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Disclaimer: I do not work at Meta, but I work at a large tech company which competes with them. I don't work in AI, although if my VP asks don't tell them I sai

Disclaimer: I do not work at Meta, but I work at a large tech company which competes with them. I don't work in AI, although if my VP asks don't tell them I said that or they might lay me off. Multiple of their major competitors/other large tech companies are trying to monetize LLMs. OpenAI maneuvering an early lead into a dominant position would be another potential major competitor. If releasing these models slows or hurts them that is in and itself a benefit.

michaelt 3y ago
Why? What benefit is there to grabbing market share from your competitors... in a business you don't even want to be in? By that logic you could justify any bizarre business decision. Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook? Should Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each launch a phone?
- Filligree 3y ago
  > Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook? I mean, Google did launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook. It was a whole thing. It was even a really nice system, eventually.
  - wanderingstan 3y ago
    And it turned out that Facebook had quite a moat with network effects. OpenAI doesn’t have such a moat, which may be what Meta is wanting to expose.
    - esafak 3y ago
      Google botched the launch, and they never nurture products after launch anyway. Google+ could have been more successful.
  - zaat 3y ago
    I enjoyed using Google plus more than any other social network, and managed to create new connections and/or have standard, authentic, real conversations with people I didn't know, most of them ordinary people with shared interests that I would probably wouldn't meet otherwise, some of them are people I can't believe I could connect with directly in any other way - newspapers and news sites editors, major SDK developers. And even with Kevin Kelly.
- Arainach 3y ago
  >Should Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each launch a phone? * https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-phone-5081980 https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-p... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
- Arainach 3y ago
  Who says they don't want to be in the market? Facebook has one product. Their income is entirely determined by ads on social media. That's a perilous position subject to being disrupted. Meta desperately wants to diversify its product offerings - that's why they've been throwing so much at VR.

michaelt 3y ago

Why? What benefit is there to grabbing market share from your competitors... in a business you don't even want to be in? By that logic you could justify any bizarre business decision. Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook? Should Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each launch a phone?

Filligree 3y ago
> Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook? I mean, Google did launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook. It was a whole thing. It was even a really nice system, eventually.
- wanderingstan 3y ago
  And it turned out that Facebook had quite a moat with network effects. OpenAI doesn’t have such a moat, which may be what Meta is wanting to expose.
  - esafak 3y ago
    Google botched the launch, and they never nurture products after launch anyway. Google+ could have been more successful.
- zaat 3y ago
  I enjoyed using Google plus more than any other social network, and managed to create new connections and/or have standard, authentic, real conversations with people I didn't know, most of them ordinary people with shared interests that I would probably wouldn't meet otherwise, some of them are people I can't believe I could connect with directly in any other way - newspapers and news sites editors, major SDK developers. And even with Kevin Kelly.
Arainach 3y ago
>Should Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft each launch a phone? * https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-phone-5081980 https://www.lifewire.com/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-p... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
Arainach 3y ago
Who says they don't want to be in the market? Facebook has one product. Their income is entirely determined by ads on social media. That's a perilous position subject to being disrupted. Meta desperately wants to diversify its product offerings - that's why they've been throwing so much at VR.