Altman itself AND Elon Musk Not only competes in the AI race; They both have the ambition to build the Silicon Valley Holy Grail: Super “Everything” application covering finances, social media, games and many others.
Earlier this week I glanced at the plan of Altman from the vast space of events at the northern end of San Francisco. He was not there as the general director of Opeli, but as a co -founder and president of the tools of humanity, a parent company of cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, which is now available in the USA. Worldcoin is distributed among people who scan their eyes to one of the startup balls that move in retail stores throughout America. At the same time, the token is used to build great applications for competition X.
Tools for Humanity’s World APP is a cryptographic portfolio, social network and mini -pp platform. His monthly user base has doubled in the last six months to 26 million people, of which 12 million have been verified by a ball. In the World application, you can send a message to others via a chat interface associated with global identifiers-identifiers based on blockchain, which you get after scanning your eyes and send or receive cryptocurrency. There are also dozens of mini applications available from programmers such as Kalshi, many of which allow transactions in the Worldcoin application.
Creating a center of finance and social networks is declared Musk’s intention for X, which is prepared to introduce monetary functions similar to Venmo this year in cooperation with Visa. This week, Tools for Humanity also announced a Visa partnership to issue an American debit card later this summer. This will allow you transactions from Worldcoin and offer AI subscriptions.
By checking if people are people, tools for humanity are also trying to solve the bottle of the bot that Musk said, who wants to fix when he bought Twitter. On stage at the partyAltman reminded the co -founder Alex Blania And he passed through San Francisco five years ago, long before the chatgpt launch.
“It was clear to us that we need something like that we needed some way to authenticate people in the aga era,” he said. “We wanted to ensure that people remain unique and central in a world where the Internet will have many content based on AI.”
During the press and answers after the speech, tools for the general director of humanity Alex Blania He called X as a kind of platform, which he tries to improve thanks to the verification of ID World ID, for which the startup plans to finally burden programmers. The bots on X were once “so stupid that you could see that it was some cryptographic fraud,” he said, recognizing that now “it was not so clear.”
There were several operai leaders on the audience at the party this week. The rumor leading to this consisted in the fact that both companies announced a partnership for the planned OpenAI social network. Given the combination of Altman, I asked Blania during the questions and press answers if he wants to work with Opeli. He replied that he was “definitely open to it” and suggested that there would be more to come for this front. I also hoped to ask about Altman about it, but he slipped after the speech.
Earlier this week I participated in the first Event of Meta in the history of AI, Llamacon, at his headquarters in Menlo Park. The same morning, the independent Meta AI application was issued with a social channel to share interactions with an assistant. After all, the application will add premium level and advertising.
After my main speech in Llamacon, I met with the chief Meta product officer, Chris CoxTo ask why Meta AI receives its own application, why it has a social component and what else seems to be distinguished by the application.
The following conversation was edited for length and clarity:
What is the purpose of making an independent Meta AI application?
Almost a billion people use Meta AI. There are many lighter use, but there are also several communities of people who can do it very much. We wanted to offer light mode in our applications, as well as heavyweight mode.
Does this mean that Meta AI hooks in other applications (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp) will disappear or become optional?
Our plan is to keep it as it is. Some of these things make sense in applications. Many people use it in search to learn more about a specific meme or a specific part of the content. We will continue to have this kind of integration.
When you compare Meta AI with other assistants such as chatgpt, what do you think, what is his advantage?
There is a voice, personalization, social functions, and then integration with equipment. We did a lot of work on getting a voice to a really low delay and making it really expressive, which allows for a continuous conversation.
The second song is personalization. He remembers everything I said. It also includes data on Facebook and Instagram if you combine your accounts to understand your interests in a niche way. He knows I’m a marathon. He knows that I am very interested in artificial intelligence. He knows the humor I like. This begins to give you a rather fascinating level of depth when it comes to answering basic questions. We have created the best personalized experience in social media and we know that this is the difference between the vanilla application and something that people really love. I expect it to be a great distinguishing feature.
Social things are incredibly funny. Many people publish the equivalent of political cartoons with a visual commentary on today’s events. We watched that people do not know what to do with AI, and only until someone who was an expert passed through it, that the bulb was coming out. Like social media, many of them are memetic. You are inspired by what you see, other people.
Will Meta AI Discover Feed become more of your own social network, and not just a way to find a hint?
I think we’ll add more to this. I have already found a group of artificial intelligence creators. In early communities you want to have a dedicated place because it is less under pressure. I do not intend to share my works generated by AI on Instagram, unless it is really good. If you have a place that is only for this thing, there will be a community around it.
Is there hope that this application will also help increase the sales of Meta Ray-Ban, because you connect with them?
I think it may be as follows: you see people using Ray-Bans in the application. For many people it will be an exciting way, instead of seeing marketing.
What have you all learned from the fiasco benchmark Llam 4?
I think that the most important thing for comparative tests is to focus on what really matters to your product. Part of what we have to do is really, really, very bright. I think that every organization goes through a version of this. The assessment that matters is whether the product is good, dot.
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