Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg published a memo outlining his vision to build AI “super-smart”. He cites “security issues”, and he wrote that the Yuan people needed to “strictly” what they open and have nothing. This line stands out because Zuckerberg makes Meta’s open source approach to AI is very important.
In fact, his comments are different from what he wrote almost a year ago in another memo called “Open Source AI is the Way Forward.” He said open source is crucial to both meta and developers.
The new memo is curved, and Zuckerberg commented on the Meta Q2 earnings call, saying nothing particularly changed. The company has been “open sourced some of our models, not everything we do,” he said.
We have a series of comments this Friday and there are more to review later today. Are Meta’s Oakley Glasses worth the extra money? Should Insta360 be afraid of DJI’s new camera? Continue reading!
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