Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model
that may be changing Robert Brown / implicator.ai : From Altruism to Arms Race: Meta's AI Strategy Takes a Closed Turn Bluesky: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler.com : Yeah... (from a couple weeks back) [embedded post] X: Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes : who on earth could have guessed it (everyone) Harlan Stewart / @humanharlan : So you're telling me the billions they spend trying to build godlike AI is NOT because they love fairness and want to give everyone their own god for free???? Damn. You think you know someone. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : in hindsight meta's open-source (really just open-weights) just was probably a tactic to recruit people. didn't work. they lost ground, anyway. so to hell with that. they are back to closed. Shane Gu / @shaneguml : RIP to the unicorn AI startups that have zero products, zero foundation models, and were just going to depend on big labs releasing open-source models for free to model merge. I know one or two. [image] Bindu Reddy / @bindureddy : The new ultra-rich crew are considering abandoning open-source at Meta 🥲 They are already nowhere on the map and abandoning open source will lose them the few fans they have 🤷♀️ Disappointing [image] Rohan Paul / @rohanpaul_ai : It had to happen. After all, these are financed by a humongous amount of money. Meta's top lab members, including Alexandr Wang, mulled dropping Behemoth, the company's premier open model, for a closed version “We're obviously very pro open source, but I haven't committed to [image] Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage : Google maybe on track to outlast everyone in open sourcing LMs (small ones at least) @modestproposal1 : Zuck on Dwarkesh in April: “So you're seeing a bunch of other players start to do some work in open source. But it's unclear if it's dabbling, or fundamental for them the way that it has been for us.” [image] Ethan Mollick / @emollick : There are lots of very good small models being released out of the US (Phi, Gemma) but those are not frontier large models. Ethan Mollick / @emollick : And with this, the US is mostly out of the frontier open source large LLM race. Europe has one contender, otherwise it is all China now. (OpenAI is going to release an open LLM soon, but no commitment yet to that being an ongoing effort). [image] Eli Tan / @elitanjourno : SCOOP: Top members of Meta's new Superintelligence team, including Alex Wang, want to create a new, closed model and abandon Behemoth, the delayed open source Llama model. The new team of highly paid researchers met this week in an office space siloed from the rest of the [image] Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg : For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. … Forums: r/LocalLLaMA : Meta's New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes BeauHD / Slashdot : Meta's Superintelligence Lab Considers Shift To Closed AI Model See also Mediagazer