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The relevant paragraph about Meta’s commitment to open source is here, and the statement is significantly less confident than news is reporting

> • Open source is a positive and important force for empowering people and preventing centralization that is detrimental for both safety and the economy. Meta continues to be strongly supportive of open source, including open source AI models. The current open source ecosystem is strong, and we think it would be a mistake to restrict it. Now that Meta Superintelligence Labs are up and running, we will resume releasing some open source models soon.

“We will resume releasing some open source models soon”??? That’s basically the most ambiguous non commitment ever. Even before legal team watering it down I can’t imagine what the intent is here. We are also going to release open models for things maybe or maybe not kinda? Absolutely zero conviction. And moreover, this explicitly frames the open source ecosystem as something Meta is not a part of.

> “We will resume releasing some open source models soon”??? That’s basically the most ambiguous non commitment ever.

I mean, they released another one today: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-...