Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 hours agoYeah the article is pretty bad… But the missing context is Zuckerberg let a lot of devs go, and the lab that actually built something neat (Llama 1-4) has all but been dismantled.
The new hires reek of tech bro and big egos butting together, especially the (alleged) talk to close source their next models. ‘TBD Lab’ is supposedly tasked with the next Llama release, but I am not holding my breath.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 16 hours ago
Well yeah, it’s Meta. I don’t know why anyone would expect them to be doing anything less. Same with close sourcing their next models - of course that’s the end goal. That’s the end goal of every company that is making these things. They open source them and make them free until they have everyone locked in and can lock it down and start charging for it.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
But they are putting the horse before the cart. These APIs and models are unsexy commodities, and Meta doesn’t have anything close to something they can charge for. Even OpenAI and Anthropic can barely justify it these days.
Others building on top Llama get them there, though. Which all the Chinese companies recognize now and are emulating: they can open the model, let it snowball with communal development to wipe out closed competitors, then offer products on top of it.
What’s conspicuous is that (at least some) in Meta recognized this. But Zuck is so fickle he won’t stick with any good idea.