This is really good news. Zuck sees the inevitability of it and the dystopian regulatory landscape and decided to go all in.
This also has the important effect of neutralizing the critique of US Government AI regulation because it will democratize "frontier" models and make enforcement nearly impossible. Thank you, Zuck, this is an important and historic move.
It also opens up the market to a lot more entry in the area of "ancillary services to support the effective use of frontier models" (including safety-oriented concerns), which should really be the larger market segment.
Unfortunately, there are a number of AI safety people that are still crowing about how AI models need to be locked down, with some of them loudly pivoting to talking about how open source models aid China.
Plus there's still the spectre of SB-1047 hanging around.
This also has the important effect of neutralizing the critique of US Government AI regulation because it will democratize "frontier" models and make enforcement nearly impossible. Thank you, Zuck, this is an important and historic move.
It also opens up the market to a lot more entry in the area of "ancillary services to support the effective use of frontier models" (including safety-oriented concerns), which should really be the larger market segment.