Current ~70B models like LLAMA 2 70B are on par wih ChatGPT 3.5. The best smaller models can appear on par at first glance, but they hallucinate at a much higher rate and lack knowledge of the world. GPT 4 ‘gets’ things at a deeper level and no open source model is even close.
A year is a good timeframe to evaluate things: the rest of the world seems to lag behind OpenAI by around 12-18 months, at least with LLMs and image generation.
On the other hand open source tech usually has additional features for controlling output that OpenAI never bothers to implement, like llama.cpp’s grammars or ControlNet. So in that sense open source is usually ahead of OpenAI in terms of customizability.
A year is a good timeframe to evaluate things: the rest of the world seems to lag behind OpenAI by around 12-18 months, at least with LLMs and image generation.
On the other hand open source tech usually has additional features for controlling output that OpenAI never bothers to implement, like llama.cpp’s grammars or ControlNet. So in that sense open source is usually ahead of OpenAI in terms of customizability.