[ntonozzi]

Why do people think that Meta released their model in order to get open source coders to improve their models? They will get absolutely no competitive advantage from this. Every other team developing a closed source LLM can easily copy the innovations that open source coders have applied to Llama on their own, closed source models.

There's no advantage here. Meta just spent $10 million on releasing fun chaos into the world and increasing their recruiting power.

[oceanplexian]

Meta's most valuable asset is their users, not their technology, so giving away technology is incidental to them. It's not the UI or superior features that makes Meta, Instagram, etc such powerful platforms, it's the network effect.

ChatGPT was the fastest growing app in history, leaders at Meta (The ones who do M&A, strategy, etc) probably raised an eyebrow. They don't really give a crap about some stupid talking chatbot, but OpenAI getting smart and building a Social Network around millions of brand new users could be an existential problem for them. When Lecun wanted to OSS it they were probably like, sure, we can kill a few birds with one stone. If LLMs are a commodity that stops OpenAI and Google before they even get off the ground.

[mliker]

I like how you completely hallucinated a story about Meta, Lecun, and ChatGPT

[sebzim4500]

Yeah, but some of the innovations being made at OpenAI will be replicated by the open source community, and Meta can use those for free.

They aren't looking to create a technological edge themselves, they want to remove the edge that OpenAI has so that they can win using their user count/brand recognition/etc.

[Zemtomo]

I'm also not following this

I believe it's more to make sure that others also continue to share their research.

Or also a general genuine good mindset of people involved in those groups.