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Opinion
Patel: Meta treats Llama as a toy rather than approaching AGI correctly
“I think they're treating it as like a sort of like toy within the meta universe. And I don't think that's the correct way to think about AGI.”
Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 46:18 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Opinion
Kantrowitz: Meta failed to convincingly build voice and avatars with Llama
“Meta has been trying extremely hard to build voice and avatars with Lama, and it hasn't been able to do it convincingly.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 21, 2025 ▶ 10:00 Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
Insight
Kuyda: AI product startups should fine-tune open models, not build foundation models
“If you can fine tune a llama based model and focus on the logic, the product, the application layer on what you are, what value you're actually providing to the user versus training your own model that becomes obsolete in three months and requires incredible, …”
Eugenia Kuyda Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 36:04 Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: Attention on Meta's Llama has dropped amid DeepSeek's surge
“As deep sea continues to surge, the conversation around Meta's llama models has certainly fallen off in a big way.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 26:53 Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
Prediction Held up
Patel: Meta's next Llama model will match DeepSeek-V3's cost efficiency
“And Meta's Meta is going to release their new llama soon enough. Right. And that one is going to be, you know, a similar level of cost decrease probably similar areas, deep seek V three.”
Dylan Patel Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 30:27 Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel
Insight
Enterprise AI ROI requires targeted micro-models arbitrating between large foundational models
“Can you now devolve or basically create a micro model that's very targeted to your business? That basically was a recipe. So how do I look at what's happening within, you know, within a CHATGP versus Gemini? How do I start looking at Lama differently? And that…”
Antoine Shagoury Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 28:32 Implementing AI In The Real World — With Kyndryl's Antoine Shagoury
Disclosure
Bosworth Strongly Advocated Internally For Meta To Open-Source LLaMA
“I was one of the loudest voices internally to channel, encouraging us to open source Llama one, Llama two.”
Andrew Bosworth Oct 4, 2024 ▶ 36:45 Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
Insight
Pineau: LLaMA alone cannot power smart glasses without physical world grounding
“LAMA on its own doesn't make for the best, ah, the best assistant on, on glasses, because it doesn't have enough of an understanding of the physical world of images, ah, and so on.”
Joelle Pineau Jan 24, 2024 ▶ 17:36 Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
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