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Mark Zuckerberg himself appears in the list of direct contributors to Llama 3

45 points by jonbraun 2y ago

tumidpandora 2y ago
or there might be more than one zuck in meta
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cs702 2y ago
He's certainly smart enough to contribute to the work, if he had the time and wanted to do it. But in all likelihood his contribution to Llama 3 consisted of... approving Llama 3.
cachvico 2y ago
Highest paid QA in the world
- HDThoreaun 2y ago
  Mark makes $1 a year. Now if we count his dividends sure, but I wouldnt say that those are payment for his work since he'd get them if he was working or not.
  - iaw 2y ago
    No longer true.
    - metaphor 2y ago
      Assertions without cite[1; pp. 62 and 68] are less meaningful than Zuck's base salary. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124000034/meta-20240418.htm#ic0db6cb901504821837be9b73eff207d_58 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...
      - jjeaff 2y ago
        His base salary was $1. But his total compensation was around $23 million which includes his fringe benefits like personal security, private jet, health insurance, etc.
        water-your-self 2y ago
        At the end of the day he still owns 13.5% of the company on paper. Any listed compensation was already ~1/8ths his.
        metaphor 2y ago
        That's ~$24.4 million in explicit fringe benefits allocated by Meta's board; it's not like Zuck is willy-nilly exchanging family security allowance for Gucci bags. To the GP's original remark, Meta paid out a quarterly dividend of $0.50/share a few weeks ago[1]...I'm sure you can ballpark what Zuck's cut of that was. When you do, square that notional figure against the limited use total comp above and tell us why the latter even matters. [1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2023-Results-Initiates-Quarterly-Dividend/default.aspx https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
    - HDThoreaun 2y ago
      Meta pays for his security and he uses the companies pj but he doesnt take a salary and hasnt received stocks for a decade.
      - solardev 2y ago
        He uses the company's what? Pajamas?
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        elaus 2y ago
        I never quite understand why people use ambiguous or uncommon abbreviations in comments. In this case I'm pretty sure they were talking about private jets (because it was spelled out in another comment), but I can't image most persons talk THAT much about private jets that they are used to that abbreviation.
- IncreasePosts 2y ago
  Eh, poor guys base salary pathetic, like $1/yr
Havoc 2y ago
He does seem genuinely passionate about it during interviews so makes sense that he spent some time on it
treypitt 2y ago
it's like in Silicon Valley when Erlich puts on his carpal tunnel gloves and finally starts contributing to the Pied Piper codebase
p1esk 2y ago
Not sure why would this be surprising, he built a smart assistant in 2016: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal-smart-home-assistant-jarvis-works-2016-12?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal...
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rurban 2y ago
https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/commits?author=zuck https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/commits?author=zuck turns up empty though. Maybe he just paid them

45 points by jonbraun 2y ago

tumidpandora 2y ago

or there might be more than one zuck in meta

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cs702 2y ago

He's certainly smart enough to contribute to the work, if he had the time and wanted to do it. But in all likelihood his contribution to Llama 3 consisted of... approving Llama 3.

cachvico 2y ago

Highest paid QA in the world

HDThoreaun 2y ago
Mark makes $1 a year. Now if we count his dividends sure, but I wouldnt say that those are payment for his work since he'd get them if he was working or not.
- iaw 2y ago
  No longer true.
  - metaphor 2y ago
    Assertions without cite[1; pp. 62 and 68] are less meaningful than Zuck's base salary. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124000034/meta-20240418.htm#ic0db6cb901504821837be9b73eff207d_58 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680124...
    - jjeaff 2y ago
      His base salary was $1. But his total compensation was around $23 million which includes his fringe benefits like personal security, private jet, health insurance, etc.
      - water-your-self 2y ago
        At the end of the day he still owns 13.5% of the company on paper. Any listed compensation was already ~1/8ths his.
      - metaphor 2y ago
        That's ~$24.4 million in explicit fringe benefits allocated by Meta's board; it's not like Zuck is willy-nilly exchanging family security allowance for Gucci bags. To the GP's original remark, Meta paid out a quarterly dividend of $0.50/share a few weeks ago[1]...I'm sure you can ballpark what Zuck's cut of that was. When you do, square that notional figure against the limited use total comp above and tell us why the latter even matters. [1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2024/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2023-Results-Initiates-Quarterly-Dividend/default.aspx https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
  - HDThoreaun 2y ago
    Meta pays for his security and he uses the companies pj but he doesnt take a salary and hasnt received stocks for a decade.
    - solardev 2y ago
      He uses the company's what? Pajamas?
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      - elaus 2y ago
        I never quite understand why people use ambiguous or uncommon abbreviations in comments. In this case I'm pretty sure they were talking about private jets (because it was spelled out in another comment), but I can't image most persons talk THAT much about private jets that they are used to that abbreviation.
IncreasePosts 2y ago
Eh, poor guys base salary pathetic, like $1/yr

Havoc 2y ago

He does seem genuinely passionate about it during interviews so makes sense that he spent some time on it

treypitt 2y ago

it's like in Silicon Valley when Erlich puts on his carpal tunnel gloves and finally starts contributing to the Pied Piper codebase

p1esk 2y ago

Not sure why would this be surprising, he built a smart assistant in 2016: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal-smart-home-assistant-jarvis-works-2016-12?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-personal...

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rurban 2y ago

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/commits?author=zuck https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/commits?author=zuck turns up empty though. Maybe he just paid them