Probably not, Zuck is announcing it.
Today we're releasing a new state-of-the-art AI large language model called LLaMA designed to help researchers advance their work. LLMs have shown a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material, and more complicated tasks like solving math theorems or predicting protein structures. Meta is committed to this open model of research and we'll make our new model available to the AI research community.
Maybe he is being a Machiavellian moat filler, I stand corrected. I think/hope that they don't really have a plan to counter OpenAI yet because I am afraid this attitude won't last once they do and this stuff has recently started moving quickly.
And, yes, it fills the moat.
Inside knowledge I never claimed. Anything else I can help you with today? :)
Never in my life have I seen that word used affectionately
Not sure how calling out comment as "biased", "uninformed" or "condescending" is helping.
Facebook has no real way to monetize this (eg they won’t release an api a la OpenAI and they don’t own a search engine). Since they can’t monetize it… why not provide a bit of kindling to lower the barrier for everyone else to compete with your competitors. This strategy is called “commodize your complement”.
If Facebook makes it easier to develop a google alternative, especially by doing something that doesn’t hurt you, you just weaken a competitor. See Facebook releasing datasets for mapping. Think of the panic ChatGPT caused Google. It only cost a few Million to train but it’s probably costing Google more than that already.
ChatGPT: "One pound of feathers and two pounds of lead weigh the same, which is one pound or 16 ounces. The difference is in their volume, where a pound of feathers takes up more space than two pounds of lead. This is because the density of feathers is much less than that of lead, so even though the weight is the same, the amount of space they occupy is quite different."
As for why it fails, it is likely a bias arising from the question being way more commonly asked in the corpus with equal mass than with distinct mass, increasing attention weights towards an answer expressing equality.
I believe current LLMs lack some common sense at an architectural level. They learn both specialized facts and general deduction in the same weights class: in my mind, they should separate their world model from their instance model.
Your analysis is good, but that isn't what "commoditize your complement" means.
Strictly speaking, a search engine isn't a complement for FBs revenue streams. Relatively little of FBs revenue can be attributed to search engine traffic leading to FBs walled garden where they can show the user ads.
Complements are generally a required product or service that enables your core, but that isn't revenue generating for you. Examples for FB are data centers (so they participate in the Open Compute Project[0]), and mobile operating systems (which Google already has made a commodity, for their own reasons, with Android).
What FB is doing here is commoditizing their competitors' core offering (or rather, a rather promising future one). That's just the tactic though, there are several strategies this can enable, from undermining the barriers to entry into their competitors' search markets, to actually fragmenting that market by encouraging a diversity of specialized chat interfaces over one big chat model. You can see hints of both in this announcement.
Final note: FB is also protecting itself from relying on a competitor as a supplier should chat become a preferred user interface for the content on social networks, which it hasn't, but if it ever did this would count as "commoditizing their complement", though I would actually expect FB to switch to a mostly proprietary approach in that circumstance (so not much openness on having LLMs operate on social graphs and the like), just keeping the foundation they rely on, and which undermines and prevents gatekeeping by their advertising competitors, open.
In the case of OpenAI it is a "nudge humanity into a more wholesome direction" because a lot of them went on an acid fueled toxic affective altruism bender. And in this case it is "release all the things while Zuck is still obsessed with VR --for science!".
I like this other group better. But it is disturbing that it can stop at any moment. Probably why they are doing it, while they still can.