Meta’s poaching is having multiple impacts on the direction of AI. There is more chaos. Products are being delayed. Top talent is moving all over the place.
That deal which would have brought the Cursor/Copilot competitor Windsurf to OpenAI is now off. Many of the top talent are going instead to Google’s Deepmind. Windsurf remains, but lacking it’s CEO and cofounders.
Meanwhile, the drama at OpenAI is strong. Sam Altman announced that their open weights model is being delayed. It was planned to release next week and that probably means that GPT-5 is also being delayed.
I wonder how much of it is being impacted by Grok’s release of a multi-agent collaborator model. AMeta’s poaching is having multiple impacts on the direction of AI with more chaos, products being delayed and top talent moving all over the place.
For example, that deal that would have brought the Cursor/Copilot competitor Windsurf over to OpenAI is now off with many of the top talent going instead to Google’s Deepmind. Windsurf remains, but lacking it’s CEO and cofounders.
Meanwhile, the drama at OpenAI is strong with Sam Altman announcing that their open weights model, which planned to release next week is being delayed. That probably means that GPT-5 is also being delayed.
I wonder how much of it is being impacted by Grok’s release of a multi-agent model. Now anyone not getting the leaps that Grok received in crushing the benchmarks like HLE and AIME is going to look like Llama 4.
That was definitely a crushing blow to Zuckerberg, who is Lawyering…I mean Developing Up with a Dang the torpedos, throw all the money at ’em approach.
Well, it’s working and there’s not enough popcorn in the world to take my eyes off the drama. This is better than any telenovela.
I’m looking forward to talking to Ado Kukic in the next episode of itsPlaitime.
Would love to know what you think.
