Valid question. But one thing is public and the other thing is (kinds of) private, so no they aren’t comparable. Besides, Meta open sourced their results, so in

Valid question. But one thing is public and the other thing is (kinds of) private, so no they aren’t comparable. Besides, Meta open sourced their results, so in my opinion they should deserve a better status, allow them to access resource and indemnity like libraries. Perhaps only if they spin off their AI research into a non-profit entity, but yeah open source is digital public good and deserve a special status.