Meta Bought a Headache

Six months ago, Meta bet the farm. Okay, maybe not the entire business, but certainly the farm that their precious "Llama" was living on. After what seemed like endless touting of how their "open source" approach to AI was right and that their models were "crushing it", the nearly $15B deal to "hackquire" Scale AI made it quite clear that their AI work to date was actually "sus". So how are things going?

Not great, Zuck. As Eli Tan reports today for The New York Times, there are seemingly tensions galore internally at Meta – most notably between Meta's $15B man, Alexandr Wang, and Zuck's OG lieutenants in CPO Chris Cox and CTO Andrew Bosworth. Both are at or near 20 years at Facebook/Meta, but the whippersnapper with six months tenures is whipping and snapping, it seems...