Yea I’ll give meta a bit of credit for that but I remember llama’s first release was a leak and i remember frantically downloading them just incase they would get permanently taken down but to everyone’s surprise meta decided to roll with it and embrace the open source community. Unfortunately they face planted with llama4 which was weird since they were supposed to have so much “talent” working on it.

The new SAM (segment anything) and SAM3D are actually impressive and good on them for releasing it to the public. They still need to release an image model.

I honestly believe the weird pursuit for “safety” is what sabotaged them, it seems to lobotomy models. It’s also the reason Stable Diffusion went from the hot thing to a joke. Stable diffusion 3 was so safe you couldn’t generate a woman laying down on some grass because that’s apparently dangerous for reasons unknown.

All models have had their “safety” and guardrails removed by the community and the world didn’t end.