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Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy
Sure, they kinda sorta acquired Scale AI too.
But there are massive economies of scale (GPUs, data access) that make it hard for newcomers to compete, and using an LLM is effectively free 5 so consumers have no stickiness and will always go for the best option. Meanwhile, even though Meta has done some really good research (including the SAM model family), they haven't really been competitive at the top of the LLM AI world since the release of Llama 2.0 back in 2023. Meta had a small but rabid contingent of open source developers, hobbyists, and researchers who were pushing the boundaries of what LLMs could do in all sorts of neat and exciting ways.
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