Meta has a competitive AI model but loses its open-source identity
The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years.
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The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years.
Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) beginning in early 2023 but coming to screeching halt last year after Llama 4 debuted to mixed reviews and ultimately, admissions of gaming benchmarks. That bumpy rollout of Llama 4 apparently spurred Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to totally overhaul Meta's AI operations i.
The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, from Meta with its Llama family to Chinese labs like Qwen and z. But lately, Chinese companies have started pivoting back towards proprietary models even as some U.
Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off Vera Rubin, a sweeping new computing platform built from seven chips now in full production — and backed by an extraordinary lineup of customers that includes Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Mistral AI, along with every major cloud provider. The message to the AI industry, and to investors, was unmistakable: Nvidia is not slowing down.