Comment by jstummbillig

> when it became clear the work could be financially exploited

That is not the obvious reason for the change. Training models got a lot more expensive than anyone thought it would.

You can of course always cast shade on people's true motivations and intentions, but there is a plain truth here that is simply silly to ignore.

Training "frontier" open LLMs seems to be exactly possible when a) you are Meta, have substantial revenue from other sources and simply are okay with burning your cash reserves to try to make something happen and b) you copy and distill from the existing models.