I was not expecting for Apple to be releasing any open source generative ai product. So the big players in the download it yourself gang are Meta & Apple? I don't think anyone would have taken that bet when OpenAI blew up.
Meta is the real wildcard here. They're betting on "commoditize your compliment" and hoping by making GenAI training nearly free (by doing it for you) that none of their competitors can use GenAI models to gain an advantage over them.
Even Meta's ML research has a history of open sourcing everything, hello PyTorch. So Llama is just a continuation
But you're right they do have a good history of open source, and they should get credit for that.
They don't want to be left behind with a "everyone with an Nvidia GPU can play" world. Open-source is the best counter to that right now.