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That’s interesting. I tend to lump FB, Amazon, Google, and MS in my head when thinking about the tech giants, but you’re right, FB is the only one of those not
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That’s interesting. I tend to lump FB, Amazon, Google, and MS in my head when thinking about the tech giants, but you’re right, FB is the only one of those not offering a commercial platform. For them, building out the capabilities of the LLMs is something to be done in the open with community involvement, because they’re not going to monetize the models themselves.
They’re also getting a fantastic amount of press from all this, which is good for attracting talent and helping improve their image, at least among the nerd set.
- vladms 3y agoDepends what you mean by platform and depends what you mean by FB. If by FB you mean Meta, they have also https://www.workplace.com/ https://www.workplace.com/ (which is like an internal facebook), instagram, whatsapp and some others. Integration of LLMs technology in those "platform" might give them some advantage.
- roughly 3y agoRight, but they’re not competing directly on offering the LLM - they benefit from having a better LLM as a feature, but their value add is elsewhere in the product.
- basch 3y agoI'm in the camp that its a mistake for Meta to not be competing in the commercial compute space. wrote about and diagramed it here - https://telegra.ph/Facebook-Social-Services-FbSS-a-missed-opportunity-02-03 https://telegra.ph/Facebook-Social-Services-FbSS-a-missed-op...
- CuriouslyC 3y agoMeta absolutely could not overcome the barriers to entry and technical mismatch for any sort of traditional IAS style product, and it would be foolish for them to try. They might be able to pull off some sort of next generation Heroku style service aimed at smaller shops with built in facebook integration and authn/z management, but that's tangential.
- oceanplexian 3y agoFB is unlike the other BigTech(tm) since Zuck never sold out and has a controlling equity stake. Amazon, Google, and MS are all controlled by and beholden to institutional investors. FB can release these for no other reason than Zuck’s ego or desire to kill OpenAI. Same deal as him going off on a tangent with the Metaverse thing.
- boppo1 3y agoWonder why Zuck particularly wants to kill OpenAI instead of increasing revenue with a new product offering.
- sroussey 3y agoThey could always spin it out as a separate company.
- p1esk 3y agoGiven that OpenAI finished training GPT4 a year ago, and no models today (including these) can beat it, I highly doubt anyone is capable of killing Open AI in the near future. I’m guessing by the time GPT5 is out, someone will finally catch up with GPT4.
- mupuff1234 3y agoLarry and Sergey still control majority of voting power from what I recall.