[nindalf]

The complement being the metaverse. You can’t handcraft the metaverse because it would be infeasible. If LLMs are a commodity that everyone has access to, then it can be done on the cheap.

Put another way - if OpenAI were the only game in town how much would they be charging for their product? They’re competing on price because competitors exist. Now imagine the price if a hypothetical high quality open source model existed that can customers can use for “free”.

That’s the future Meta wants. They weren’t getting rich selling shovels like cloud providers are, they want everyone digging. And everyone digs when the shovels are free.