An equally plausible frame is that once a technology becomes replicated across several companies, it makes sense to open source it since the marginal competitiv

An equally plausible frame is that once a technology becomes replicated across several companies, it makes sense to open source it since the marginal competitive advantage are the possible resultant external network effects. I don't know if that's the right way to think about the open sourcing of large language models. I just think we really can't read too much into such releases regarding their motivation.