Comment by everdrive
3 months ago
I don't like Zuckerberg whatsoever, but there are plenty of reasons you could potentially care about his opinion:
- He could be well-placed to see whether AI agent development is successful since at a high level he oversees much of it, and will be getting detailed metrics and things.
- Whether or not his opinion is correct, tech CEOs are notorious trend-chasers, and his opinion could set the tone for other companies.
- He himself might even be a trend-follower in this case, and is presiding over an early dialing-back of AI-hype.
Honest question, is there a single successful large investment made by Meta recently ? I just know about the abject failures :)
llama has been generally useful.
llama was unintentionally released and has been a flash in the pan for them since. They've failed to capitalize on it at all post-v2. v3 models were a launch mess and quickly surpassed. The only thing it has left in 2026 is name recognition. Honestly their non-LLM things are more important and relevant, like their SAM models. https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/ but none of these seem to be making them serious money or exist and standalone products.
for "the rest of us" building certain kinds of systems on top of it.
as integrated into Meta's platforms it is clearly uncompetitive as a consumer chatbot with the likes of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini.
Like the other chatbots give me useful answers to questions even if they're wrong sometimes. Meta AI, on the other hand, cracks jokes about my foxwork. That's no so bad because sketch comedy is one of the foxwork skill areas (e.g. if I get you to laugh you are under my spell) but it's not useful and edifying the way competitors are.
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Maybe the glasses. After other companies have failed, they may have something here.
Meta retooled all their internal models to be LEM / LLM based recently.
Meta Glasses might be the next big thing.
AR/VR is the next big thing since 2015, the cumulated revenues since then don't even match the yearly revenues they were predicting for 2020 alone. This is going to end up like 3d TVs
Any day now.
And it is even worst than Facebook and Social Media. We are doomed.
glasses maybe but not meta glasses. Its not like meta has some patent on it.
Rayban glasses with the HUD in your eyeglass will go mainstream when they get a 10 hr battery instead of the 1.5 hr battery of today.
- Whether or not his opinion is correct, tech CEOs are notorious trend-chasers, and his opinion could set the tone for other companies
exactly why I won't listen to someone who is falling behind.
Being a CEO of a large corporation doesn't guarantee you the latest tech insight. You will be easily surrounded by yes men who speak what you wanted to hear.
Agreed, all I'm saying is that his perception of the tech -- whether correct or incorrect could potentially either be trend-setting, or could be indicative of trends already in motion.
Case in point: Metaverse.
My thoughts exactly. I think he is well positioned to see edge of ai tech as the money he spent (if allocated well) could give him bit more insights. Although questionoble how much he is still able with his background to understand, I don’t think he is as much engineer as he was used to be