Comment by jauntywundrkind

Meta seems to - in my view correctly - understand that the risk to Facebook & other Meta properties is someone else walking away with great success, capturing the market for generative AI & being left out.

They don't need to make money, increase their value. They need to ward off existential risk. The best way to insure they aren't locked out from the future is to keep the future open. That's the only hope they have to maintain the locks they already have on much of the information technology world.