Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because ‘Zuck has balls,’ a former top Facebook engineer says::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.
It was probably just to get all of the free development work the community has done. There are multiple engines designed around optimizing llama models specifically such as llama.cpp and exllama, and many other projects built around the architecture.
Facebook’s research division also has a pretty consistent track record of releasing things to the public rather than letting their research models rot.
Was not too bad for Google to make android open source
Google had no choice, when they bought Android it was already GPL
Android is Apache 2, only the kernel is GPL
Really unfortunetly…
Apparently, the Zuck fucks
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The AI community has embraced the opportunity, giving Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg his next potentially huge platform.
This wouldn’t have happened unless Zuckerberg was willing to take a big risk on Llama 2 possibly being used for nefarious purposes, according to a former top Facebook engineer.
“It takes a certain amount of guts to release an open-source language model, especially with political heat that Meta’s getting from that,” said Amjad Masad during a recent episode of the No Priors podcast.
Before that, he spent almost 3 years at Facebook where he helped create React Native and other popular software development tools.
During the No Priors podcast, Masad said he’s been surprised that Meta is the only major tech company so far to go the open-source route for AI models.
He compared this to Facebook’s Open Compute project, which designed data center hardware and made that available for anyone to use and contribute to.
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If the main risk is the model being used for something nefarious, like teaching terrorists how to make weapons, then can we PLEASE stop calling Zuck “bold” for doing it?
Not caring about moral consequences is not bold. It’s reckless and uncaring. Sure, the jackass who built his startup on it now lives up Zuck’s ass in thanks, but the rest of us should call it what it is.
I always dislike this arguement. AI isn’t magically going to give people capabilities they otherwise wouldn’t have. Everything that it can do is just automating tasks that could already be done by humans.
If you want to know how to make bombs there are literally articles online for it, you don’t have to have an AI. If you did, then there wouldn’t be terrorists already.
