The open-source AI movement is experiencing significant growth and development by 2025, with models like Mistral, LLaMA, Mixtral, Falcon, and Qwen becoming essential in powering production systems and pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities.
The question arises whether open-source AI can compete with big tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, despite the trillion-dollar ecosystems they operate within.
Factors fueling the open-source AI boom include Meta's release of LLaMA 2 and LLaMA 3, which provided world-class base models for further optimization, as well as the surge in community-driven innovation from labs like Mistral, Together.ai, Cohere For AI, and EleutherAI.