[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