Google’s senior software engineer Luke Sernausaid the company’s AI development is under threat by the open source community.
The engineer claimed that independent researchers in open source technology had made rapid and unpredictable strides in artificial intelligence technology. Luke Sernau published documentation on an in-house system in early April. Googledocument widely shared among its employees, May 4Shared by consulting firm SemiAnalysis in Silicon valleyHe started wandering around.
Sernau: Open Source Communities Are a Threat to Google
According to Sernau’s assessment, Google’s OpenAIis diverting attention from the rapid progress in open source technology.
In his document, Sernau wrote that Google is overly focused on tracking the progress of OpenAI. According to Sernau, as both companies struggled to outperform each other, open source technology has quietly moved forward, taking the lead in the AI race.
Known for investing in future-proof technologies, Google has played an important role in the development of existing AI-powered chatbots. However OpenAIhas emerged as a pioneer in the field of generative artificial intelligence, which includes software that can create its own images, text, and videos.
Sernau argued that open source communities pose a real threat to Google because engineers are developing models that rival the quality at big tech companies faster and at lower cost.
According to Sernau, these models are more customizable and more useful than Google’s own models. Sernau also worries that customers may not be willing to pay for high-quality technologies that are freely available in open source communities.
