[notfried]

I don't really think Meta ever had a vision beyond "Facebook is a social network to connect people". Since then, their strategy has primarily been driven by their fear of being left behind, or of losing the next platform war. Instagram, Whatsapp, Threads, VR, AR, and now AI, they all weren't driven by a vision as much as it was their fear of someone else opening a door to a new market that renders them obsolete. They are good at executing and capturing the first wins, but not at innovating, redefining a market, or pushing the frontier forward; which is why they eventually get stuck, lose direction, and fall behind (Tiktok, Apple Vision Pro, AI).

[stingraycharles]

Yes, but they’ve definitely made a big contribution to AI / LLMs. I just don’t understand how they plan on monetizing upon things, apart from “better AI integration inside their own products”.

Are they planning to launch a ChatGPT competitor?

It seems like this acquisition is focused on technology, but what’s the product vision?

[jbc1]

Their already existing chat app is what “ai” means to my normie friends.

[KaoruAoiShiho]

They already have a chatgpt competitor, you can talk to llama in all the facebook apps, they're just clearly inferior.