Futurism.com is garbage. I think it's quite a distorted narrative: the vetting is extremely invasive, with regular face scans and passport verifications at sign up. Then maybe a lot of shit was still going through, but this narrative suggests that these companies are not at the forefront of extremely invasive worker surveillance, which is demonstrably false given the wave of class actions and privacy violation proceedings they are subject to.

🤡New Meta Logo

Plot twist in 2031: The Metaverse has a population of 22 million but they're all AI trying to sell each other Bitcoin.

Let me guess, it's an Israeli company Like that recent google one

Someone tell me I'm wrong

Come on Zuckerberg, if you sink abother $14 billion it might just pay off.

So it will fit right into Meta's work culture then!

That headline doesn’t narrow things down much.

Can't wait for it to enter the metaverse

Broccoli Top Meta-brilliance!!!

At least Scale AI isn't 700 Indians in a trenchcoat like that company Microsoft poured money into.

The research community already knows this.

Llama 4 (Meta's flagship 'AI' project) was as bad release. That's fine. This is interative research; not every experiment works out.

...But it was also a messy and dishonest one.

The release was pushed early and full of bugs. They lied about its performance, especially at long context, going so far as to game Chat Arena with a finetune. Zuckerberg hyped the snot out of it, to the point I saw ads for it on Axios.

Instead of Meta saying they'll do better, they said they're reorganizing their divisions to focus on 'applications' instead of fundamental research, aka exactly the wrong thing. They've hermmoraged good researchers and kept AI bros, far as I can tell from the outside.

Every top LLM trainer has controversies. Just recently Qwen (Alibaba) closed off their top base models just to spite Deepseek, so they can't distill them. Deepseek is almost certainly training on Google Gemini traces. Google hoards their best research for API models and has chased being sycophantic like ChatGPT. X's Grok is a joke, and muddied by Musk's constant lies about, for instance, open sourcing it. Some great outfits like 01ai (the Yi series) faded into the night.

...But I haven't seen self-destruction quite like Meta's. Especially considering the 'f you' money and GPU farm they have. They're still pushing interesting research now, but the trajectory is awful.

That has always been what Zuck does, so its not surprising.

.... I should start an AI company.

So just like Zuk and FB, sounds like they will be very happy together.