There’s a gold rush under way in Silicon Valley. Since the explosion of ChatGPT at the end of last year, the entire tech industry has been racing to catch up and cash in on the large language model (LLM) AI boom. Within weeks, Microsoft spent $10 billion to invest in OpenAI, the company behind GPT. Google has spent untold millions on its own AI, named Bard, and reorganised its AI division. And though it has remained characteristically tight-lipped, Apple has reportedly lavished billions on its own LLM, too.
What’s clear, then, is that AI models are not just incredibly powerful, but valuable, too. This makes Mark Zuckerberg’s contribution to the AI space all the more surprising. Meta, née Facebook, has of course developed
