100%. This kind of announcement is for the street. Investors need to be reassured that Meta is keeping up with the cool AI stuff over at Google and Microsoft. A

100%. This kind of announcement is for the street. Investors need to be reassured that Meta is keeping up with the cool AI stuff over at Google and Microsoft. A release like this will cause a flurry of downstream news coverage. I’m sure they are hoping that the model will be picked up by researchers doing interesting things who might further generate good coverage. And, yes, it fills the moat.