Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta return... by numpad0 on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:43PM (#49248684)

Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak, and weren't there speculations that Zuckerberg himself might be involved in it? He does seem like a good-ish guy at the most crucial moments of truths.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta return... by magicalist on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:10PM (#49249780)

> Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak

> and weren't there speculations that Zuckerberg himself might be involved in it

and no. Meta legal was issuing DMCA notices within days (so, plenty of time for execs, including Zuckerberg, to sign off on, or even propose, that strategy).

> He does seem like a good-ish guy at the most crucial moments of truths.

Does he? I can't seem to recall any particular crucial moments that revealed any underlying character there.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta return... by dragonwriter on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:11PM (#49249799)

> Wasn't LLaMA or Llama 2 the first ever open weight LLM through a leak

No. GPT-2, I think, was the first, four(ish) years before Llama, and there were a bunch in between GPT-2 and the Llama leak and later open release. The Llama leak was a substantial leap forward in capacity for local LLMs, but not the first, and it wasn’t open.

The open licensed release was Llama 2 several months after the Llama leak.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta return... by numpad0 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:58AM (#49269146)

My apologies, looks like I just completely forgot about GPT-2...

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