[blitzar]

To pay $100mil to ai devs.

I have a theory that Meta execs was so focused on the Metaverse that the Ai team succeeded thanks to the lack of supervision and interference from above - there was probably a board discussion between 2019 and 2022 about firing them all and just focusing up the Metaverse stuff becuase they were dead weight on the core mission of colonizing the Metaverse.

Turns out the Ai team was the lifeboat to save the drowning Metaverse.

[buyucu]

In my experience success of a project is inversely proportional to executive attention. The best thing seniour leaders can do is to get out of the way.

[froidpink]

Meta has been investing in AI for more than a decade

[gary_0]

Longer than that, for sure. They were deploying ML systems at least as far back as 2011.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeRank

[blitzar]

And yet their quaterly and annual reports dont mention it at all till 2022 and the team are now being "helped out" by new $100mil talent.

There is an amazing team there that did the work, I am just saying it wasnt the visionaries vision that made that happen - and if it was they certainly wouldnt have let the Ai team publish or opensource their work.