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The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says

The Register · Lindsay Clark · last updated

The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.

Despite the hype around LLM builders — OpenAI sucked in $40 billion in capital at a nominal $300 billion valuation in February — he predicts the market will soon become commoditized for application builders wanting to plug-and-play their word juggling capabilities, with open source models likely to play a central role.

 

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