>Primarily due to Mark Zuckerbergs decision to give away a competitive LLM to open source in a classic “if I can’t make money from this model, I can still use it to take away money from my competition” move
Semantics though: He gave tens of thousands of salviating engineers on the internet the first competitive LLM to play with. Or left the door open for people to take it, if you prefer that narrative. The entire progress chain that has given us ollama, lamacpp and hundreds of innovations in a very short time was set off by that.
I loved it.