Meta to open source its most powerful AI model as it takes swipe at OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/meta-muse-glimmer-open-weight-ai.html

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paraphrand@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 18d (3 replies)

Meta said it would open source its most powerful AI models and launch new ones designed for consumer devices, as it looks to rival leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. 

In an Instagram video posted Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would open the weights[…]

These paragraphs contradict each other.

No one actually knows what open source means. Yet so many random people use the word. Including reporters.

joe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d (2 replies)

Do they contradict each other? They might use a broader definition of "open source" than you prefer, but it doesn't seem contradictory.

But, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 15d (1 reply)

The only people looking to expand open source to mean things like open weights, are the same as people looking to have AI be a thing.

joe@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 15d

The only people that think AI isn't a thing are people terrified about AI being a thing.

vane@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 17d (3 replies)

They are open sourcing it only because it's not first on list. Change my mind.

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d

Yup. They're only doing this because they're losing and hoping it makes people use their open weight model instead.

iceberg314@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 16d (1 reply)

I think they're open sourcing it because they actually make all their money from content recommendation and ad placement models

LLMs are just a side gig for them

vane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d

$150B per year side gig. Nice.

Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 17 pts · 17d

Open weight, not open source. Still rather cool but not the same at all.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 17d (3 replies)

Open weight is not open source, and therefore not to be used.

Open Source or GTFO

sanitation@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 17d (2 replies)

They can't. Why do you want them to - show all the stolen data?
Max u can get is open weight

fluxx@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 17d

Endgame is training data is audited and ethically or at least legally acquired for ALL companies making models.

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 17d

OLMO is full FOSS

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 9 pts · 18d

Meta [...] its most powerful AI models

The ones we all laughed at last week?

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17d

Make it open weights. Corporations puts it in their stacks. Remove open source in future versions. Profit....

The China method.

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 14d

Now you yourself can host it at home on your 800GB graphics card

Miller@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 18d

Has it got a powerful AI model, it should let people use that then rather than the dreadful one it hawks now.