Meta faced protests outside its San Francisco office against its strategy of publicly releasing AI models. Demonstrators are concerned that the open sourcing of model weights may lead to uncontrollable consequences. Meta's Chief Scientist, LeCun, countered that the open-source AI community is thriving. There are divisions in the industry regarding open and closed source; while open source can enhance transparency, it also poses risks. The definition of open source remains ambiguous, with different organizations having varied interpretations of 'open source AI.'

Weights & Biases has raised a $50 million investment to drive LLMOps work for generative AI large language models. LLMOps refers to the operations of effectively using and scaling generative AI large language models. Weights & Biases will continue to improve tools to meet user needs and feedback.