Meta is one of the biggest contributors to FOSS in the world. (React, PyTorch, Llama, …). They stand to gain what every big company does, a community contributing to their infra.
You’ll note that nobody is open sourcing their ad recommender, that is the one you should be skeptical about if you ever see. You don’t share your secret sauce.
Actually... (2019) https://ai.meta.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-l...
Source code:
https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm
Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00091
Updated 2023 blog post, but solely for content recommendation, but ads recommendation is ~90% the same:
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/09/ml-applications/scalin...
It's a little out of date, but the internal one is built with the same concepts, just more advanced modeling techniques and data.
Why not exactly? Between Meta’s great contributions to the open-source ecosystem and Mark behaving more like a normal man nowadays, right now is the only time in a long time that I’ve considered applying to go work at Meta. I’ve heard several of my colleagues and friends say the same thing in recent months.
You’re certainly entitled to your opinions and ad hominems. Many folks, including myself, disagree with you, so there’s that.
But man is that dude a bad example of how to be a human.
I'll cut him some slack for growing up in public with stupid money and no one to regulate his impulses, but uff da.
Wake me up when he's old enough for his lagging prefrontal cortex to catch up with the rest of him.
That said, as with anything from Meta, I approach this with a grain of salt and the fact that I can't tell what they stand to gain from this makes me suspicious.