Unlocking Enterprise Innovation: Navigating the Open Model Ecosystem

This IDC Perspective highlights the rapid growth and adoption of open models in generative AI (GenAI), emphasizing their benefits such as transparency, flexibility, and cost effectiveness. This document provides insights and recommendations for organizations to effectively select and deploy open models, considering factors such as performance, cost, and compliance."The open model ecosystem is complex, but it can be navigated by taking a systematic and iterative approach to model selection, beginning with identifying a specific use case and the key relevant model evaluation criteria," says Michele Rosen, research manager, Open GenAI, LLMs, and the Evolving Open Source Ecosystem.