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Meta abandons AI?
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Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. .
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What Meta’s AI hiring freeze means for other models
Remember Meta’s massive AI hiring push we told you about in June? Nine-figure offers. Champagne dinners at Zuck’s house. Massage therapists for your dog (we’re speculating). Well, so much for that.
Multiple outlets reported that the hiring spree is over amid a company-wide reorg. But it’s the below-the-headline news we’re interested in:
The team that built Llama, Meta’s open-source model, is being dissolved and several prominent team members have left. The failure of Llama to make waves is ostensibly what prompted the hiring push in the first place. Shortly after launch, Zuckerberg began poaching employees from OpenAI, Google, Apple, xAI, and Anthropic. In June, he hired Scale co-founder Alexander Wang to be Meta’s chief AI officer.
Wang and co are ditching Meta’s Llama-based frontier model, Behemoth, and starting from scratch. Per The New York Times: “Behemoth’s release was delayed last spring after disappointing performance tests.”
The new AI model may not be open-source. In fact, the company is reportedly even “activelyexploring using third-party artificial intelligence models” for its own products — either by building on open-source models or licensing closed ones.
The takeaway is that no one knows which building philosophy Meta will embrace as it tries to catch up in the AI race. And while Meta probably won’t try to buy OpenAI — something Elon Musk tried to team up with Zuckerberg to do earlier this year — we’re not betting our Zuck Bucks on it.
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Nika asks: should Apple team up with Google and plug Gemini into Siri, or go solo and catch up the hard way?
She cites reports of early talks with Google, notes Apple has also weighed Anthropic and OpenAI, and points to talent leaks as the pressure behind a deal. The real question for the room is simple: if Apple partners, who’s the right pick and why, and if it doesn’t, how does Siri close the gap without blowing up privacy or price? Jump in with your takJump in and drop your question
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