Meta Spent $14.3B to Kill Open-Source AI. The Muse Spark Benchmarks Tell a Different Story.

Originally published at news.skila.ai Zuckerberg's 2024 open-source manifesto promised AI would stay open. Meta's new Muse Spark model — built by the $14.3B Alexandr Wang hire — launched fully closed. The benchmarks reveal a specialist that dominates medical AI but trails badly on coding. Chinese models like Qwen now own 69% of the open-source ecosystem Meta built. Here's what that means for every developer who built on Llama. Mark Zuckerberg wrote a 2,000-word manifesto in July 2024 declar...