Comment by cafebabbe

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.

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.