[cubefox]

But why would a big model be released? LLaMA can't even begin to compete with GPT-4. Fine-tuning won't make it more intelligent. The only entity currently able to compete with OpenAI/Microsoft is Google with their planned Gemini model.

[Baeocystin]

…today. But with the amount of (justifiable, IMO) attention LLMs are now getting, I don't see how this won't change soon. And there's quite a bit of incentive for second- or third-tier companies to contribute to something that could kneecap the bigger players.