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Meta is trying to devalue its upstart competitor openai. When openai was so far ahead in public perception, FB starts gaving away what they had spent oodles of money building in order to lessen openai's hype and stop their investors believing that the next great thing was elsewhere?

I think that's just them trying to limit what the others can get away with, as well as limiting the competition they have to deal with because the open source models end up as a baseline.

OpenAI etc have to reign in how much they abuse their lead because after some price point it becomes better to take the quality hit and use an open source model. Similarly, new competitors are forced to treat the Facebook models as a baseline, which increases their costs.

Commoditize your complement. I guess Meta sees AI more as something they use than something they offer.

it was the only way for Meta to even get into the conversation; if they had captured the mindshare like GPT did, you can be sure they wouldn't have open-sourced it