SWOT Analysis of Open-Source Language Models
Zeynep Örpek, Büşra Tural, Zeynep Destan · 2024
Language models have become a rapidly developing and highly popular innovation area in the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) in recent years, and a significant part of this development has accelerated with the use of open-source language models. Open-source language models have increased their capacity to learn the complex structure of the language by being trained with large data sets, and thus have enabled more effective solutions to be produced in many areas. Open-source language models are language models that are open to use with their source code and model features, and that anyone can access, use, modify, and develop on. Their accessibility has made them widespread rapidly. Especially large language models such as GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) and BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) have been trained and have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to understand texts, answer questions, and even produce content. With these capabilities, they have caused artificial intelligence-based solutions to become widespread rapidly in many industries. They have begun to be used in a wide range of areas, from customer service to content creation processes, from automatic translation systems to data analysis. Especially with the spread of open-source language models, small businesses and independent developers have also become able to benefit from this technology. Participation in the innovation process has increased. However, despite the strong potential of open-source language models, this technology needs to be managed carefully and responsibly considering its weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats. In this study, the current status of this technology and the challenges it may face in the future are evaluated by conducting a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of open-source language models.