Meta's Zuckerberg Directs Pivot to Money-Making AI Model

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00:00The story with Meta typically is they hire, you know, ex-AI expert from Apple. They've hired up

00:06so much talent. You'd think that they have an insane bench and that things are going smoothly.

00:10Does this suggest that things are not going so smoothly with Meta and their development of

00:15their AI offering? Well, in the first instance, when the story hit, there was a kind of strange

00:20algo spike and then drop in the shares, but we're now down one and a half percent. So it's difficult

00:25to interpret the market's read on Meta shifting to closed model. What Kurt Wagner and Riley

00:31Griffin, our colleagues, are reporting is a lot of detail about the specific model, Avocado,

00:37which had originally been planned as an open model and, according to sources, may launch as a closed

00:42model. It's interesting in the technology development side because what Meta did was take models from

00:48others, including, you know, Alibaba's Gwen model, for example, and use that existing work to distill

00:54model and prepare their own model. That's something that, you know, Frontier Labs do all

00:59the time. But it's not new, the idea that Meta might go from a very clear open source approach

01:05to close. Mark Zuckerberg talked about it in July's earnings call, basically saying at some

01:10point in an open source world, the models are so big and the resource requirements are

01:15so high. What's the point? Academics don't have the funds to work at that scale. And really,

01:22it's only relevant to private industry if you're working on a model that has that level of parameter

01:28and requirement.