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> it doesn’t seem defensible for a major company with tons of lawyers, money, and talent to knowingly use stolen work to build something that they then turn around and sell.

I thought they give it away for free?

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Not quite, Llamas license has a carve-out where if you have a lot of users then the open license doesn't apply to you, and you have to talk to Meta to negotiate a different (presumably paid) license. Hyperscaler deployments like AWS Bedrock probably fall into that category.

Meta isn't a charity - even if they're not profiting from Llama today, they believe they will at some point.

The user exception was for 100m monthly users - if you have that many users, you can afford your own base model. That's hardly a restriction as it is now.

lol, have they been living under a rock? Thats exactly the kind of thing I’d expect a major company to do.

To misquote Don Draper, that’s what the lawyers and money are for!

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