Meta has come under scrutiny from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for labelling its artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as its LLama family of large language models (LLM), as open-source. OSI head Stefano Maffulli has criticised Meta for creating confusion around the term, suggesting it undermines genuine open-source efforts, particularly as organisations like the European Commission aim to support technologies not controlled by specific companies. While Llama has garnered significant traction, being downloaded over 400 million times, it lacks full transparency typical of true open-source software, restricting user experimentation and adaptation. Other technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, have ceased using the term for partial openness following discussions with OSI.
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