Google has been contacted for comment but it is understood that the document is not an official company memo. The document by the Google engineer was posted online by the consulting firm SemiAnalysis, which said it had “verified” its authenticity after it was shared on a public server on the Discord chat platform. The Competition and Markets Authority said sustaining AI innovation would require “open, competitive markets”.
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On Thursday the UK’s competition watchdog launched a review of the AI market, focusing on the foundation models behind generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard and the image generator Stable Diffusion. The Laion letter said such restrictions would “entrench large firms” and “hamper efforts to improve transparency, reduce competition, limit academic freedom, and drive investment in AI overseas”. In an open letter coordinated by the German research group Large-scale AI Open Network (Laion), the European parliament was told that any rules requiring developers to monitor or control use of their work “could make it impossible to release open-source AI in Europe”. However, the EU was warned this week that it must protect grassroots AI research in its planned AI bill or risk hampering the release of open source models. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties.
The engineer went on to warn that the company had “no secret sauce” and that “our best hope is to learn from and collaborate with what others are doing outside Google”, adding that people would not pay for a restricted AI model when “free, unrestricted alternatives are comparable in quality.” skip past newsletter promotion Open-source models are faster, more customisable, more private, and pound-for-pound more capable,” wrote the Google worker. “While our models still hold a slight edge in terms of quality, the gap is closing astonishingly quickly. By contrast, Chat GPT and Google’s Bard chatbot do not share make their underlying models available to the public. The document also cited websites filled with open-source visual art generation models. Since Meta’s LLaMA model became widely available, the document added, the barrier to entry for working on AI models has dropped “from the total output of a major research organization to one person, an evening, and a beefy laptop”. The Google engineer said open-source AI developers were “already lapping us”, citing examples including tools based on a large language model developed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which was made available by the company on a “noncommercial” and case-by-case basis in February but leaked online shortly after.
Historical examples of open-source work include the Linux operating system and LibreOffice, an alternative to Microsoft Office. Open-source technology developers are not proprietorial and release their work for anyone to use, improve or adapt as they see fit. The engineer went on to state that the “third faction” posing a competitive threat to Google and OpenAI was the open-source community. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch,” the engineer wrote. “The uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI.
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