Masad: Pitched Zuckerberg in 2022 on open-sourcing LLMs via Open Compute playbook
Amjad Masad · No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad · Sep 21, 2023 · at 15:44
Replit CEO Amjad Masad discusses Meta's strategy behind open-sourcing the LLaMA model family and recounts his early 2022 meeting with Mark Zuckerberg.
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“And I got a meeting with Zuck actually, and I pitched Zuck on this idea. And I remember around the time he did the open compute project. So what open compute was like Google and AWS are going to keep all their data center secrets because it's a company advantage. But Facebook did not sell compute, did not sell cloud. And there's a lot of other companies that did not sell cloud. Cloud was a compliment for them, was not a competitive advantage. And so they pooled their resources together and they worked on this open compute project to be able to optimize computers for data centers. And it was a huge success. And what I told Zuck at the time was like, hey, why didn't you do that for LLMs? Obviously, Open source AI is going to be great for you because you can build better product. It's a compliment. And so it's sort of the traditional, like the classical, like commoditize your compliment, a business strategy.”
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