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Meta, please go back to publishing weights. Your models aren't top-tier, this wouldn't hurt you at all at your current position in the rankings. They wouldn't h

by ersiees 1mo ago

Meta, please go back to publishing weights. Your models aren't top-tier, this wouldn't hurt you at all at your current position in the rankings. They wouldn't have the best open-weight models, but the best western open-weight models.

embedding-shape 1mo ago
> the best western open-weight models If they were sitting on that and could release those, they for sure would. AFAIK, they still haven't released Llama 4 Behemoth, so kind of feels like it's evident what has happened, they aren't able to compete anymore.
- qlte 1mo ago
  Would they? To me it feels like we’re past the dreamy early days of the AI boom (in the US) and now investors want to see the tech monopolies actually start building the new cash printing machines they’ve been promising with the hundreds of billions in capex burned over the last few years. Maybe a Gemma sized model that couldn’t self-cannibalize but releasing a top open Kimi K3 sized model seems like it could start to wear on Meta investors’ patience without signaling how it fits into a new profitable business line.
  - lenerdenator 1mo ago
    > Meta investors’ patience Let's not get ahead of ourselves here: this is Meta. Mark Zuckerberg holds majority control of the company, and so far, he does what he wants with it. This is up to and including what was essentially a digital real estate scam, overhiring during the pandemic, automated CSAM distribution, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and engagement tactics that might have fed into ethnic violence against Rohingya in Myanmar. If he simply wanted to release a frontier-class open-weight model and offer a paid hosting service for those who wanted to run it off-prem, that would be, far and away, the least patience-wearing thing he's done to the bag-holders who hold the rest of the shares in Meta.

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Meta, please go back to publishing weights. Your models aren't top-tier, this wouldn't hurt you at all at your current position in the rankings. They wouldn't h

by ersiees 1mo ago

embedding-shape 1mo ago
> the best western open-weight models If they were sitting on that and could release those, they for sure would. AFAIK, they still haven't released Llama 4 Behemoth, so kind of feels like it's evident what has happened, they aren't able to compete anymore.
- qlte 1mo ago
  Would they? To me it feels like we’re past the dreamy early days of the AI boom (in the US) and now investors want to see the tech monopolies actually start building the new cash printing machines they’ve been promising with the hundreds of billions in capex burned over the last few years. Maybe a Gemma sized model that couldn’t self-cannibalize but releasing a top open Kimi K3 sized model seems like it could start to wear on Meta investors’ patience without signaling how it fits into a new profitable business line.
  - lenerdenator 1mo ago
    > Meta investors’ patience Let's not get ahead of ourselves here: this is Meta. Mark Zuckerberg holds majority control of the company, and so far, he does what he wants with it. This is up to and including what was essentially a digital real estate scam, overhiring during the pandemic, automated CSAM distribution, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and engagement tactics that might have fed into ethnic violence against Rohingya in Myanmar. If he simply wanted to release a frontier-class open-weight model and offer a paid hosting service for those who wanted to run it off-prem, that would be, far and away, the least patience-wearing thing he's done to the bag-holders who hold the rest of the shares in Meta.