Meta starts open-sourcing a lot and is now becoming one of the best companies in the world at shipping AI features. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Contrary to popular belief, a company (or a country) sharing their research, models and datasets publicly in open-source makes them MORE competitive, not LESS, even more so in AI. IMO, that’s how the US and some companies like OAI & Google established their leadership in the past few years (even though they are not so open anymore). Some of the reasons why open-sourcing makes companies more competitive: - Open science and open source attracts and motivates the best talents who want to to contribute to the field - It focuses organization on the speed of building - not on taking advantage of the current tech - especially important on a fast moving domain like AI - It motivates the whole field to improve what you’re building on (bug fixing, optimization, new capabilities) that you can then really easily integrate in your products). Is your company sharing their research, models and datasets? If not, they’re missing out! Source: wired.com/story/meta-ai-chat…