"the company admitted it likely won’t be able to keep up with competing models."

"As such, the announcement is a bit of an enigma: if it can’t keep up with the competition, why release it at all? There’s a good change Meta is just trying to get its foot in the door — or a “seat at the big kid’s table,” as Wired put it. The company has struggled to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape" "Meta’s preceding Llama open source models largely failed to catch on, with a major controversy last year finding that Meta may have faked benchmark results to make its Llama 4 model seem more capable than it actually was."

Would make it much easier for them to do their evil deeds and us to aim our "activism" at them ;)

After reading this article I was super convinced and decided to click that "See Ray-Ban Meta at Amazon" at the end of it to make a purchase ;)

My prediction is a clear NO! Maybe with a 0 in front ;)

Just like many other social media corporations #Reddit is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.

To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)

🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing #DeMeta Reddit community on a journey into the #Fediverse!

People can now also DeMeta on #Lemmy:

@DeMeta

https://lemmy.world/c/DeMeta

#Privacy #News #Happy #SocialMedia #celebration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #MetaAI #Threads #Announcement #verification #Internet

So essentially Meta imagines a world, in which people don't even have to write their own messages to family and friends anymore?

Like we are not talking useless emails read by a bot here!