As a business strategy I would see it as preventing themselves from being hemmed in from the market leaders. By open sourcing and raising the bar for commodity

As a business strategy I would see it as preventing themselves from being hemmed in from the market leaders. By open sourcing and raising the bar for commodity AI, they get to crowd source improvement to their models and techniques to get ahead in their own uses by co-opting open source improvement. I would say to sage this is working amazingly well - the amount of interest around open source models from meta is immense. I also think, as do I, the majority of uses in the future will be from fine tuned RAG capable models embedded in devices, not pangalactic planet sized computers running septillion parameter models. Llamacpp is a perfect illustration of where that’s working. We followed a similar model under more duress at Netscape. When you use Firefox that’s the fruit of that effort. It didn’t save Netscape, but Meta has a better and more diversified revenue base.