Variable in blade is undefined when passing variable from controller Laravel

Question

So I want to return some string from model and controller but it always says undefined variable, although when I use When checked with dd($ it successfully passes a) and dd($b). What did i do wrong?

about.blade:

@extends('layout.template');
@section('homeContainer');

<p> {{ $a }} </p>
<br>
<p>{{ $b }}</p>
@endsection

About the controller:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\AboutModel;

class AboutController extends Controller
{
    //
    public static function info(){
        $a = AboutModel::info();
        $b = "This data is from controller";
    

        return view('about', compact('a', 'b'));
    }
}

About the model:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class AboutModel extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
    
    public static function Info(){
        $a = "This value is from model";
        return $a;
    }
}

Directions:

<?php


use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\AboutController;

/*
|------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
| Web Routes
|------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider and all of them will
| be assigned to the "web" middleware group. Make something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});



Route::get('/about', function () {
    return view('about', [
        "name" => AboutController::info(),
    ]);
});

Answer 1

The controller never runs, only the callbacks in the web.php file. This means you don't have a and b variables, only a name variable

Answer 2

thank you for your reply! Turns out I mistakenly declared the model as a variable and a route,

For the route I changed it to

Route::get('/about',[AboutController::class,'info']);

For controllers and models I remove the static and change the model declaration

Controller:

public function info()
    {
        $model = new AboutModel();
        $a = $model->Info();
        $b = "This data is from controller";

        return view('about', compact('a', 'b'));
    }

model:

public function Info(){
        $a = "This value is from model";
        return $a;
    }