Comment by ipsum2 2 days ago
This has nothing to do with superintelligence, it's just the people that were working on the paper prior to the re-org happened to publish after the name change.
Though it is notable that contrary to many (on HN and Twitter) that Meta would stop publishing papers and be like other AI labs (e.g. OpenAI). They're continued their rapid pace of releasing papers AND open source models.
That has always been the policy. To answer your question, Meta has released ~100 models since the Superintelligence Lab reorg.
https://huggingface.co/facebook/models
The most interesting ones to me are:
- CWM (Code world model), an LLM for coding https://github.com/facebookresearch/cwm
- DINOv3, A vision encoder https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/
- MAPAnything, a 3d reconstruction model https://huggingface.co/facebook/map-anything
- VJEPA v2, Self-supervised video pre-training model https://github.com/facebookresearch/vjepa2
Is this a trick response? There's no way he ever cared about society in a way that wasn't completely plastic.
Open weights models, not open source. And even their weights are under a specific license not as permissive as apache 2.
This is the right terminology. Model weights are literally compiled binary data; they are the output of an algorithm run on a bunch of source data. That training dataset is the "source" of the model. Training data (or the scripts used to generate it) is human-readable and modifiable, like source code. Binary weights are not.
I propose that from now on we call freewares "open binaries".
Does an “open source” model the way you describe it exist or is it a mythical creature?
An open source model does exist now [1] and is multilingual. Previous discussion [2].
[1] https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-l...
It does, but does it matter? Even if every software released in 2025 was proprietary, doesn't make their published binaries "open source" because no other software could be classified as "open source".
We name things based on what they are, not based on the lack of other things.
Should be the top comment.
MSL is not only those few high profile hires.
What model(s) have Meta released since the Lab re-org?
Also, that wasn't based on purely hearsay, Zuck explicitly said:
> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source. Still, we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible. [0]
[0]: https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/