spacegrep 🏳️🌈 @spacegrep · 2h
ex-Meta scientists are explicitly mentioning that they were not involved with Llama 4 (ఠ_ఠ)
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Experience
Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
Feb 2025 - Present · 3 mos
San Francisco Bay Area
RL frontier research, Posttraining
AI Research Scientist
Meta
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos
United States
[highlighted:] Generative AI (Llama 2 - Llama 3 period, have not been involved in Llama 4 at all)
- Develop the first multi-obj online RLHF platform to support Meta AI RLHF finetuning
- Develop the first RL pipeline for improve multi-step reasoning capability of Meta AI with scalability
FB App
- Develop the first auto-tuning platform in Meta to support the recommendation system modelling in FB Reel recommendation and In-Feed-Recommendation. See less
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xlr8harder @xlr8harder · 31m
brutal
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A viral tweet noting that former Meta AI researchers (now at OpenAI) are pointedly disclaiming involvement with Llama 4 on LinkedIn, read as a signal of internal dissatisfaction/embarrassment around that model's reception. Industry gossip relevant to tracking lab culture and researcher movement.
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if Llama: Behemoth doesn't set the stage for Claude: Requiem nothing will > QUOTED: AI at Meta @AIatMeta · 1h Today is the start of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation. Today, we're introducing the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick ... [Show more] [Image: slide titled "Llama 4: Leading Multimodal Intelligence" listing Llama 4 Behemoth (288B active parameters, 16 experts, 2T total parameters, "most intelligent teacher model for distillation," Preview), Llama 4 Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total parameters, native multimodal with 1M context length, Available), and Llama 4 Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total parameters, "industry leading 10M context length," Available)] 9:16 PM · Apr 5, 2025 · 987 Views 1 reply, 35 likes, 2 bookmarks nathan hb @nathan84686947 · 5m The Behemoth rises, the Claude lies in wait [Image: AI-generated illustration of a large armored
mechanical llama/goat with a glowing red eye standing over a city skyline at dusk] croissanthol... @croissantho... · 11m [Quoting older post, Dec 12, 2024]: seems also vaguely more dignified if we go extinct because of a "Requiem" and not a "o2-preview-1.2-turbo" x.com/brian_a_burns/...
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Meta's official Llama 4 launch announcement (Scout, Maverick, and preview Behemoth models) with parameter counts, quote-tweeted with a joking "sets the stage for Claude" comment, and Nathan's own playful reply with an AI-generated image. Documents the Llama 4 launch date and Nathan's contemporaneous reaction/humor about model competition. Continuation of Nathan's own Llama-4-launch joke thread ("The Behemoth rises, the Claude lies in wait") with a reply riffing on AI model naming conventions and existential-risk gallows humor (dying to something named "Requiem" vs. "o2-preview-1.2-turbo"). Documents Nathan's own social engagement around the Llama 4 launch.
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