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Microsoft and Meta announce large staff reductions as they spend big on AI
(www.theguardian.com)
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I think it’s much more likely that they tried really hard to do AI stuff but their corporate culture wasn’t compatible with “ship slop, it’s fine” and ended up falling behind because their stuff was only just as good as the other guys.
For what it’s worth, they did fire/“retire” their AI guy and they’ll be using Gemini models now.
So long as they don’t try forcing it into my phone I’m happy. I don’t want it until it can all run on a local model.
That’s their goal and they have the hardware to do it.