[jart]

I love Meta. I thought they had turned to the dark side for the longest time. I've never been so wrong. When Meta released LLaMA it changed my life. I've never seen a company move more leverage to the edge at once. They must be taking notice of how much it's made folks like me adore them. So now we're getting commercial friendly models too? I didn't know Christmas could come twice in one year.

[ranguna]

Meta is so big that I'm not even sure it's valid to refer to them as a whole. What I like in this context is Meta's ML research department, but to me, Meta as a whole is still the same old privacy violating, dopamine inducing, teenage deprecion and suicide causing company I've alway known.

So probably best to not mix the waters.

[elcomet]

How did it change your life?

[jart]

When LLaMA came out, I dropped everything I was doing to work on it. It's given me new hope for technological progress. Think about it. What were people focusing on before LLMs came out? The frontiers in software were cryptocurrency and wasm. Now we have something I can believe in and thanks to Facebook I'm able to actually use it on my own. I also got to feel like I was a part of its development when I changed llama.cpp to reduce its memory use by 2x and enable running multiple models in parallel.