Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative


A keyboard is seen reflected on a computer screen displaying the website of ChatGPT an AI chatbot from OpenAI in this illustration picture taken February 8 2023. REUTERSFlorence LoIllustration

A keyboard is seen reflected on a computer screen displaying the website of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot from OpenAI, in this illustration picture taken February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration

(Reuters) - Databricks, a San Francisco-based startup last valued at $38 billion, on Friday released open-source code that it said companies could use to create their own chatbots along the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The code is an AI model, an algorithm that is trained on sets of data and can then learn from new data to perform a variety of tasks.

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