It could have been Meta

Imma write some fan fiction for a second here if you indulge me.

What we are seeing from the Chinese open models could have been Meta. As you can see from the name of this sub, they were the stars of open-source models, and the consistently poor decisions by their senior leadership just fumbled it in a way that must be studied by any other major company.

I really wish they would just go back to it. They have the compute, the data, the money, and the talent. And the thought that they will be able to monetize these closed models is just lunacy; they can't monetize anything that isn't hacking the brain's attention span to sell (allegedly) scam ads. So they should just put the fries in the bag and compete on the open-source frontier as they were doing before, and hopefully attract some real talent that is leaving other frontier labs for principled reasons. Well, to attract the said talent, they must first drop this absurd culture shift they went for out of pure desperation.

Before you come with your cope, I know LLMs aren't the only thing out there, and that they have other categories of models that are SOTA. Be real, bro. First of all, the trillion-dollar company doesn't need your defense, and most importantly, those are far from the interesting fighting ground right now.

I'm not anti-China or anything like that; I'm pro-competition, the more, the merrier and having a heavyweight like Meta back in it would be a massive win for us.

Thank you for reading my fanfic.