After the 'metaverse' stuff flopped, desperate to spend their money on some other thing that might be The Future(TM)? Arguably this would be kind of rational b

After the 'metaverse' stuff flopped, desperate to spend their money on some other thing that might be The Future(TM)? Arguably this would be kind of rational behaviour for them even if they thought that LLM stuff had a low chance of being the next thing; they have lots and lots of money, and lots of revenue, so one strategy would be just to latch on to every new fad, and then if one is a real thing they don't get left behind (and if it's not, well, they can afford it). My suspicion is that this is where most Big Tech interest in LLMs comes from; it's essentially risk management.