Professor Argues Meta Models Will Replace Foundation Models

Ziming Liu, a tenure-track assistant professor at Tsinghua University's College of AI, posted on X that foundation models are dead and meta models represent the future. He described three stages: expert systems as specialized models, foundation models as unified models, and meta models as unified systems that design specialized models. Liu included a Chinese proverb on cycles of division and unity. His linked blog post titled Foundation Model or Not repeats the same framing and stages without additional details.