How Will Open-Source AI Make Money?

Last week, we spent a lot of time talking about Meta Platforms’ new open-source Llama 3 models. However, the one question that still remains unanswered is how Meta and other developers of open-source AI software will make money from it—an uncertainty that likely contributed to Meta’s stock drop on Thursday.

Take Paris-based startup Mistral, for example, currently in talks to raise at a $5 billion valuation just months after raising at a $2 billion price. The large language model …

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