Why are big tech companies open sourcing AI models. What do they hope to gain? Unlike in case of Linux and Linux foundation, these corporations are for profit and it takes an unusually large sums of money to train these models?
The following reasons:<p>1. To not pay for fully closed-source models and have it close to free.<p>2. It makes it possible for intelligence at the cost of less than $500, significantly less than $50k for a writer and much less than $250k for a SWE.<p>3. Have it local and private.<p>The race to zero for intelligence will be accelerated and will affect everyone. If we all know that "AGI" is a scam, then at least it should be given to not one single company and should not be re-defined to mean something else.
It’s just Meta and their goal is to not look like they’re behind and to deny other tech companies a profit margin by just offering it for free, since they don’t have a real way to monetize it directly.<p>Also these aren’t open source, just open weights. AI2 is the only real open source model that’s well known<p><a href="https://allenai.org/olmo" rel="nofollow">https://allenai.org/olmo</a>