Over the years, Meta became an open-weight AI giant on the back of Llama, its large language model that powers Meta AI in Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Now, the company is throwing it all away in favor of a new closed-source solutions. This time, it is tapping into nostalgia to win the hearts and minds of users with an upcoming agentic device that looks a lot like the Tamagotchi of yore.
When talking about frontier AI models, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok take up most of the air in the room. However, on the open-weight side, Meta’s Llama is quite popular, with 2.4 billion downloads as of early 2026. Despite its notable lead in a category increasingly flooded by Chinese competitors, Meta is opting to throw
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