Why Big Tech Wants to Make AI Cost Nothing
In this article:
- Earlier this week, Meta both open sourced and released the model weights for Llama 3.1, an extraordinarily powerful large language model (LLM) which is competitive with the best of what Open AI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude can offer.1
- But why would Meta release this model for free?
- If multiple players are giving away free LLMs, what is the natural component for them?
- How will these costs be recovered?
- What will happen to the AI Startups?
