Exactly! It seems pretty clear that someone will reproduce llama and alpaca with a commercially viable model within the next few months to a year at the longest

Exactly! It seems pretty clear that someone will reproduce llama and alpaca with a commercially viable model within the next few months to a year at the longest. So if you want to build something based on top of this technology, it makes sense to build it on top of llama/alpaca internally, and then swap it out with something commercially licensed when it’s available. Then you’ve got a huge head start on anyone who is waiting for the stars to align before they start trying to build something at all.