Meta has no horse in the race (i.e. they don't have a search engine). So, they don't mind throwing random things out. Withholding it won't really make much of a difference for them, as they don't have a way to productionize the tech.
While I disagree that having a search engine is the only way to have a "horse in the race", I must agree that at this point Meta does not appear to have a horse in the race.
Other companies are providing services that are so useful that it makes us think twice about how secure our jobs are. Then there is Meta, who seems to think that the world at large will forget about the terrible motion sickness that their VR products have wrought upon us. I for one will not forget. I'm actually traumatized, and even thinking about putting on VR goggles at this point makes me feel queasy.
Their horse seems to be "AI-generated ads". I'm still not sold on the idea though. I can see corporate Marketing departments using AI as a tool to ASSIST with ad copy development, but I'm skeptical that they'll let a third party like Meta generate the ad copy on the fly before pushing to targets. Maybe just tiny parts of it for "personalization".
I would be _shocked_ if Zuck wasn't thinking 24/7 about how to capitalize on LLMs. I'm sure there are a thousand ideas (maybe even a few good ones?) being thrown around Meta at how to use LLMs to beat Google/Microsoft+OpenAI at the "search buddy" game.
Meta still has the Portal line of products - which were competitors to the Alexa, Siri and similar Google audio assistant product lines. I just searched and it looks like Meta are currently partnering with Amazon to license Alexa on these devices, but I could imagine they might want to replace it with their own LLM eventually.
I am a bit surprised that no one is talking about how these new LLM models will disrupt Alexa, Siri, etc. since that seems to be the most applicable market I can imagine.
would not be surprised if they integrated a "suggested conversations" feature based on your chat history and behaviour, where the user just picks sentences from a list and both parties can enjoy a effortless "organic" conversation.
Wow, seems like Meta AI is so ahead of the curve compared to even Google and OpenAI recently especially with their open sourcing pushes.
Great for the research community as a whole!