Everyone has been loving to shit on the Alexander Wang acquisition but this seems legitimately impressive to me?

Meta's AI org when from a total mismanaged dumpster fire for multiple years to delivering a competitive model in less than a year on essentially their first try?

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postalcoder 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not their first try. There’s been reporting about how they’ve kept pushing their model releases back because of underwhelming performance.

	▲	anthonypasq 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		... i dont think internal iteration counts dude. thats just called in-development.

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paxys 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is it their first try? They were leading the race with Llama 3.x a few years ago.

	▲	anthonypasq 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As far as i remember, the entire AI org was essentially gutted and replaced with whoever Wang wanted to hire, and tbh that org completely failed to train llama 4 and I honestly doubt whatever techniques they used to ship llama 3 are at all relevant now. That was before reasoning models and the heavy emphasis on RL/post-training. so yeah, this is essentially their first try with a completely new org.
	▲	rsstack 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They were leading the race in a niche category a few years ago. Now they are, according to some benchmarks, even on the right playing field.