Future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says

Future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says

: Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts

Why Open Source is Critical in the AI Era

As AI transforms software development, developers are quietly losing control over the tools they rely on. Core engineering workflows are increasingly shaped by opaque systems owned by a few dominant vendors whose priorities don’t always align with those of the developers and the organisations using them. Open source AI tools offer a compelling alternative, but faced with the tension between AI’s promise and the need for control, organisations ty…

The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says

Cheaper, open source LLMs will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterparts The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce. . . .

The “know-it-all” AI and the open source alternative

So, your friendly neighborhood AI, ChatGPT, decided it needs a better memory. Not just a few sticky notes about your preference for concise emails or the fact you’re mildly terrified of pigeons. Oh no. We’re talking total recall. Every chat, every query, every digital murmur you’ve ever shared with it can now be remembered. OpenAI, the architects of this digital elephant, announced this with the kind of fanfare usually reserved for a new smartph…