• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The revelation is bound to sting. Despite committing over half a trillion dollars over the next two years, the company’s flailing AI efforts have been plagued by rock bottom morale, infighting, high-level executive departures, and related PR crises.

    No wonder everything is shit, when Zuckerberg was convinced that building a big enough LLM he would achieve strong AI! 🤣 🤣
    AFAIK Meta had some of the biggest investments just a couple of years ago in AI on that basis! 🤥 🤡

    Ah well, Zuckerberg may be stupid, but he will not suffer much, Facebook is still a money machine, and META can afford the losses, just as they could afford the losses on the Metaverse.

    It’s worse for OpenAI, Palantir and SpaceX with XAI, because they don’t have a money machine to save them when the AI business fails.

    Google, Microsoft and Meta (facebook) will be OK.

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    I’m confused, why is Google telling customers they can’t use it’s AI? Can they not keep up with demand?

    That seems way more interesting a story than Meta relying on a competitor.

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    i kinda feel sorry for Yann LeCun and his team at FAI. he’s been saying from the beginning that LLMs are not the way forward for AI research as a field, and that has kept Meta from competing in this gold rush effectively. world models, multi-modality, etc are fine and good research but aren’t here to compete with Claude Code or even as effective at being good enough for stuff like search.

    not to be too reductionist, but it’s a tough spot when your head of AI is insisting that this tech has no future when there is a literal $T market for it.

    the irony is that these “frontier labs” like OpenAI and Anthropic have basically dropped every greenfield research project that doesn’t directly support their “agentic AI” infrastructure (ie endless Markdown prompts + a while loop) while the labs working on the true frontier are seen as failures because they can’t make a bazillion bucks burning megawatts of energy to replace their front end devs.

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      None of the frontier labs are making a bazillion bucks, nor do any of them even have a path to profitability without substantial breakthroughs in the research space.

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        i mean, people are making money. sure there are debts owed, but Mark isn’t going home to a 1br rental even after being so “humiliated”. the bag holders are the investors.

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      The article is so weirdly insistent about Zuckerberg being personally humiliated. How me might feel doesn’t really seem to be the interesting thing about the story, but it’s all “Zuckerberg BTFO! Zuckerberg on suicide watch!” font and center.

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    The Epstein class aren’t capable of that emotion. They can feel anger when they don’t get their way and pleasure at harming others and that’s about it.

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    This seems to be a tech corp script. Have one good thing, get rich, spend the next few decades failing at everything else you try.

    At some point you just have to admit you’re really shit at stuff but just got lucky once. The odds will land on someone and that’s about as special as you are.