[vgchh]

AI may be meta's only and real "grow out of newsfeed business" card. They should probably pivot, release their own version of ChatGPT/VoiceGPT, start charging for it and maybe rebrand (metai?). They are currently not being taken seriously, despite the chops they have, due to their stupid obsession with social and connecting people.

[whimsicalism]

Perhaps by consumers but among the AI industry/NLP I would view them as the top 3 most sophisticated companies. They have also gained a ton of respect from me for not joining in with the "closed" approach other companies have all now adopted.

[daveguy]

They have, but when OpenAI started spouting "too dangerous to release" was about the same time they effectively dropped the "Open" part. I hope that is not the same for Meta. But wasn't Meta not releasing model weights except for a leak? In that respect are Meta and OpenAI already equivalent?

[whimsicalism]

OpenAI isnt even oublishing papers any more, and Meta has been publishing model weights for many models for quite some tome and have also commited to releasing their next language model open

apologies for typos, typing quickly on an ipad

[ajkjk]

Well they did that because they were in third, ie they had little to lose from 'commoditizing their competitors'