In this case the market basically validated itself. Companies are already using Llama for production workloads. It is offered as a first class LLM option in AWS

In this case the market basically validated itself. Companies are already using Llama for production workloads. It is offered as a first class LLM option in AWS, Azure, GCP and all other major hosting providers. Meta may have been getting marginal licensing fees out of it but now wants a bigger piece of the pie.