Couldn't the same argument be made for all kinds of things companies have made open? Some examples:

• Tesla gave away its EV patents.

• Pixar and DreamWorks have both open-sourced some of their tools, including tools used to make some of their best works. For example DreamWorks' MoonRay renderer has been used on everything they have done since "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World", including "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" and "The Wild Robot", and will be used on their upcoming films.

• Facebook open-sourced React.

• Google open-sourced Chromium.

Yes, it can. But my reply is to the person I directly responded to that claimed these tools are for meta product benefit, but ignored that same argument applies to competitors.

A better answer is meta releases them for some combination of they see it benefitting the business and/or a desire to provide broad benefits to everyone. They certainly expend tremendous resources to create these models. No other company has provided this much value to such a large base of users in this space.

In the case of Tesla, if you want to sell cars, you benefit from open up your charging tech, right?

this is like saying that AMD making chips that intel/nvidia employees can buy and use to do their jobs is a bad strategy for AMD. lol. ok not every single strategic choice needs to both grow the top line and be anti-competitive. some can just grow the top line.

the tools but not necessarily the data, presumably they have internally trained versions