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Meta's open AI hardware vision

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240 points GavCo | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Gee101 ◴[15 Oct 24 18:46 UTC] No.41851793[source]▶
Zuckerberg and Facebook gets a lot of hate but at least they invest a lot into engineering and open source.
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threeseed ◴[15 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41852156[source]▶
Also the fact that he is delivering on Fediverse integration with Threads.

I don't think most people expected that to happen so quickly or frankly at all.

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1. oersted ◴[15 Oct 24 19:42 UTC] No.41852347[source]▶
VR also gets a lot of hate, and they definitely dropped the ball on user-facing software, but Meta is doing very substantial, deep and valuable long-term R&D on VR hardware. They are also doing a lot on systems software, with their OS and all the low-key AI that enables excellent real-time tracking, rendering and AR.

It might not all be open-source, and they are doing it with an expectation of long-term profit, but they are earnestly pushing the horizons (pun intended) of the field and taking-on lots of risk for everyone else.

It's undeniable now that they are a serious and innovative engineering organization, while Google is rapidly loosing that reputation.