What it Takes to Make Open-Source AI Cheaper Than OpenAI; Microsoft Goes Multimodal

When Meta Platforms’ released its open-source Llama models earlier this year, the tech giant was praised for giving developers a free alternative to the expensive, bleeding-edge large-language models offered by proprietary LLM developers such as OpenAI. 

Turns out it’s not so simple.

In many cases, using open-source LLMs can actually be more costly than proprietary AI software from OpenAI and its ilk, as I discovered while researching this piece I published this morning. 

That’s because OpenAI and Meta are …

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