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🥑 Meta’s $14B AI Pivot is a Hot Mess

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Wendy
December 10, 2025

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Microsoft turned a $10 tissue slide into cancer maps, and McDonald's just pulled one of the weirdest AI ads we’ve ever seen. They deleted but you can still watch below.

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2025 started with Meta hyping its open-source Llama models like they’d take over the AI world. Now, Llama barely gets mentioned, and Meta’s new obsession is a mysterious, next-gen AI model called Avocado, which might be fully closed-source.

(It was supposed to launch by end of 2025, now we’re hearing it’s delayed to Q1 2026)

They now run key AI teams, replacing longtime Meta execs like Chris Cox (who got booted from the GenAI division after Llama 4’s flop). Meta’s culture is shifting fast:

  • New mantra: “Demo, don’t memo”. No more Workplace updates

  • Teams build like a scrappy startup. 70-hour workweeks + layoffs in FAIR

  • Chief AI scientist Yann LeCun left the company in October

Also, most of Meta’s infra still isn’t ready, so teams are relying on third-party cloud providers. Meta is in AI identity crisis mode:

  • Once the open-source hero → now considering closed models

  • Once proud of internal alignment → now divided between old Meta and the new AI elite

Meta is betting that open source didn’t pay off, and they need to own the next GPT-level model to stay in the game, no matter the cost!?

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Microsoft open‑sourced GigaTIME, an AI model that turns a basic $10 tissue slide into the kind of immune‑system analysis that used to require expensive lab machines, specialists, and days of work. Here’s what GigaTIME actually does:

  • Transforms cheap slides → into rich cancer maps with immune system data

  • Trained on 40M cell samples from Providence Health

  • Tested on 14,000+ real patients across 24 cancer types

  • Created a virtual tumor library of 300,000+ high-resolution images

  • Surfaced 1,200+ new immune patterns tied to cancer stage, outcomes, and survival

This is the kind of work that used to require expensive machines and long turnaround times. Now it happens in software.

By open‑sourcing the model, Microsoft accelerates global adoption and gets a massive real‑world feedback loop:
Cheaper tools → more hospitals use them → better data → better models.

It’s the same playbook we saw in coding models and agent platforms: get the ecosystem using your model early, then build the stack around it.

The real breakthroughs will come from population-scale analysis that was impossible five years ago. And Microsoft knows this.

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