To paraphrase, Meta is not releasing open models out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it as part of their business strategy.
- They already have all the eyeballs.
- They want to be able to run the best model they can for those eyeballs.
- It doesn't make a difference to them whether others have a similar model or not. They don't care.
- Ergo, they release their weights, hoping someone can help them improve it. Which has happened: see quantization.
To paraphrase, Meta is not releasing open models out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it as part of their business strategy.
- They already have all the eyeballs.
- They want to be able to run the best model they can for those eyeballs.
- It doesn't make a difference to them whether others have a similar model or not. They don't care.
- Ergo, they release their weights, hoping someone can help them improve it. Which has happened: see quantization.