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Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer says
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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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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