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# The Transcript: Zuckerberg says 'we were not happy with the trajectory that we were on with Llama 4'

The Transcript (@TheTranscript_), X, 2026-10-12.
Source: https://x.com/TheTranscript_/status/2109729039346987179

## Why it matters

Transcribed Zuckerberg quote from the Cheeky Pint interview on why Meta rebuilt its model team after Llama 4.

## Summary

Posted Oct 12, 2026 (19:32 UTC). The Transcript (a newsletter of executive quotes) posts a passage from the Cheeky Pint interview. Zuckerberg: 'Quite famously, we were not happy with the trajectory that we were on with Llama 4. We kind of rebuilt the whole team.' He adds that the team 'had to go build up different tiers of models to kinda get to this one' and that 'now that we are kind of at the frontier, everything that we do going forward will just kind of be pushing the frontier'. Second-hand transcript, not checked against the episode.

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## Archived text

> $META CEO: Muse Wonder represents Meta’s attempt to return to the frontier after Llama 4 disappointed internally.
> 
> “Quite famously, we were not happy with the trajectory that we were on with Llama 4. We kind of rebuilt the whole team. I mean, that's been this kinda crazy thing over the last year and a half that we should probably spend a bunch of time on. Because we've had some war stories. But the team basically had to go build up different tiers of models to kinda get to this one. And now that we are kind of at the frontier, everything that we do going forward will just kind of be pushing the frontier, as opposed to there's a lot of background work that we needed to do before that."
> 
> > Quoting @collision: Cheeky Pint is back! Mark Zuckerberg @finkd and Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang came to the pub to discuss their new frontier model, Muse Wonder.
> > 
> > 00:00:24 Muse’s breakout use cases
> > 00:07:28 The model is the product
> > 00:14:35 Muse Wonder
> > 00:24:56 How frontier models are built
> > 00:48:26 Betting $100B
> > 01:07:21 Agentic commerce
> > 01:19:34 OpenRouter 
> > 01:20:06 Beyond the smartphone
> > 01:27:00 Funding
> > 01:34:06 Why AI won’t be winner-take-all
> > 01:40:46 Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)
> > 02:08:11 Working for Mark Zuckerberg

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## Cited in

- 2026-10-12: [Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-meta-muse-wonder/)

## People in this post

- [Mark Zuckerberg](https://postcutoff.com/person/mark-zuckerberg/), Chairman and CEO, Meta