It’s interesting that Facebook/Meta fell so far behind in AI despite the substantial resources on hand. ‘Metaverse’ was an inherently flawed idea that they thought they could make work through market leverage, but well-scoring LLMs have been done successfully by a wide variety of organizations, from Alibaba to X to OpenAI to Anthropic.
Is it something organizational? Does Facebook have any successful spinoff initiatives?
potentially Meta cares less than others about whatever ECI measures, i.e. if they want AI to generate and curate “content” in instagram and facebook. I think the main reason is yeah, just a series of poor decisions. maybe some organisational issues, e.g. Meta is a one-man dictatorship, whereas OpenAI/Anth/GDM are much more researcher-led so were AGI-pilled for longer.
Meta has basically shut down FAIR after their Llama 4 fiasco, fired the lead and Yann, and they are starting again by creating a new lab called Meta Superintelligence Labs. The guys Alexander Wang has assembled STARTED working toghether like during the summer.
It’s interesting that Facebook/Meta fell so far behind in AI despite the substantial resources on hand. ‘Metaverse’ was an inherently flawed idea that they thought they could make work through market leverage, but well-scoring LLMs have been done successfully by a wide variety of organizations, from Alibaba to X to OpenAI to Anthropic.
Is it something organizational? Does Facebook have any successful spinoff initiatives?
potentially Meta cares less than others about whatever ECI measures, i.e. if they want AI to generate and curate “content” in instagram and facebook. I think the main reason is yeah, just a series of poor decisions. maybe some organisational issues, e.g. Meta is a one-man dictatorship, whereas OpenAI/Anth/GDM are much more researcher-led so were AGI-pilled for longer.
Meta has basically shut down FAIR after their Llama 4 fiasco, fired the lead and Yann, and they are starting again by creating a new lab called Meta Superintelligence Labs. The guys Alexander Wang has assembled STARTED working toghether like during the summer.