None of that makes sense.

What's the end goal? Meta-specific engineering, with baked-in knowledge of how FB, Threads, and WhatsApp work? General and/or coding products to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI? Some special Magic Thing which only Meta can invent which will bedazzle Meta's users?

You don't need giant datasets unless you know what you're going to do with them. OpAI and Anthropic are having enough issues making their products profitable. And those are, if not beloved, then at least respected, with a real, if patchy, reputation for usefulness.

What was Meta's pitch in this market? There were hints of interest when LeCun was still doing original R&D, and there was some distant possibility of a next-gen revolutionary product.

But now the goal seems to be to flail around doing something incoherently AI-branded with no obvious strategy.

The troops are being marched around, but no one knows where the battle is supposed to be.