> 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
I disagree. The model itself is released under GPL3 and no longer "theirs" (Google or OpenAI can use it). And Meta probably has a zoo of such models and I didn't see them use any of the work the community did.
I don't think they "released" LLaMA weights strategically to weaken OpenAI (their overall strategy and market analysis would probably too inert to predict the open source explosion). It probably was a decision by a smaller research team within the company and approved by uninformed executive. Meta could have stepped up and nurtured this small-LLM renaissance, they opted for DMCA hammer instead.
I disagree. The model itself is released under GPL3 and no longer "theirs" (Google or OpenAI can use it). And Meta probably has a zoo of such models and I didn't see them use any of the work the community did.
I don't think they "released" LLaMA weights strategically to weaken OpenAI (their overall strategy and market analysis would probably too inert to predict the open source explosion). It probably was a decision by a smaller research team within the company and approved by uninformed executive. Meta could have stepped up and nurtured this small-LLM renaissance, they opted for DMCA hammer instead.