alt Hacker NewsI heard this is the talk in town these days. Why can't Meta keep up? With >10000000x more resources you'd think that they'd be able to introduce equally performant if not better open weight models
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Because lack of talent and organizational disfunction matters a lot more than you think. The reason why OAI and Ant are always at the top is because of this and I’d say compute is third on the list.
because imagine starting work every week and finding that your dumb ass CEO pivoted the company again and is ruining other peoples lives, and he then reorgs the management again so you now have your 5th leader this year.
Morale and momentum are huge things in companies, Zuck has been murdering both of those in Meta since... well naming it Meta.
At this point in time what does meta get from releasing open weight models? Why devote the resources to it.
The cynic in me says maybe they would be further along if they hadn't spent $80 billion on trying to build the "Metaverse" VR world. I've never met anyone who actually uses it and to the best of my knowledge it has very low mass market uptake.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/mark-z...
Not exactly the best use of dollars and the labor hours of some of the best minds of our generation.