Meta Wants to Tilt Its AI to the Right

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Meta’s big pivot to AI, which Mark Zuckerberg says could cost the company another $65 billion this year, isn’t going so smoothly at the moment. Industry watchers say its models aren’t competitive with the latest from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Its head of AI research just left, an internal re-organization is underway, and the company is dealing with accusations that it gamed popular performance benchmarks.

So, what’s the plan?