Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
“OpenAI wants to change its status while retaining all of the benefits that enabled it to reach the point it has today,” Meta argues.
I'm off the same opinion, but why does Meta give a shit?
They don’t want to pay for-profit prices?
They don’t use OpenAI at all.
Meta has some heavy sins, but they’ve pushed ‘open’ ML a long time. They developed, and continue to fund PyTorch, and they basically standardized the open LLM architecture with Llama to the point literally everyone publishing weights uses it almost unmodified now, just to name two examples.
They also have a commercial interest in their open weight model ecosystem succeeding over OpenAI’s completely closed models and research. And TBH they have a good shot, as OpenAI really seems to have stagnated.
Also, Altman is a straight up con artist. Like, more than most even realize. I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook employees hate him.
If Open AI becomes for-profit, it will have more resources to finance itself. It is currently in a similar situation to Mozilla, and it is not the first case, there have been several.
One example was Mastercard, but in the process it created a foundation with the same name and it is also very rich. Open AI will probably follow a similar path
Also, Llama is not open source according to the OSI
They have Meta AI baked into their apps now and are building a 10 Billion dollar AI facility in Louisiana that they want to use Nuclear Power to run.
So I'm guessing the plan is to hurt the competition that is already ahead of them and hopefully get enough time to buy them out or pass them.
We the consumer protection we get in the US is the zuck
You know things are bad when Zuckerberg is looking like the good guy.
That's bizarre
It seems normal to me that a company takes questionable actions to avoid more competition.
It seems fit for them to get burned because of it
