This excerpt is from a May 10, 2024 YouTube conversation where Matt Wolfe asks why Meta would open source large AI models despite high training costs. Speaker B responds that Meta isn't focused on selling developer products or operating a cloud/ML developer platform, implying strategic motives other than direct product revenue.
I'm curious. You mentioned Meta earlier and it's something I guess I haven't been able to wrap my head around is you know, why a company like Meta would open source their models. From what I understand, to train one of these models, it could cost millions of dollars to train with all the compute power required to train the models. What do you think like the motives for Meta to release models like this publicly? Why would they do that?
I think this goes back to my comment of like they are not selling a developer product and they don't have a developer platform. They have, I think there is some like Facebook app platform or something like that. But I think that's like all slightly aside. They're not like cloud provider. They're not selling the model to end users. For them to be able to or developers for them to be able to build that in their technology.
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