Lots of applications for the technology are likely and already being used.
Llama to improve Customer to Product Matching through content analysis.
Llama for Ad Generation based on customer and product profiles.
Llama to generate additional chat signal for humans not chatting with other humans.
Llama as a site content moderator.
Llama as a code generation assistant.
Llama to clean up and improve internal wikis.
Llama as an operational analysis tool to detect inefficiencies in internal communication...
They will use it every in every situation where they find a successful use case. Open sourcing the weights buys goodwill but it won't be long before everyone open sources their weights since the only real long term moats are the successful products built around the technology and not the technology itself. Facebook is its own moat. Altman suggested this outcome a few days ago in his NYT DealBook interview when he compared the transformer model to the transistor.
They will use it every in every situation where they find a successful use case. Open sourcing the weights buys goodwill but it won't be long before everyone open sources their weights since the only real long term moats are the successful products built around the technology and not the technology itself. Facebook is its own moat. Altman suggested this outcome a few days ago in his NYT DealBook interview when he compared the transformer model to the transistor.