It's also not like Meta could train it for content moderation, translation or judicial expertise even if it wanted to. They have software engineers idling, not translators.

But Meta's had so much success in this area by copying the leading lans already!

but who’s going to pay Meta for it?

??? The same market that is paying for Codex or Claude Code, if Meta offers competitive services.

I find it pretty hard to see how Meta could possibly catch up to the existing frontier labs. Distillation, I guess, if you want to go that route, but between the fact that they're already way behind and the constant deluge of negative press like this, it strikes me that they would straight up need an architectural miracle in order to actually be competitive.