🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; OpenAI losses; Murdoch’s empire drama, waste-eating flies & learning ++ #484
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Meta’s Gambit. Llama 3.1’s release has narrowed the gap between open-source and closed-source AI, matching proprietary models on key benchmarks.1 Zuckerberg champions open-source AI, displaying altruism while executing a shrewd corporate strategy. Meta employs a “commoditise your complement” approach, a strategy to make LLMs more generic…