> What’s Meta’s strategy here? What’s their vision?
The metaverse was their strategy. Then AI hype took over Silicon Valley and the unloved under-resourced AI team at Facebook became the stars of the show. Meta are now standing on the shoulders of those teams and the good will they generated from their foundational and open research efforts.
An AI first strategy from Facebook would not have involved a rebrand or open sourcing any research or models and would probably have looked a lot like OpenAi or Grok.
The metaverse was their strategy. Then AI hype took over Silicon Valley and the unloved under-resourced AI team at Facebook became the stars of the show. Meta are now standing on the shoulders of those teams and the good will they generated from their foundational and open research efforts.
An AI first strategy from Facebook would not have involved a rebrand or open sourcing any research or models and would probably have looked a lot like OpenAi or Grok.