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It's not a big deal. Llama 4 feels like a flop because the expectations are really high based on their previous releases and the sense of momentum in the ecosys
by root_axis 1y ago
It's not a big deal. Llama 4 feels like a flop because the expectations are really high based on their previous releases and the sense of momentum in the ecosystem because of DeepSeek. At the end of the day, LLama 4 didn't meet the elevated expectations, but they're fine. They'll continue to improve and iterate and maybe the next one will be more hype worthy, or maybe expectations will be readjusted as the specter of diminishing returns continues to creep in.
- lerchmo 1y agoThe switching costs are so low (zero) that anyone using these models just jumps to the best performer. I also agree that this is not a brand or narrative sensitive project.
- int_19h 1y agoIt feels like a flop because it is objectively worse than models many times smaller that shipped sometimes ago. In fact, it is worse than earlier LLaMA releases on may points. It's so bad that people who initially ran into it assumed that the downloaded weights must be corrupted somehow.