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Five men control AI. Who should control them?
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I'm pretty surprised to see Zuckerberg included in this group in 2026. His company is totally irrelevant in the AI space now since the only relevancy they had was due to releasing their model weights publicly.
The llama 4 model was a complete failure that was already obsolete on release, and since then, they've stopped releasing model weights to the public. They haven't shown any ability to produce a competitive model since llama 3, which is now very old in AI timescales.
It's really interesting that they blundered so hard, because releasing model weights was a huge win for them that gave them early dominance over local and open source AI tooling and workflows. Most of their talent has abandoned ship, and now they have no talent, no competitive models, and no marketshare of local AI, right at a time when closed/cloud AI providers are becoming prohibitively expensive and inaccessible and local AI is taking off.
They'll probably be a textbook case study in how to fuck up, someday.