> Ultimately though, these are real effects - the reasons why the actions were taken may control the framing (brilliant strategists vs accident genius vs desper

> Ultimately though, these are real effects - the reasons why the actions were taken may control the framing (brilliant strategists vs accident genius vs desperate cornered CEO), I am not sure that framing matters all that much. Seems to me the state of mind of leadership is pretty crucial in knowing what the future of these models will be. If the strategy is to release interesting-but-not-business-relevant R&D results as a reputation-building/recruiting tool, we might expect other models in the future, but no big effort to maintain models after release, and models that make a big competitive advantage to be kept secret. If the high level strategy is to enable ML content creation so you can sell ads alongside it, we might expect Facebook to adopt friendly policies towards such content. If the strategy is to gain investor confidence about the future of the company, we might think after their reputation is established, flashy demos of closed models will serve just as well as open models. If the strategy is to mess up Google's revenue streams with for no particular benefit to Meta, it's hard to know what else we'd expect - or if peace could break out and their strategy might change completely.