Money talks.
And Open Source has none.
And Open Source has none.
They come from big businesses who see open source as the most effective way of reaching their goals, and as more of the tech filters out around the world, that will continue to be the case even if regulation makes that less useful in some juriadictions, making both open source in those jurisidctions and the firms that see their benefit in it less competitive.
I think people need to think really hard about what those goals are.
Is it to defeat regulation? To destroy their competitors? Retain talent? Sell their non-free-and-better models?
People don’t just hand millions of dollars out on the street corner.
There’s always a catch.
…and the people using llama and falcon, etc. and enjoying how great it is are being blinded by the shiny toys and not really, imo, thinking about what it means, or how they’re playing someone else’s game.
It’s extremely naive.
Stolen/leaked weights? :).
> big businesses who see open source as the most effective way of reaching their goals
That is the opposite of open source winning, though. Especially with everything becoming a service - SaaS is the ultimate killer of all that open source was supposed to bring to people. That SaaS is thoroughly built on open source - that's just adding an insult to injury.