Meta's AI decade in one thread: FAIR, billion Llama downloads, $14.3B Scale bet
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-14
A concise summary of Meta's AI strategy: a decade of quietly staying at the frontier — building FAIR, hiring Yann LeCun, giving the world PyTorch, then releasing Llama (over 1B downloads by March 2025). After Llama 4 was mocked as a step back in April 2025, Zuckerberg treated it as an emergency: restructured into Meta Superintelligence Labs, paid $14.3B for a Scale AI stake, installed Alexandr Wang as AI chief, and launched a poaching spree on top talent.
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