Comment by gardnr

The llama weights were leaked. It open sourced itself.

You are right though. Meta could have been in lockstep releasing ChatGPT features into some chat bot on Facebook.com but instead it seemed like their FAIR arm was hell bent on commoditising this stuff by publishing their research models before the Chinese companies took the lead in that.

It’s hard for me to be mad at FAIR even though I general disagree with the outcomes that Meta produce for their users.