Comment by andrewstuart
16 hours ago
Free and open LLMs will be compelling to many of users that cannot or do not want to use online services.
It’s good that a large company like Meta seems to be pushing it forward with openllama 3.2.
Open, quality LLMs must lead to some tense discussions at OpenAI and Anthropic about whether they should be open or closed.
OpenAI Whisper is open source and it’s extremely good although it appeared to me the online version is much faster.
Likely not tense as it seems pretty clear where everyone stands on this. OpenAI and Anthropic are likely having conversations along the lines of 'move faster and build the moat!' while Meta is having a conversation along the lines of 'move faster and destroy the moat!'
It's not that Meta has anything against moats, it's just that they've seen how it works when they try to build their moat on top of someone else's (i.e. Apple and Google re: mobile) and it didn't work out too well.
Also the EU is far more aggressive and opinionated about what they want to see in the market than during the smartphone era. And this is spreading across the world.
So being committed to an open, standards-based strategy is an easy way for them to avoid most of the risks.
So they’re trying to be what Android is to the iPhone?
Precisely, and that extends to their XR ambitions as well: https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-horizon-os-open-hardwar...