It’s not altruism. Companies like Meta and Google made their fortunes by processing data and curating it for their audience.
These open source models will be used in all sorts of applications and therefore Meta will continue to shape society with them. It also makes it nearly impossible for some startup to raise money to compete since these models are hard to compete with.
“Commoditize your complement” as Joel Spolsky calls it.
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