Not of fan of the company for the social media but have to appreciate all the open sourcing. none of the other top labs release thier models like meta.
> none of the other top labs release thier models like meta
Don't basically all the "top labs" except Anthropic now have open weight models? And Zuckerberg said they were now going to be "careful about what we choose to open source" in the future, which is a shift from their previous rhetoric about "Open Source AI is the Path Forward".
They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they're deploying a classic strategy known as "Commoditize Your Complement"[1], to ward off threats from OpenAI and Anthropic. It's only a happy accident that the little guy benefits in this instance.
Facebook is a deeply scummy company[2] and their stranglehold on online advertising spend (along with Google) allows them to pour enormous funds into side bets like this.
Not even closely OK with facebook. But none of the other companies do this. And Mark has been open about it. I remember him saying in an interview the same very openly. Something oddly respectable about NOT sugar coating with good PR and marketing. Unlike OpenAI.
I spend years working on training these models. Inference is always the fruit. The effort going into getting the data is the most time consuming part. I am not a fan of meta from a long time. But open sourcing the weights help move the field in general. So I have to be thankful for that.
