Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI, Google and others, according to two people with direct knowledge of the product. Meta’s code-generating artificial intelligence model, ...
I wonder what’s the endgame for Zuch here? I doubt he’s doing these out of philanthropy.
Google and Microsoft (through their investment in open AI) are spending billions on LLMs. Zuck just wants to make sure they don’t get an advantage out of spending all this money.
If you
a) can get feedback about how good the code entered was, and can use the users code in followup generation.
b) have deep enough pockets to sustain giving this for ‘free’ to plenty of people for a while.
c) are willing to be focused enough to make sure this LLM only touches code.
Once your product is good enough and enough people rely on it for productivity you can basically name your price to any business. The key is how deep their pockets are and how big a risk they want to make.
That makes quite a lot of sense.
He’s want to be president one day.