Use AGPL. The Big Tech companies have policies to avoid that with and not touch the code with a 20 foot pole. So most of your competitors using the code will be small like yourself.
And frankly, there is a lot to be said for collaboration instead of competition. The mindset in the US has been one of rugged capitalism and competition. But this is often less efficient when it comes to building platforms, as Big Tech has.
Model weights are open sourced. You may not know how they were trained, but you can run them locally for many purposes - people have built businesses around LLaMa, Stable Diffusion, Bloom etc. Imagine if they couldn’t?
Llama was open sourced partly because Mark Z was always an open source guy. Before he made Facebook, he open sourced Synapse rather than selling it to Microsoft for $1M. After he made Facebook, he wanted to make an open, decentralized, permissionless file-sharing system called “Wirehog”.
The reason he didn’t do it, is that he went to Silicon Valley and met Sean Parker, who introduced him to “the old boys club” of VCs there.
I was there at the first TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC when Parker proudly told everyone that “they has put a bullet in that thing”:
Parker knew very well what happens when another IP-fueled oligopoly, the Big Music Industry (MPAA, RIAA) goes after you for open file sharing. He learned the lesson well and started Plaxo, got VC funding.
Parker introduced Zuck to Peter Thiel, whose motto even back then was “competition is for losers, build a monopoly”. The “Paypal Mafia” including Thiel and Musk had gone on to build lots of Big Companies.
Mentors like that turned Zuck from an open source bro into a corporate golden boy who ruthlessly buys up the competition (WhatsApp, Instagram, tried to buy Snapchat etc) and takes advantage of user privacy to monetize any way they can:
He has recently rehabilitated his image, and largely because of open sourcing Llama and being “the open alternative to ‘OpenAI’”
The mindset of Silicon Valley VCs is part of the larger cycle of “capturing value” inside large companies, their capital is there to “remove friction”, get critical mass and go public in an IPO. Then the shareholders continue to demand the company extracts rents from the ecosystem.
Last year we even learned more than half of the VCs and their startups ALL BANKED AT THE SAME BANK! To me this is a great symbol of just how centralized the whole old boys club is. And the same Peter Thiel started a run on that bank.
And frankly, there is a lot to be said for collaboration instead of competition. The mindset in the US has been one of rugged capitalism and competition. But this is often less efficient when it comes to building platforms, as Big Tech has.
Model weights are open sourced. You may not know how they were trained, but you can run them locally for many purposes - people have built businesses around LLaMa, Stable Diffusion, Bloom etc. Imagine if they couldn’t?
Llama was open sourced partly because Mark Z was always an open source guy. Before he made Facebook, he open sourced Synapse rather than selling it to Microsoft for $1M. After he made Facebook, he wanted to make an open, decentralized, permissionless file-sharing system called “Wirehog”.
The reason he didn’t do it, is that he went to Silicon Valley and met Sean Parker, who introduced him to “the old boys club” of VCs there.
I was there at the first TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC when Parker proudly told everyone that “they has put a bullet in that thing”:
https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/wirehog/
Parker knew very well what happens when another IP-fueled oligopoly, the Big Music Industry (MPAA, RIAA) goes after you for open file sharing. He learned the lesson well and started Plaxo, got VC funding.
Parker introduced Zuck to Peter Thiel, whose motto even back then was “competition is for losers, build a monopoly”. The “Paypal Mafia” including Thiel and Musk had gone on to build lots of Big Companies.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo...
Mentors like that turned Zuck from an open source bro into a corporate golden boy who ruthlessly buys up the competition (WhatsApp, Instagram, tried to buy Snapchat etc) and takes advantage of user privacy to monetize any way they can:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
He has recently rehabilitated his image, and largely because of open sourcing Llama and being “the open alternative to ‘OpenAI’”
The mindset of Silicon Valley VCs is part of the larger cycle of “capturing value” inside large companies, their capital is there to “remove friction”, get critical mass and go public in an IPO. Then the shareholders continue to demand the company extracts rents from the ecosystem.
Last year we even learned more than half of the VCs and their startups ALL BANKED AT THE SAME BANK! To me this is a great symbol of just how centralized the whole old boys club is. And the same Peter Thiel started a run on that bank.