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Llama 2
The July 2023 release that legitimized open commercial weights.
Llama 2 (7B–70B, free for most commercial use, Microsoft as launch partner) turned Meta's leaked-research liability into strategy: an open ecosystem that commoditizes rivals' paid models. Fine-tunes of it seeded thousands of startups and the local-AI movement.
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Meta
Open-weights standard-bearer turned superintelligence spender.
Meta's Llama releases made open weights a mainstream strategy and seeded a global developer ecosystem. In 2025 Mark Zuckerberg reorganized the effort into Meta Superintelligence Labs, hiring Scale AI's Alexandr Wang via a $14.3B stake, paying reported nine-figure packages, and pointed capex ($70B+ in 2025) at the Prometheus and Hyperion mega-campuses, with…
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