alt Hacker NewsI've participated in some corporate shit-shows in my day, but man I don't think I've ever seen one burn cash this fast.
Another thought: they say the software you ship reflects your org chart ("you ship your org chart"). Given how far Meta has slipped in the last year in the AI race, their org-wide dysfunction is starting to seriously harm them, from Financials to execution to talent. They need to get their act together, starting from the top.
I'm not a fan of Meta, but I'm a big fan of Llama. It was the first notable open weights model, and paved the way for all the others. Just for that I want to say: I'm rooting for you guys. Hope an amazing Llama 5 release comes after all this pain and churn.
These sort of people do not care about any of us.
Meta is building a more powerful version of Llama that is likely not going to be open-weight anymore and will move to being closed up. [0].
You're more likely going to be using Deepseek v4 or Deepseek R2 as an open weight model than Llama 5 at this point.
[0] https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251211PD206/meta-llama-dev...