Why Big Tech Wants to Make AI Cost Nothing

Big Tech companies like Meta are open sourcing powerful AI models like Llama 3.1 to commoditize AI tools, reducing costs for companies and potentially increasing their own user engagement and content generation. This echoes Silicon Valley's strategy to lower the value of product complements, thereby increasing demand for their main products.

• Meta released AI model Llama 3.1 for free.
• OpenAI's revenue is about $3.4 billion.
• Llama 3.1 was trained on 16,000 GPUs.
• Meta plans to have 600,000 H100s GPUs.
• Other companies have also released AI models.