Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Friday, June 27th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Mark Zuckerberg's big AI plans seem to still be a work in progress. He's even considering abandoning Lama. Apple attempts to comply with the EU's DMA.

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The sources are telling the times that Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed de-investing

in Lama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. So how does that fit

into the whole let's throw money at everything AI strategy? Quote, Lama is an open source model

with its underlying technology publicly shared for others to build on.

Mr. Zuckerberg and meta executives instead discussed embracing AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have closed code bases.

No final decisions have been made on the matter.

A meta-spokeswoman said the company officials remain fully committed to developing Lama and plan to have

multiple additional releases this year alone.

End quote.

He is like a lot of CEOs at big tech companies who are telling themselves that AI is going

to be the biggest thing they have seen in their lifetime.

And if they don't figure out how to become a big player in it, they're going to be left

behind, said Matt Murphy, a partner at the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

Speaking of Zuckerberg, he added, quote, it is worth anything to prevent that.

Late last year, the Chinese startup Deep Seek released AI models that were built upon Lama,

but were more advanced and required fewer resources to create.

Meta's open-source strategy,

once seen as a competitive advantage, appeared to have let others get a leg up on it.

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