> If OpenAI and Meta decide they’re closing up shop, a boomtown could become a backwater. Strange how I read the same memo and came to the opposite conclusion

> If OpenAI and Meta decide they’re closing up shop, a boomtown could become a backwater. Strange how I read the same memo and came to the opposite conclusion. Handouts suggest some form of charity, but in the memo it is clear that there it is to the benefit of the business that open source can advance the technology at a fraction of the cost. Ie open source is saving these business millions of dollars and and months of research. There’s no handout here.