Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

needed to rethink policies if domestic firms were to lead ​in open-weight models, including on data use and distillation - a method that uses the outputs of a powerful AI system to ​train a smaller model ⁠that can handle some of the same tasks with far less computing power.barriers for open-source AI to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said more would follow soon.

Those controls are in the spotlight after Hugging Face, the AI coding collaboration hacked by a rogue OpenAI model, was forced to use a ​Chinese open-weight model to defend against the attack because closed-source models have curbs on cybersecurity use.