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I'm happy to make that argument. LLMs were experimental in 2023. It's 2026 now, and enormous numbers of people use them on a daily basis (ChatGPT has 1.2 billion weekly users now, according to Sam Altman at OpenAI DevDay).

They're only experimental in the way that computers are still experimental, since we continue to find new ways to use computers.

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I think that's shaky but also that's OpenAI and not Meta. Up until whenever Muse was launched Meta didn't have anything I'd call a LLM product.

You don't consider Llama an LLM?

It wasn't a product

They've had AI-powered chat and search features in WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook itself for a few years now.

2023-09: "Meta AI is a new assistant you can interact with like a person, available on WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram" - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/introducing-ai-powered-ass...

2024-04: "You can use Meta AI in feed, chats, search and more across our apps" - https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-wi...

2024-09: "You can now use your voice to talk to Meta AI on Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram DM, and it’ll respond back to you out loud" - https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/metas-ai-product-news-conn...

Meh those sound mostly like pilots and AFAIK most of this stuff didn't last long.

I agree that at some point it stopped being a pilot and started being a product. So not that interested in arguing exactly when that happened.

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