blog post supposedly from Google AI devs, saying:
We’ve done a lot of looking over our shoulders at OpenAI. Who will cross the next milestone? What will the next move be?
But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch.
I’m talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they are lapping us.
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/new-french-ai-model-makes-waves-by-matching-gpt-3-5-on-benchmarks/?comments=1&post=42429450) So, interesting times where only 54 weeks ago, OpenAI devs shocked the world with the release of ChatGPT 3.x, and now devs in the field are being shocked by open sourced (Apache licensed) AIs. rb