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McCullough: Meta pushes open source AI to avoid another mobile platform dependency

Brian McCullough · Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough · Oct 25, 2023 · at 42:18

Brian McCullough analyzes Meta's strategic rationale for open-sourcing AI models in its rivalry with OpenAI.

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“Meta does not want to be in a position where the only way they can do that with a high degree of accuracy and efficacy is to have to ping somebody else's APIs. Because again, they'll be in the position that they have been with like the iPhone and Android all these years is they don't own the platform that their service fundamentally sits on.”

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