> Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because the leaked model was theirs, they have effectively garnered an entire planet’s worth of free labor. Since most open source innovation is happening on top of their architecture, there is nothing stopping them from directly incorporating it into their products.
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Some noteworthy quotes that signal the thought process at Meta FAIR and more broadly
We’re just playing a different game on the infrastructure than companies like Google or Microsoft or Amazon
We would aspire to and hope to make even more open than that. So, we’ll need to figure out a way to do that.
...lead us to do more work in terms of open sourcing, some of the lower level models and tools
Open sourcing low level tools make the way we run all this infrastructure more efficient over time.
On PyTorch: It’s generally been very valuable for us to provide that because now all of the best developers across the industry are using tools that we’re also using internally.
I would expect us to be pushing and helping to build out an open ecosystem.
One interesting related point to this is Zuck's comments on Meta's AI strategy during their earnings call: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1373nhq/di...
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""" Some noteworthy quotes that signal the thought process at Meta FAIR and more broadly
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