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October 25, 2024

TO ACCELERATE TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT IN CRITICAL SECTORS

- UMA KANNAN

OPEN-SOURCE MODELS

PEN-source artificial intelligence models are creating a lot of buzz among AI communities across the world. Tech giants are investing heavily across these models as the latter have the potential to accelerate transformation in areas such as agriculture, education, health, among others.

Meta's recent AI Summit in Bengaluru saw participation of the thriving developer ecosystem and experts talking about open-source innovation and models. Meta's models including Llama 3.1, 3.2 were discussed as they can be deployed anywhere. These are a collection of large language models (LLMs) that are pre-trained and developers can create AI solutions in order to address many local challenges across sectors. These are integrated into apps such as WhatsApp.

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