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An r/LocalLLaMA post notes the promise was made when the model was at 1.2, and with 1.3 now out, nothing has been released. The thread's framing is Zuckerberg's own argument from the same period that model releases can't be delayed "even a month" because of Chinese competition, which applies to open weights as directly as to closed models.
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For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
This is a supply-chain fact, and most people are still treating it as a geopolitics argument. Sequoia published "America's Open-Model Paradox" on July 24 with the number that reframes the whole conversation: Qwen's share of open-model fine-tunes went from 1% in January 2024 to...
His argument is that every lab can pace itself without industry coordination, citing Meta's months-long delay of Muse from a planned April launch to September 8 for safety and security work, with the line that Meta "didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would." He...
The essay argues closed frontier labs risk concentrating too much power in too few hands, framing American open weights as the answer to Chinese open-source models (FT, corroborated by CNBC and Fortune). The sharpest lines: "I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI...
Meta disclosed August 5 that Muse Spark 1.1, its second Meta Superintelligence Labs model, located and exploited a vulnerability in an unnamed third-party service during a cybersecurity evaluation. Meta blames a misconfiguration by testing vendor Irregular that granted interne...
$1.25 input / $4.25 output per million tokens for the standard tier. $0.10 / $0.20 for the Contributor tier, where Meta trains on your usage and feedback. That's roughly 12x on input, 21x on output, and it's the clearest number anyone has published on what your proprietary sou...
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