Beyond Text Generation

ChatGPT is one example of a broader revolution. Models you can run locally are changing the tradeoff between convenience and control. Mistral has released models under open-source licenses, while Meta's Llama is better described as open-weight or source-available because its license includes use restrictions.

These models are also expanding beyond text into images and video. The pace of improvement is startling: capabilities that seemed five years away in 2022 arrived by 2024.