Yeah right, he's donating all those GPUs to rebuild his reputation. It has nothing to do with trying to be relevant as a non-market leader.

Whatever the purpose is behind it, I'm just glad that their work benefits me for once. I could not tell you the last time Tim Cook or Bill Gates sponsored something that genuinely improved my day-to-day life.

I see the day to day for you, but bill gates is probably gonna get statues made of him for some of the things he is doing, especially in africa.

On the podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, he was quite explicit that he believes that open-sourcing has worked out for them in the past and they're interested in it in the future but they'll only do it so long as it helps them. If they make something awesome that it would be worse for them to release he won't release it. And the license is anti-competitor (if you have 700 million users or more, you can't use Llama) so he's quite clear that this is a business decision.

I wonder if there is a limit to this strategy? How many LLMs would it have taken Epstein to release for HN to forgive him?