[Sevii]

What I don't get is, how are these free LLMs getting funded? Who is paying $20-100 million to create an open weights LLM? Long term why would they keep doing it?

[dham]

I see what you're saying, but it doesn't matter that much in the long run. If everything stopped right now, the state-of-the-art open source models can still solve a lot of problems. They may never solve coding, per se, but they're good enough.

[direwolf20]

Billionaires trying to hurt each other. Facebook released LLaMa hoping to hasten OpenAI's bankruptcy.

[LtWorf]

But it's not open, and in fact AFAIK it's not possible to use commercially.