cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45435884
“the company admitted it likely won’t be able to keep up with competing models.”
“As such, the announcement is a bit of an enigma: if it can’t keep up with the competition, why release it at all? There’s a good change Meta is just trying to get its foot in the door — or a “seat at the big kid’s table,” as Wired put it. The company has struggled to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape” “Meta’s preceding Llama open source models largely failed to catch on, with a major controversy last year finding that Meta may have faked benchmark results to make its Llama 4 model seem more capable than it actually was.”
Sadly, his controlling shares mean he’s unoustable, but let’s never exclude the possibility of an early leaden retirement if he loses enough of other people’s money.