There are some, but most are closed and especially top end ones like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are now increasingly releasing their top end models with no strings attached.
idk about the Chinese companies but in the case of facebook it’s a pretty naked case of commoditizing their complements, not some altruistic play at positive-sum technobloomerism
the cheaper slop generation gets the better it is for facebook, the slop platform. it’s weird that google hasn’t made the same decision
There doesn’t need to be any altruistic intent here. Facebook released their models because they fell behind OpenAI, and they realized that they could compete in selling them as a service. So, they pivoted to treating models like a commodity as you note. It still leads to a positive-sum cooperation scenario however regardless of the underlying intent.
Fundamentally, there’s a competition between two business models here. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI think they can stay far enough ahead with their proprietary models that they can continue to sell them as subscription services. Meanwhile, other companies don’t see models as a direct source of revenue, and see them as a tool building platform.
There are some, but most are closed and especially top end ones like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are now increasingly releasing their top end models with no strings attached.
idk about the Chinese companies but in the case of facebook it’s a pretty naked case of commoditizing their complements, not some altruistic play at positive-sum technobloomerism
the cheaper slop generation gets the better it is for facebook, the slop platform. it’s weird that google hasn’t made the same decision
There doesn’t need to be any altruistic intent here. Facebook released their models because they fell behind OpenAI, and they realized that they could compete in selling them as a service. So, they pivoted to treating models like a commodity as you note. It still leads to a positive-sum cooperation scenario however regardless of the underlying intent.
Fundamentally, there’s a competition between two business models here. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI think they can stay far enough ahead with their proprietary models that they can continue to sell them as subscription services. Meanwhile, other companies don’t see models as a direct source of revenue, and see them as a tool building platform.