Post says Meta could have become legendary with an open-weight Kimi K3-class model
signulll · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that if Mark Zuckerberg had followed Meta’s original plan and shipped an open-weights model at roughly Kimi K3’s level, he could have cemented a legendary place in AI history.
Instead, the author says Meta pivoted toward becoming an AI compute provider, framing it as a major historical fork: from the creator of Facebook to the company that might have made intelligence far cheaper and more broadly accessible.
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