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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Agha_shadi on 2024-07-26 02:20:15+00:00.

Hi internet nerds

I know the pros of open sourcing, and I also know that big tech companies are benefiting some big bucks from their closed source proprietary stuff. That’s always been like this.

We saw Meta open sourcing and maintaining their React framework. They did a hard work to develope and release it while devoting their resources to maintain it and making it open for anybody to access. I know the reason behind this. They had to have n use this framework in their infrastructure based on their needs, situation n bottlenecks, and If nobody used it, then it would’ve not survived and the other tools, libraries n frameworks were less likely to become compatible and so much intertwined with theirs. This, plus other well known benefits of the open-source world made them decide to lean toward this community.

But what makes them share their heavily resource intensive advanced Ai models like llama 3 and DCLM-Baseline-7B for free to the public? Even the Chinese CCP companies are maintaining open source Linux distros and Ai models for fuck sake!

I know that Chinese are obfuscating their malicious code and injecting them inside their open-source codes in a very advanced and barely detectable ways. I know they don’t care for anti trust laws or competitiveness and just care for the market dominance without special regulations for the foreign markets. But it’s not the case about Faang companies outside china that must comply to anti trust laws, human rights, user privacy and are held accountable for them. So what’s their main motivation that leads them to open-source their Ai models? Are they gradually changing their business models? If so, then why and what’s that new business model?