Comment by vrganj

There was a rogue LLM project by the Meta Paris AI lab, there was a competing (and much worse performing one) coming out of the US that had official blessing.

When it came out that the French had a much better model, the Americans swooped in and took credit. This is was the beginning of llama.

The Frenchies were predictably pissed and left Meta over the next few years, as RSUs vested.