Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers(www.wsj.com)
31 pointsby mekpro3 hours ago6 comments
  • zeroonetwothreean hour ago
    I’ve used it at Meta. It’s very bad, if they released it in its current state it would be laughed at. I imagine they need to improve quality massively before it’s viable to release.
    • leosanchez20 minutes ago
      But didn't Zuck say it will replace junior to mid level engineers on Joe Rogan podcast or something ?
  • enahs-sf2 hours ago
    Occam’s razor tells me it’s probably because it’s not good. Perhaps running a company like survivor in a pressure cooker is not an effective management strategy.
    • GoToROan hour ago
      Also when you finally make it better, the others make theirs even better and you are still behind.
  • ilakshan hour ago
    The article makes it unclear if they are building a new model or if it's just the API. But I am guessing it's the API.

    So it's "release to developers" rather than "new AI model". They cannot ship the API.

    I would assume you would just provide an OpenAI compatible endpoint or two? But maybe they are not doing it that way.

    Who knows what they are doing though. Maybe Meta has some kind of global API mesh thing and they can't quite make it work with vLLM or Sglang or something. Maybe they are building out a whole metered cloud IaaS for AI from scratch and that's just how long it takes. Maybe it's not technical complexity and just one of the managers is a problem.

    Maybe they are delaying the API release until another more competitive model finishes training and testing.

    • mekpro37 minutes ago
      API server is not hard problem and not make sense for indefinite postpone. I think the more likely explanation is model quality.

      Too bad for Meta, and very sad day Llama.

  • havaloc28 minutes ago
    If you spend more than 1 minute on Facebook, you realize what they are potentially training their data on, and it is not good. Their advertising algorithm is very good, I'll give them that.
  • ramshanker35 minutes ago
    If they release a model comparable to OpenAI / Antropic, will there be any reason left for 1T valuation of other companies? At that point, it will simply become Revenue proportional to Gigawatts available. Whoever got the energy wins.
    • verdverm18 minutes ago
      DeepSeek and friends already exists, yet $1T valuations still exist. I think we are nearing a point where inference and cost metrics become the primary optimization for a while. Both capacity and costs are going to drive it from the demand side. I've personally moved to open weights already, now setting up vendor calls to make them available at work.

      Talking with OpenCode and Fireworks, appreciate any recommendations that have SOC-2 and the like

      • killingtime746 minutes ago
        CloudFlare host the best models (Deepseek/Kimi)