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Muse Spark 1.1

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Re: Muse Spark 1.1

#31

I personally do not like Meta, but I'll say this. The more competition, the better for regular consumers. (Enterprise too) - Chinese models - Grok - Meta - Google - OpenAI - Anthropic I think this is a win. I'm building like crazy to take advantage of all these subsidized tokens while I can.

While data centers are still using lots of energy created from fossil fuels and many still evaporate water for cooling?

No wonder we still can’t get climate change under control

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

#33

I personally do not like Meta, but I'll say this. The more competition, the better for regular consumers. (Enterprise too) - Chinese models - Grok - Meta - Google - OpenAI - Anthropic I think this is a win. I'm building like crazy to take advantage of all these subsidized tokens while I can.

Its the biggest technology race we have ever seen. Richest companies, smartest people, richest countries.

I do not know if competition is good, we will see in a few years.

Looking forward having a physical job for a change :D

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

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post #19

I personally do not like Meta, but I'll say this. The more competition, the better for regular consumers. (Enterprise too) - Chinese models - Grok - Meta - Google - OpenAI - Anthropic I think this is a win. I'm building like crazy to take advantage of all these subsidized tokens while I can.

Yeah, I think it is definitely great. Having said that, I am still debating in my mind whether the volume of software engineers needed in the AI era is going to increase or decrease because of all of these advancements. On the one hand, because it is easy to build products, more and more people will build. And more and more products and features will be built. However, a lot of people who are non-technical will also…

I see some similarities to 3D printing here. It’s great that everyone can make their own toothbrush holder (or whatever) but I’m probably not going to pay for someone’s weekend project.

I’m “seeing” more devs stepping into the SendCutSend stage where they’re cleaning up/fixing/productizing vibe coded projects so maybe there will be some new demand in that space?

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

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post #4

The pricing is insane: $1.25/$4.5 for 1M tokens, and $0.15 for cached input! https://dev.meta.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing-rate-limits

Meta isn’t right now on the radar for most folks picking models.

If they have a really good model, it makes sense to subsidise it, to gain users, before they align prices with competitors.

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

#37

Their published benchmarks seem to indicate that it's pretty good at coding and multimodal, but VERY good at successful tool calls. What kind of use case would be best for that shape?

This sounds... kind of useless? Really good JSON or similar constrained decoder performance is interesting, but normal decoder > tool validator loop with good error message > tool retry is almost always able to get a tool to work second try, and input is cached so it's not expensive.

The avg coding session has hundreds or thousands of tool calls. Even a 5% failure rate noticeably notches up token use and cost. See Gemini.

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

#38
post #19

I personally do not like Meta, but I'll say this. The more competition, the better for regular consumers. (Enterprise too) - Chinese models - Grok - Meta - Google - OpenAI - Anthropic I think this is a win. I'm building like crazy to take advantage of all these subsidized tokens while I can.

Yeah, I think it is definitely great. Having said that, I am still debating in my mind whether the volume of software engineers needed in the AI era is going to increase or decrease because of all of these advancements. On the one hand, because it is easy to build products, more and more people will build. And more and more products and features will be built. However, a lot of people who are non-technical will also…

At least in China a lot of software developers are now struggling.

I think for a lot of type of software we have now reached peak employment.

Someone payed a few k just for a normal website.

Re: Muse Spark 1.1

#40

Their published benchmarks seem to indicate that it's pretty good at coding and multimodal, but VERY good at successful tool calls. What kind of use case would be best for that shape?

I wonder if we'll start to see that pattern with every new release. Tool use likely changes rapidly, so the newest, rather than most intelligent, model may always have an edge.
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