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Surprised it took this long. I feel bad for the employees, but I can’t remember the last success they had. Metaverse, VR, throwing absurd money at AI and for wh
by PlanksVariable 7mo ago
Surprised it took this long. I feel bad for the employees, but I can’t remember the last success they had. Metaverse, VR, throwing absurd money at AI and for what?
- jameskilton 7mo agoMark Zuckerberg is no longer the kingmaker that he was during Facebook's peak, and he is desperately trying to create the next platform to be the one in power once again. It would be sad if it wasn't so unbelievably destructive to everything it touches.
- abuani 7mo agoCurious to see how they can turn moltbook into a money maker. Do they sell ads to agents?
- csimon80 7mo agoMy guess is data collection. Maybe the data can be used to improve or train agents.
- operatingthetan 7mo agoWasn't it primarily acqui-hire? Meta's AI strategy is what exactly? The best time for them to release a Chat GPT clone was 2 years ago. The second best time is today.
- FartyMcFarter 7mo agoThey have a ChatGPT clone app already, but it's not very good. I tried asking it some technical questions that Gemini can handle just fine, and it quickly started giving false information and contradictions.
- jimbob45 7mo agoLlama should be mentioned in the same conversations that ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek dominate. If only it wasn’t so inaccessible…
- FartyMcFarter 7mo agoThey have an app for it. I think it's as accessible as any of the other models you mentioned. It's just not as good.
- wolvoleo 7mo agoNot so good right now but they haven't released one in a while. Llama 3.1 was pretty great when it came out.
- the_black_hand 7mo agoYeah strategy is weird. PyTorch and llama 1-3 were strong successes. Llama 4 was a dud but that happens sometimes. Google fumbles a few times before Gemini too. What I don’t get is why they didn’t prioritize those projects. They weren’t making money, but it was a solid start and a good way to get a foothold in the game. Instead they’ve gone balls deep in slop bullshit.
- chaostheory 7mo agoIts surveillance business seems to be growing.
- simianwords 7mo agothreads?
- MSFT_Edging 7mo agoyou don't often see screenshots of threads posts on other sites like you do twitter/bluesky.
- nickthegreek 7mo agoSure, but I’d argue that 140m dau, 400m mau is still success.
- 12_throw_away 7mo agoConsidering the overall impact of Threads, those statistics are certainly ... interesting.
- 10xDev 7mo agoIt is somewhat integrated to Instagram with billions of active users. Not saying a whole lot.
- throw-the-towel 7mo agoI do.
- yacin 7mo agoalso just another clear ripoff. they copy, they acquire, but they cannot seem to innovate.
- tim-projects 7mo agoMeta seem fairly innovative. Their r&d labs seem to produce some really cool things. The basic issue is none of it seems to be making any money when it ends up in products and services. Main reason there seems to be that their walled garden approach is tolerated at best. They just aren't very good at it outside of a feed.
- paxys 7mo agoTheir last success was acquiring Instagram in 2012. Every new effort since then has been hemorrhaging money. They get away with it because they have two limitless money faucets in Facebook and Instagram, but their product strategy as a whole has been a disaster.
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoIt would be incredible to think that Mark Zuckerberg genuinely thought their Metaverse/VR investment was going to be akin to Xerox's bayarea PARC campus (developer of modern networking / GUI &c). I guess both were ultimately profit-negative financial disasters.
- jordanb 7mo agoWatching their demo video was the perfect encapsulation of "this was not made for users" I have ever seen. First of all the idea of hanging out in a digital world with Mark Zuckerberg is so bleak. I can't imagine a worse hang. But other than that, it was all about working in a digital office, being advertised to, etc. They had this scene where one of Zuck's definitely-real friends is excited about "this new street art" on the digital wall that jumps off the wall and they interact with it. Imagine having popup ads that jump up at you when you're walking (gliding?) down the street!
- dasil003 7mo agoIn other words they haven't really pushed the vision forward since the Jaws 19 hologram in Back To The Future 2.
- nradov 7mo agoI guess they read William Gibson's 2007 novel Spook Country and tried to build that. It had virtual street art as a plot device. https://williamgibsonbooks.com/#books https://williamgibsonbooks.com/#books
- schrodinger 7mo agoIt's easy to get caught up in your own hype when you're surrounded entirely by people who always tell you what you want to hear.
- kypro 7mo agoTheir Libra cryptocurrency project is another example.
- nradov 7mo agoThere seems to be slightly less comment spam and pig butchering fake profiles on Facebook lately so maybe that counts as a minor success? It might not look impressive from the outside but it's technically challenging and helps to keep the advertising revenue rolling in.
- oneseventwonine 7mo agoI think their Meta Glasses are genuinely good, great form factor. I mainly use it to take photos or videos and not much their "Meta AI"