The next thing in AI and AR

Meta is apparently deprioritizing VR and the Oculus business to focus on replicating the surprising success of Meta’s Ray-Ban intelligent glasses. And it makes sense – VR is gone, artificial intelligence has arrived, and Meta’s intelligent glasses are an absolutely unique gadget in the field of artificial intelligence so far. But in the same week that Alex Heath reported this change Command line, information reported that Apple is focusing on the cheaper Vision headset in favor of the Vision Pro successor. Something is happening here, and it seems like it will have a huge impact on the most vibrant visions of our VR and AR future.

While David leaves for the show, Alex Heath joins Nilay and I to talk about what the hell is going on with AR and VR in Silicon Valley these days. But that’s not all we talk about. There’s also a very nippy fresh universal remote with a enormous screen and a narrow audience, Framework has a fresh laptop with a very compelling processor, and Qualcomm’s fresh laptop processors are finally available to reviewers and the general public. While our team furiously compares them, we wonder what this could mean for the wider industry.

And after these critical discussions, like Gigantic Tech, we move on to conversations about artificial intelligence – because this week there was also critical news in this field! Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist of OpenAI and one of the main participants in the November coup attempt, has a brand fresh artificial intelligence company. He doesn’t seem to have any massive business plan, but he has great ideas for the future of artificial intelligence. Additionally, Perplexity appears to be burning bridges to create a competing AI search engine, and tensions are becoming increasingly strained between developers and the AI ​​companies that want them both as customers and for training purposes.

Finally, we’ve found a lightning round that has a surprising emphasis on fashion.

If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started. First, we talked a lot about nippy gadgets:

• Cheerful Windows Arm Day.
• Inside Qualcomm.
• Apple’s fresh hands-free unlocking feature won’t work with existing intelligent locks
• Apple’s fancy fresh CarPlay will only work wirelessly
• This universal remote control wants to control your intelligent home hub
• Framework Laptop 13 will soon become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
• The Apple Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset
• Meta creates a fresh Wearables group and lays off some employees

Then we focused on artificial intelligence:

• OpenAI’s former chief scientist is founding a fresh artificial intelligence company
• The embarrassment continues to anger publishers.
• An AI video tool has just launched that already copies Disney’s IP address
• Anthropic has a fresh, swift AI model and a intelligent fresh way to interact with chatbots
• Artificial intelligence is coming to social networks
• TikTok ads could soon feature AI avatars of your favorite creators
• McDonald’s will stop testing artificial intelligence for drive-thru orders for now

Finally we had a lightning round:

• Nvidia has overtaken Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company
• US sues Adobe for ‘cheating’ subscriptions that are too tough to cancel
• Tech CEOs are hot right now, so workers are hiring fashion consultants who make $500 an hour