Key Points
In November, a little-known startup from Beijing, 01.AI, released its own open source model that outperforms Llama 2 and scores near the top of many leaderboards used to compare the power of AI models...
Within a few days of its release 01.AIs model, Yi-34B, rocketed to the top spot on a ranking maintained by startup Hugging Face, which compares the abilities of AI language models across various standard benchmarks for automated intelligence..
OpenAI, Google, and most other AI companies tightly control their technology, but 01.AI is giving away its AI models in hopes of inspiring a loyal developer base that helps it hatch some killer AI apps. 01.AI, founded in June of last year, has raised $200 million in investment from Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba and others and is valued at over $1 billion, according to Pitchbook...
Like all leading language models, 01.AIs is based on the transformer architecture first developed by Google researchers in 2017, and the Chinese company derived that component from Llama 2. Anita Huang, a spokeswoman for 01.AI, says a legal expert consulted by the company said that Yi-34B is not subject to Llama 2s license..
Jeffrey Ding, an assistant professor at George Washington University who studies Chinas AI scene, says that although Chinese researchers have released dozens of large language models, the industry as a whole still lags behind the US...
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