CX Daily: China Debates Pros and Cons of Open-Source AI Models

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In China’s tech scene, one of the great debates over AI is whether firms like Baidu and Alibaba should make their LLMs open source. Photo: VCG

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In Depth: China debates pros and cons of open-source AI models

When discussing the development of large language models (LLMs) Zhou Hongyi, CEO of Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 Security Technology Inc., dismissed claims that open-source LLMs are inferior to closed-source ones, calling such assertions “nonsense.”

Zhou’s comments, which were delivered during the 27th Harvard College China Forum in April, were widely seen as a response to Baidu Inc.’s CEO Robin Li, who had previously said that it did not make sense for LLMs to be open-source and that closed-source LLMs would gain an expanding edge in capabilities as technology advances.