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Except: Meta doesn't sell AI at all. Zuck is just doing this for two reasons:

- flex

- deal a blow to Altmann

Meta uses ai in all the recommendation algorithms. They absolutely hope to turn their chat assistants into a product on WhatsApp too, and GenAI is crucial to creating the metaverse. This isn’t just a charity case.

There are literal ads for Meta Ai on television. The idea they’re not selling something is absurd.

AI isn't a single thing: of course meta didn't buy thousands of GPUs for fun.

But it has nothing to do with LLMs (and interestingly enough they aren't opening their recommendation tech).

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