https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg#:~:text=As%20long...
The short version is that is you give a product to open source, they can and will donate time and money to improving your product, and the ecosystem around it, for free, and you get to reap those benefits. Llama has already basically won that space (the standard way of running open models is llama.cpp), so OpenAI have finally realized they're playing catch-up (and last quarter's SOTA isn't worth much revenue to them when there's a new SOTA, so they may as well give it away while it can still crack into the market)
But I don't see how open sourcing weights has a lock-in effect. In fact, it seems OpeanAI's open models can be run on llama.cpp. So by offereing them, they make llama.cpp even MORE useful. Instead of driving developers towards their own tech.
I have not seen a glimpse of it yet (I think it asked me once to enable it and I denied?). And when I ask friends about it, they also do not use any AI provided by Apple.
If anyone here is using it - how and what for? Do you like it?