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On the other hand, the open source work done by meta has been instrumental in advancing many technologies and techniques. Machine learning via PyTorch being a prime example.

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The jury is still out on that one…

On whether they’ve been instrumental on advancing machine learning, or on whether that’s a good thing?

They have definitely contributed a lot to advancing machine learning. I believe the above comment means we don't know whether advancing AI will have sour consequences for society down the line

I mean maybe, but it’s already having positive effects today. It’s advanced the state of the art for cancer diagnostics and is advancing novel treatments, for example.

So far, the arguments against that I’ve seen have been hypotheticals and boogeymen.

Its not open source. Its source available.

PyTorch has a BSD license, so should be genuine OSI Open Source.

And zstandard, io_uring are from Facebook too, right?

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