Am I the only one who finds this very sketchy? They had the whole license things, there's been some loud complaining by the HF CTO on social media that this model is not getting enough attention, and there are also press releases about how Falcon tops the "leaderboard":

https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/2023052900504...

I've never seen this kind of "strategy" with an ML model before. Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there...

It could be a question of not being used to see blatantly commercial advertising in places we're used to being about software. Feels like we're moving more towards the bro-ification of AI.