How does Meta (Facebook) make money on LLAMA (their version of chat gpt) if it’s free?

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LLAMA2 is out and it’s pretty fancy, and there’s a news report that they’re making a way bigger one. But if it’s just open source stuff, how do they justify the massive costs to make it? It seems like everyone can just use it for free.

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They don’t. Or at least – they don’t make money directly from it. Releasing LLAMA as open source is their way to jump on the hype train. They don’t have good commercial products that could compete with GPT yet, so they want to, at least, prove they’re not far behind the competition. I’m sure that, at some point, they will release a commercial LLM that will compete with GPT.

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