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Metas backing itself into a corner with its admirable commitment to open source. Unfortunately, at some point when they decide to monetize their billions spent and try to release a closed source model, the level of vitriol they will deal with will be an order of magnitude above what even OpenAI is experiencing. I don’t think they realize that!

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Meta's commitment to Open Source is well under calculation.

OCP is a way to rally lower-tier vendors to form a semi-alliance to keep up with super-gorilla like AWS & Google.

LLaMA has already gained much more than its cost (look at the stock price, and the open source ecosystem built surrounding LLaMA, and Google's open source Gemma models which is a proof of Meta's success).

IMHO, Meta's Open Source strategy already covered at least 5 years in prospect. That's enough to finesse a 180 degree turn around if necessary (i.e., from open source to close source)

The general public doesn’t care. Only developers.

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