Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Post by threethirtytwo » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC

bushido wrote: post #226

I think something that doesn't get said enough is Meta did, albeit intentionally kick off the origin of the open source race back in 2023 with the release of llama. I'm not a big fan of meta in general, but they've done enough good, and it's possible that it was intentional as well. I don't know, I wasn't in the rooms, and I think it's worth giving them some reasonable doubt. No one is purely good, and no one is pure…

Post by AnimalMuppet » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:39 PM UTC

threethirtytwo wrote: post #521

bushido wrote: post #226

I think something that doesn't get said enough is Meta did, albeit intentionally kick off the origin of the open source race back in 2023 with the release of llama. I'm not a big fan of meta in general, but they've done enough good, and it's possible that it was intentional as well. I don't know, I wasn't in the rooms, and I think it's worth giving them some reasonable doubt. No one is purely good, and no one is pure…

People like to polarize themselves to one extreme. Plenty of HN people call Elon Musk "pure evil." It's the most ludicrous statement ever. Let me be clear: with electric cars and solar, elon musk has done more net good for the world then almost everyone on HN. Is elon musk perfect? No. Far from it. It's within the imperfectness that people find reasons to attack him.

Post by AvAn12 » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC

Post by larodi » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #511

larodi wrote: post #474

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Am I the only one getting the impression this dude was merely lucky back in the day, in fact at the right time, rather than having been super intelligent nor forward thinking… ? I mean - given all his throw outs in media and his apparent burn of nearly 80bn for a failed 3D world?

Disclaimer- ex Meta employee. Horizon was horribly managed, but also we threw all of our unannounced projects under that umbrella to make it look better for shareholders when we finally cut it. The original LLM research, smart glasses, and a bunch of other projects were under the "Reality Labs" business expense.

Post by majkinetor » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:04 PM UTC

kakacik wrote: post #466

somenameforme wrote: post #439

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Not to be coy, but what is happening right now? You definitely have some scams and some software flaws being exposed, but I think for a revolutionary leap in tech this is all quite muted. Revolutionary tech advances often come with some severe consequences. For instance, to this day (after a century of safety improvements) cars still kill more than a million people a year, to say nothing of wrecking the atmosphere, b…

Thats like, your opinion man... I don't know a single white collar person who isn't worried for their job with llms. Every. Single. One. Lawyers, doctors, any type of office workers I ask. The definition of white collar. Plus don't let me start on various automatable blue collar jobs like drivers, warehouse workers and so on. What do we get in return? Better search (for now, its already getting riddled with ads which…