[mullingitover]

> None of the big American companies want to release a leading edge model as open source because this would drive the price of inference to $0

Meta/Llama: "What am I, chopped liver?"

I thought the thing keeping inference above $0 was the hardware, and even if that were free there's still the tyranny of the Landauer Limit.

[sofixa]

When was the last Llama release? Meta have abandoned it and reportedly they've had a shift in their AI strategy.

[nradov]

Meta Llama is free for many uses but it doesn't even remotely meet the definition of "open source".

[h8hawk]

They are useless and outdated by today standards.