It's nice that, like the original Llama model and it's myriad iterations, it's free to download, but I feel this is being made into more of a big deal than it is. As I hear, this is optimized to perform as well as open ai's subscription service, the industry being touted as the thing we need to throw billions at, as well as nuclear powered data centres for the computational requirements of Sam Altman.

First, optimizing something is a lot easier than discovering and implimenting new things, secdond, I don't really think there was much hegemony as the llama model was initially made public, which started this whole optimization game. What is Nature saying?