Can Open Source AI Compete with Big Tech? A Look at TruthGPT, RedPajama and MiniGPT

Some argue that open source AI is the key to making AI's benefits to the entire world, as well as making AI safer. Others think that open source can multiply risks. With a slate of new projects being announced this week, the conversation is heating up. Discussed in this episode: Elon Musk's planned TruthGPT  Dolly 2.0, an open source LLM based on the EleutherAI pythia model built by Databricks RedPajama, an open source proxy of Facebook/Meta's LLaMA, from Together  MiniGPT, an open source AI model that can extract information from images  Stable Diffusion XL, the latest open source text-to-image model from Stability AI