Stunning to see so many comments here very eager to try it out and cheering for it. Meta is not one bit better (and in reality worse) than Larry Elisson or Palantir but I doubt we'd be seeing this if it'd be Oracle Code or Palantir Code.
Though I guess that there's such a big population of (ex-)Meta employees here that this might explain it.
I think a lot of people are simply glad to see so much viable competition in the LLM space. Given the oligopolistic outcomes in Big Tech over the past couple decades, it would be nice if Big AI turned out differently, even if a lot of those competing have monopolies or near-monopolies in other spheres.
I suspect this is part of why people are cheering for the Chinese. It's nice to see frontier competition coming from another country. And they are making the open weights a way of being, unlike the US oligarchs
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Though I guess that there's such a big population of (ex-)Meta employees here that this might explain it.
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