>seeing that Meta is crushing Google... This is like MySpace teaching a lesson to Apple.

Huh? How so? I see Meta and Alphabet as very similar companies. Both rely on ads, extracting information from text, keeping users engaged on their platforms, furthering AI/machine learning, etcetera. Does MySpace have their own computing devices I'm unaware of?

But they are not released. Only for non-commercial use by groups that they grant access to. Which means studies funded by giant corporations, or governments using it for their own propaganda, or hackers that steal it or find a leak and use it for spam and phishing etc. Anyone who wants to make something useful and positive is going to be left out.

AI companies seem to be in a paradoxical space where they need the optics of being open even if it goes against their business interests.

You know, Google releasing a ChatGPT competitor that could be run locally would really take the wind out of Microsoft's sails without needing to shift their own business model.

Yan LeCunn seems to be parading that this is open source under GPL V3, which would have been great. However, yes the model weights have not been released and are under a separate non commercial license.

"Researchers and entities affiliated with government, civil society, and academia" sounds like it might include some positive uses, if you don't assume Meta is maximally evil just for the fun of it.

I don't see any crushing going on.