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Meta shipped a closed-weight model. Llama, we hardly knew ye.

Meta released its first proprietary closed-weight model on April 8. Three years of 'open is the future' branding ended in one launch post. The interesting question isn't whether Meta abandoned open source. It's what the math behind that decision tells the rest of us.

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