It’s so easy to be critical.
Ok; you play then.
What should they be doing?
If they don’t, who is going to invest in open AI models?
OpenAI? Ha!
Let’s say you’re in charge then. What’s your product strategy?
I personally think this is better than doing nothing, even if it isn’t perfect.
If they want to make money while "making the internet a better place" they should develop their own LLM alternative with competitive cloud prices to GPT while releasing the model to everyone.
If you tell me it's impossible to be competitive with GPT offering then they should not be wasting money on this endeavor
Have you run the 65B llama model? It’s shit. The refined 7B model is significantly better. The problem isn’t making a big model and open sourcing it.
Those already exist
Specially, bloom and llama.
Tooling around it and refinement tooling seems like it’s a pretty good investment right now.
“Make a GPT4” is an incredibly trivial and narrow view of this space.
Take that 30 million.
Split it into chunks of 10k.
Find random unaffiliated contributors to Firefox and give it to them. Promise another 10k for their next substantial contribution.
The implicit assumption here seems to be that Mozilla needs to exist and if Firefox can’t sustain that existence they need to pivot to something that will. Why? So Google can keep using them as a fig leaf for their browser monopoly? So Mitchell Baker can keep collecting $3 million per year? Because the blind squirrel might find a nut someday?
Maybe there’s a point where the remaining employees should just pack it up.