Meta had the resource curse just like with Metaverse and VR headsets.
replyMeanwhile Chinese labs were forced to innovate with more efficient models.
> At the time the whole thing was led by Yann LeCun
replyHe was not in charge of the Meta LLM stuff, from anything i've read over the past few years.
He was their “chief AI scientist” (what an abomination of a title) and led FAIR. Maybe it’s true he was not working on LLMs but I can’t even imagine what more important thing he could be doing at Meta.
replyWhich brings me to my other point. If you want to compete with serious labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Alibaba) you need to be smart and focused, not messing around.