Researcher calls out Meta for releasing a model without pricing, calling it misleading
eliebakouch · x · 2026-10-15
HF researcher Elie Bakouch notes this is the first model release to ship without a pricing axis — scores without cost, making comparisons misleading. His rough cost-vs-score estimate seems plausible, but he urges official pricing and an x-cost/y-score plot, tagging Alexandr Wang and Mark Zuckerberg to fix it.
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