March 5, 2025
Open LLMs are Necessary For Current Private Adaptations and Outperform Their Closed Alternatives [Paper Reflection]
Closed Large Language Models (LLMs), which are proprietary and accessible only via APIs, have dominated the LLM space since around 2022 due to their high performance and versatility. However, Open LLMs have made substantial progress, narrowing the performance gap with their Closed LLM counterparts. Open LLMs are models whose architecture and parameters are publicly available for use, modification, and distribution. For instance, while Closed LLMs like Anthropic’s Claude (released in March 2023) and OpenAI’s GPT-4 (released in March 2023) set new benchmarks upon their launches, the Open LLM Llama 3 released by Meta in April 2024 and DeepSeek-R1 released in