Facebook will make its artificial intelligence technology freely available to the public to use for research and building new moneymaking products, doubling down on an “open source” approach to the tech that has garnered both praise and criticism.
— will be available to anyone to use for free, either downloaded directly from the company or accessed through cloud providers including Microsoft, Amazon and AI start-up Hugging Face. Making it open source means companies and researchers can see the underlying code, modifying it for their own uses or porting it directly into products of their own.
“Meta has sort of been in the shadow, so this gives Meta a chance to at least be a player,” said Bhaskar Chakravorti dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. “The irony here is that this was pretty much the model that Google used with its Android operating system when it was trying to play catch up with the Apple IOS.”Like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, Facebook has invested huge amounts of money in AI over many years.
But critics say open sourced AI models could lead to the technology being misused. Earlier this year, Meta released Llama to a select group of researchers only for the model to be leaked and later used for applications ranging from drug discovery to. Last month, Sens.
“If I’m a regulator,” Chakravorti, the Tufts business dean said, “I’m looking at this and I’m wondering ‘is the genie being let out of the bottle here?’”
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