Techmeme: QUOTE: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg mulls more shake-ups to Meta's AI strategy; he lost faith in Meta's AI team during the controversy over allegations

Techmeme: QUOTE: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg mulls more shake-ups to Meta's AI strategy; he lost faith in Meta's AI team during the controversy over allegations it gamed benchmarks. ... While the predecessor, Llama 3, was a hit with developers, they haven’t taken to Llama 4 because it’s seen by some as more difficult to customize and integrate into their apps. That’s resulted in many coders preferring Llama 3 over its successor, people familiar with the matter said. Additionally, Zuckerberg lost confidence in his generative AI team and its leadership in part due to a controversy over whether Meta may have gamed certain industry AI benchmark tests, the people said. Llama 4′s struggles can be traced back to January, when the sudden rise and ensuing popularity of the open-source R1 AI model by DeepSeek caught Meta off guard, leading to a reevaluation of Llama’s underlying architecture, the people said. /QUOTE