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Meta's open AI hardware vision

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212 points GavCo | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jameslk ◴[15 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41851534[source]▶
That title is most definitely a swipe at OpenAI. It seems there’s a theme of two types of platform companies: the closed one that has the “premium” platform, and the open one that gets market share by commodifying the platform.

macOS vs Windows

iOS vs Android

OpenAI vs Meta AI?

Edit: Another observation is Meta seems to open things defensively. Facebook had a rich developer platform until Facebook stopped needing to grab market share. Meta’s VR platform was closed until Apple challenged them with Vision Pro. Then Meta announced open sourcing Horizon OS. I wonder if Meta will truly keep things open if they win, or if it’s more like a case of EEE?

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1. KaiserPro ◴[15 Oct 24 19:37 UTC] No.41852299[source]▶
OCP has been about for _years_. Almost since facebook was a thing.

Facebook the site had a rich platform until they had to secure it against people stealing your data, and your mate's data and pretending that they had a really rich dataset on most of the western world's adult population (ie Cambridge analytica )

Horizon OS is a fucking mess and isn't anything really to do with Apple, its more to do with the making sure samsung don't use android for what ever shit they produce.

OpenAI aren't going to compete with Meta, as they aren't in the same game. OpenAI has to make money from its offerings, Meta's AI shit is a byproduct of other things (see massive spending on "reality labs")