It is reported that Meta will join OpenAI and Google in open-source AI projects to accelerate the march towards AGI or artificial general intelligence. It is very encouraging to know this.

This collaboration will pool the resources, talent and data together facilitating the rapid strides to the goal. There could be faster breakthroughs. It will foster public trust in AI development. Open sourcing will democratize the effort, even individuals and startups could benefit from it.

Of course, there are issues of the loss of IP or intellectual property. There are further issues of coordination, as three titans are coming together. There could be ethical issues, say misuse of the powerful AI technologies.