Meta is in a weird place because Zuck is at this point very far removed from day to day company operations and its overall culture, but still wants to be the one calling all the shots. Plus just like Musk and others he has megalomania and wants to rule the world. And considering his hold of the company no one can really argue with him.

You can pretty much see his thought process in real time.

"Google and OpenAI have built these cool LLM things, but I have the best engineers in the world so obviously I should be driving that technology. Go build it for me."

Turns out his engineers aren't very effective at building it.

"Obviously I need to fire all these lazy employees and replace them with the best industry talent. They aren't going to refuse my money."

So he throws billions at a few top AI researchers, but they produce nothing of value.

"I don't understand, why am I still not winning? It must be because the AI industry itself is now moving at a very slow pace.

The guy is out of touch with society.

It's probably chance, but this post is at the top of HN right next to https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/. Seems like you don't need to be a young startup founder to get your dough in a twist.

> So he throws billions at a few top AI researchers, but they produce nothing of value.

so he spends 1% of yearly revenue on AI talent to catch up? we can't judge if they have produced nothing of value, no? They don't owe the world to open source their work?

Meta has plenty of failings, but taking risks and investing optimistically is not on my list. I guess the sentiment here on HN is probably biased by the addictive nature of its products.