Pretty much; they’re just running the standard playbook of starting open source to engage the community and then putting up the paywall once they’ve made enough progress. It does raise the question of how much room the open models have to optimize while still maintaining adequate performance.
That and they need to recoop their investment money
Pretty much; they’re just running the standard playbook of starting open source to engage the community and then putting up the paywall once they’ve made enough progress. It does raise the question of how much room the open models have to optimize while still maintaining adequate performance.