LLama-3 Knocks on the Door of GPT-4

🌎 In this week’s As the AI World Turns, we find Meta on the cusp of releasing the first open source AI model that could rival GPT-4.

The first two LLama 3 models published last week don’t quite rise to the level of top AI models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.

But the 400 billion parameter version Meta plans to release this summer could.

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Why does this matter?

It would mean that anyone anywhere in the world can build applications with all of the superpowers - and perhaps some that we’ve yet to discover - of the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini.

Some feel this creates national security concerns - that includes the US government which has been pulling out all the stops to prevent China from accessing the most powerful AI computer chips and models.

At MIT’s Forging the Future of Business event this week, storied tech investor (one of the first to pour millions into OpenAI) Vinod Khosla shared this opinion.

Not everyone agrees.

At the same event, renowned computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman said a few big tech players shouldn’t be the only ones with access to the best AI.

Meta and many others share the sentiment.

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Regardless of the debate, from the perspective of OpenAI and all of its rivals that are selling access to their closed AI models, the window to make substantial coin from provisioning this technology is closing.

But Microsoft, Meta and Google knew that day would come.

The smartest folks have been saying since Day One that the most money to be made here is from applications built on generative AI - not on the technology itself.

It’s fun to track the development of these mind boggling GenAI models in the early days given they haven't reached peak performance yet.

But soon enough, we’ll forget about all this and begin tracking the development of groundbreaking applications built on top of it.

Does anyone think about all the tech enabling the existence of the internet anymore? 

Nope - we talk about the innovative businesses built on it that couldn’t exist without it, like Amazon and Airbnb.

That’s where we’re headed…