Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI – the firm behind the widely popular ChatGPT. However, he has recently expressed his disappointment with the company, Tweeting that it has become a “closed source, maximum-profit” venture. This change goes against the core values of OpenAI which was founded as an open source, non-profit company to challenge Google. Musk’s critique, among many others from the open-source and industry communities, has putOpenAI under scrutiny for taking advantage of the open-source system without giving back.
In an attempt to get back in the good graces of the open-source community, OpenAI released its “Consistency Models” as open source software. With this, OpenAI is aiming to grow the community by providing users the opportunity to evaluate the performance of the AI models, share feedback and work together on future projects.
Outside of Consistency Models, OpenAI has already open sourced quite a few models and tools. Among them are Whisper – a multilingual speech recognition system, DALL-E – a deep-learning model for generating digital images from natural language descriptions, Spinning Up – an educational resource for learning deep reinforcement learning and CLIP – a machine learning model for natural language processing and image recognition. OpenAI also has Jukebox, a generative music-producing model and Point-E, an optimized variant of its language model GPT-3, used in conversational AI applications.
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory, whose primary mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is pioneering and steared by the beliefs that the biggest innovations come from the most open collaboration, and that benchmarks can empower researchers by providing centers of comparison to develop better technologies. OpenAI was co-founded by tech icon Elon Musk, who has taken a critical stance on the company’s success under Microsoft’s control, maintaining that it is straying from its open-source principles.
