The open-source AI race has heated up stateside, just days after China’s DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley with its shoestring-budget models.
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) recently released a new model it claims can beat or hold its own with DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4o across several benchmarks. The release is a larger version of the model that the nonprofit lab unveiled last November with nearly six times the number of parameters (405 billion vs. 70 billion).
At a moment when DeepSeek has thrust open-source AI into the spotlight, AI2 hopes that the model will demonstrate that US-based open-source companies are also chipping away at the performance gap between open and closed models.
“We only have a really, really limited number of open-source US-based models, like…