- By Vikas Yadav
- Fri, 05 May 2023 05:39 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A SENIOR software engineer at Google penned a review of the search giant's position in the AI space. The official claimed that Google is losing the artificial intelligence game to researchers in the open-source groups that are innovating rapidly, Bloomberg reported.
Luke Sernau published the critique last month on Google's internal system. In the weeks gone by, it was widely shared by the employees, the report, citing an anonymous source reported. Later SemiAnalysis, a consulting firm, published the leaked document.
In the engineer's analysis, a third faction - Open Source that is silently on the rise is talked about. "We've done a lot of looking over our shoulders at OpenAI. Who will cross the next milestone? What will the next move be?" the leaked piece reads.
"But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren't positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we've been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch. I'm talking, of course, about open source," Sernau adds.
The real danger that Google would face will approach from open-source communities, where independent engineers are polishing superior models. It holds the potential to lock horns with the innovation of the top tech makers at a relatively lower cost, the report adds.
"We have no secret sauce," the author wrote. Further, the letter adds people won't pay for a relatively restricted model when a free alternative is available.
Moreover, an LLM model that was the brainchild of Meta leaked at the beginning of March. In turn, sparking a wave of generative AI innovations in the open-source space. Known as LLaMA, it is a smaller model than ChatGPT and Bard. However, it makes the model's manoeuvrability easy for independent actors.
Google is pressing hard to catch up with the AI innovations that its rivals like OpenAI and Microsoft are undertaking. For the unversed, Microsoft recently announced the Open Preview for users of AI-Powered Bing, among many other improvements in its AI buffet. Plus, ChatGPT is already compliant with the powerful GPT-4 tech.