A look at Meta's AI strategy, which is a bet that open sourcing the tech will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly
Wall Street Journal : Threads: @jjackyliang . Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . X: @hoofnagle , @canadakaz , @ylecun , and @ylecun Threads: Jacky Liang / @jjackyliang : no tech company ever “open sources” out of altruism, i'll tell you that Bluesky: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : It's a interesting strategy but there are more ‘open source’ models than Meta' s and ones that are closer to actually being open source [embedded post] X: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : “Behind the contrarian strategy is a bet that making Silicon Valley's hottest new technology free will drive down competitors' prices and spread Meta's version of AI more broadly, giving Zuckerberg more control over the way people interact with machines in the future.” That's a Kaz Nejatian / @canadakaz : Meta's commitment to open source projects needs to be applauded. Much of tech industry is standing on Meta's shoulders. Yann LeCun / @ylecun : Unsurprisingly, majority of tweeps want “open source AGI to win” (whatever you mean by “open source”, “AGI”, and “win"). Meta is a key contributor to Team Open Source. Yann LeCun / @ylecun : @spectate_or Apple is famously secretive, despite recent forays into publications and open sourcing. Amazon has not been very open. Google (G-Brain) opened up considerably after the creation of FAIR (they would have lost many top people otherwise) but has been clamming up recently. The