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MS put a cool 10b into OpenAI thinking they would have a massive tech moat. FB leaks llama and now OpenAI only has it's status as the bitcoin of LLMs (first, biggest, incumbent)

FB's plan is to F everyone else (MAAG) by making sure they can't make billions off tech that FB have sitting on the shelf, yet is extremely expensive for a true startup competitor to get in on.

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It's noncommercial only though, right? So people can't spin it up and start using it in the work?

The software got rewritten already and the model weights are probably not protecttable. Especially if you use the model weights to train your own model. Why would you be allowed to use copyrighted data to train your Models but not other Models?

No directly but people can take it as "inspiration" to create new ones.

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