Meta Muse Spark: Why Meta Abandoned Open-Source AI (And What It Means)
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Meta just went proprietary. After years of championing open-source AI with Llama, the company’s first model from Superintelligence Labs signals a complete strategy reversal. Here’s what happened — and who gets burned. For three years, Meta was the loudest voice in open-source AI. Llama models powered thousands of startups, research labs, and indie projects. Developers built entire companies on the assumption that Meta would keep shipping open weights. That assumption just died...