What are ‘open’ AI models?

China is a proponent of open source and open weight models as it increasingly becomes an AI rival to the US. Other major economies, including Germany, France and India, are also encouraging the adoption of open models.

Companies such as ServiceNow and RWS have deployed dozens of open-source models (in addition to proprietary models) that specialize in specific tasks,. “We shouldn’t be afraid to adopt a multi-vendor approach if we think that we can get value from different AI tools rather than risk the lock-in of having a single AI tool,” said Max Goss, research director at Gartner.

With physical operations, such as in a vehicle or on-site, decisions need to happen in milliseconds — sometimes directly on the device. That favors models that are purpose-built, efficient, and able to run close to where the data is generated, said Praveen Murugesan, vice president of engineering at Samsara.

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