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It rings a bit false when juxtaposed with their $40b spend on the Metaverse…where was the savvy leveraging of the open source community then?

Meanwhile Meta’s competitors commoditise and glean profits from actually-SOTA LLM offerings.

In any case, their hypothesis is testable: which open source innovations from Llama1/2 informed Llama3?

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> In any case, their hypothesis is testable: which open source innovations from Llama1/2 informed Llama3?

I am not sure, but I agree that it is definitely testable.

If I had to guess/answer, I would argue that the open source contributions to Pytorch have a downstream contribution to the performance, and maybe the preparation and release of the models required an amount of polish and QA that would otherwise not have been there.

The leverage with the Metaverse was eventually users were supposed to create content which in turn makes the product better and brings more users.

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