AI development, full-scale three-way battle with MS and Google
US-Japan-European companies and major companies join hands
“Safety-Responsibility” Open AI Winner
Led by LeQuoqu, one of the top four AI scholars
Facebook’s parent company Meta and IBM launched the ‘AI Alliance’, an alliance to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) with about 50 global tech companies and universities. As a challenge to the two major AI technology companies, Open AI and Microsoft (MS), and Google, a three-way battle in the AI development competition has begun in earnest.
On the 5th (local time), the AI Alliance announced, “We are launching a global community for the development of open, safe, and responsible AI.” Led by Meta and IBM, 50 semiconductor (Intel, AMD) and information technology (IT, Dell, Sony, Softbank) companies, national organizations (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA), universities (New York University, Berkeley, University of Tokyo) and other companies in the U.S., Japan, and Europe It is an open AI development system alliance in which more than 80 organizations participate.
Their strategy is to speed up AI development by sharing technology against the closed Open AI-MS camp that does not disclose the development source code to the outside. Advocates of closed development are opposed to open development, saying, “If dangerous technologies are disclosed, they can be exploited by criminal organizations.”
In the AI Alliance, semiconductor companies such as Intel and AMD, NASA, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and SB Intuition, established by Softbank to build a Japanese-based LLM, were also listed as founding members. AMD, which is chasing Nvidia in the field of AI semiconductors, is known to be interested in building hardware using its chips. Muhammad bin Zayed AI University, established with oil money from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Singapore Agency for Technology and Science (A*STAR), and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai also joined the AI Alliance.
Yann LeQuoqu Mehta, chief AI scientist and professor at New York University, who is considered one of the top four AI scholars, also contributed significantly to the launch of the ‘AI Alliance’.
When OpenAI had just launched ChatGPT, Metaverse CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s interest was in Metaverse rather than AI. Professor LeQuot met Zuckerberg early this year and emphasized the need to catch up with Open AI. He also warned that if we don’t catch up now, “Instagram may disappear.”
According to the New York Times (NYT), at the time, Professor LeQuoq told Zuckerberg that in order to catch up with Open AI, an ‘open source’ method that discloses the source code of the technology, that is, an open development system, was needed. Only then will many researchers and developers around the world become interested in meta AI technology and the technology will be able to improve at a much faster rate. Zuckerberg agreed, saying, “You are right,” and eventually the ‘AI Alliance’ was born.
The AI Alliance, as if conscious of criticism that the open model could give criminal organizations an opportunity to develop AI, emphasized on this day, “We will work on developing safe and responsible AI.” The open issue is a key issue in the AI industry, along with the ethics controversy that arose following the dismissal of Open AI CEO Sam Altman. Not only regulators who are concerned about the destructive power of AI, but also developers OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all support closed development. On the other hand, development experts such as Professor LeQuot and Netscape founder Mark Andreessen said, “An AI monopoly by one or two companies is more dangerous. “There will be languages, countries, and classes that become marginalized,” he warns.
After the Open AI incident, many companies are showing interest in open methods due to concerns about excessive dependence on specific AI models. According to market research company IDC, global companies are expected to invest approximately $16 billion (approximately 21 trillion won) in generative AI solutions this year.
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Source: Donga
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