The title and description and the tone of the article do not match what is actually being reported.
As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called “superintelligence,” one on products, and another on infrastructure.
A restructure to place all their newly hired AI people, who they were paying up to a billion dollars to join, into leadership positions in more defined divisions is not “crumbling into chaos” - in fact it’s pretty much the opposite of “chaos”.
Yeah the article is pretty bad… But the missing context is Zuckerberg let a lot of devs go, and the lab that 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.
Yeah, the reorganization does make sense on the surface, but ultimately its putting an increased emphasis on ‘products’ and the nonsense of building near-term AGI instead of basic NLP research that got them where they are.
but ultimately its putting an increased emphasis on ‘products’
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.
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.
The title and description and the tone of the article do not match what is actually being reported.
A restructure to place all their newly hired AI people, who they were paying up to a billion dollars to join, into leadership positions in more defined divisions is not “crumbling into chaos” - in fact it’s pretty much the opposite of “chaos”.
Yeah the article is pretty bad… But the missing context is Zuckerberg let a lot of devs go, and the lab that 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.
Yeah, the reorganization does make sense on the surface, but ultimately its putting an increased emphasis on ‘products’ and the nonsense of building near-term AGI instead of basic NLP research that got them where they are.
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.
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.
Fuck every single person in their AI division. I mean fuck a whole bunch of people in tech sector, but fuck them too