Forbes December 22, 2024
Rob Toews

1. Meta will begin charging for use of its Llama models.

Meta is the world’s standard bearer for open-weight AI. In a fascinating case study in corporate strategy, while rivals like OpenAI and Google have kept their frontier models closed source and charged for their use, Meta has chosen to give its state-of-the-art Llama models away for free.

So it will come as a surprise to many next year when Meta begins charging companies to use Llama.

To be clear: we are not predicting that Meta will make Llama entirely closed source, nor that anyone who uses the Llama models will have to pay for them.

Instead, we predict that Meta will make the terms of Llama’s open-source license more...

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