AI researchers have recently asked themselves a version of the question, “Is this really Zuck?“
As he reports for the first time BloombergThe meta CEO personally asked the best talent of AI to join his up-to-date AI “Superinteligence” laboratory and restart the lama. His recruitment process usually looks: chilly range via e-mail or WhatsApp, which cites the history of the recruitment work and asks for a 15-minute chat. Dozens of researchers received this type of message in Google itself.
For those who agree to hear his jump (which is amazing, not all), Zuckerberg emphasizes the latitude that they will have to make risky plants, the scale of meta products and money, which is prepared to invest in infrastructure for their support. He explains that this up-to-date team will be strengthened and sit with him at the headquarters of Meta, where I was told that the desks have already been subjected to the incoming team.
Most of the current headers focused on stunning compensation packages, which Zuckerberg offers, some of which are in an eight -digit range. As before, employing the best AI researcher is like hiring a basketball player’s star: there are very few of them and you have to pay. Example: Zuckerberg basically paid 14 instagrams to employ AI Scale CEO Alexandr Wang.
This is the most steep rental of all time, overshadowing billions that Google spent on rehabilization Noam Shaveer and his basic team from Character.Ai (Zuckerberg has passed). “The possibilities of this size often cost,” Wang wrote in a note to employees this week. “In this case, this cost is my departure.”
Zuckerberg’s recruitment is already starting to virgin his competitors. The day before the date of the offer for some older Openai employees, Altman itself I dropped the essay By proclaiming that “we are a research company of Superinteligencja before anything else.” And after Zuckerberg tried to hire CTO Koray kavukcuogluwas Given the larger SVP title And now he reports directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
I expect Wang that Wang will have the title “Chief Ai Officer” in the finish when a up-to-date laboratory was announced. Jack RaeThe main researcher from Deepmind, who has registered, will conduct initial training. The finish certainly needs reset. According to my sources, Llam has fallen so far behind that META product teams have recently discussed using AI models from other companies (although it is so unlikely). However, the internal meta coding tool for engineers is is already used Claude.
While the existing AI Meta researchers have a good reason to look at the shoulders, the Zuckerberg investment in the amount of $ 14.3 billion on a scale means that many long -term employees or scaliens are quite luxurious. This morning they popped out champagne in the office.
Then Wang held his last All Hands meeting to say goodbye and cry. He did not mention what he would do in the finish. I expect his up-to-date team to be unveiled in the next few weeks after Zuckerberg receives a critical number of members who officially logged in.
Apple is used to being at the top of the technology industry and for a reason: the company enjoyed almost unparalleled dominance.
After spending time at Apple HQ this week at WWDC, I am not sure if its leaders appreciate the meteor that is heading. Displayed that display pride, suggest that they do not understand how AI generally changes the way people operate and build the software.
Going on Monday, everyone knew that they did not expect the renovated Siri, which was promised in the previous year. Meanwhile, Apple admitted that it dropped the ball there and it sounds as if the reconstruction of the great Siri model is very ongoing and is coming in 2026.
However, the AI industry is moving much faster than the Apple release schedule. Before Siri is perhaps good enough to keep pace, she will have to fight the blockade that Opeli and others build through memory functions. Apple and Opeli are currently partners, but both companies want to ultimately control the interaction interface with AI, which puts them on a collision course.
The Apple decision, to allow programmers to operate their own basic models for the device for free in their applications, sounds strategic clever, but unfortunately the models look far from driving. Apple conducted his own reference researchwhich are not impressive and confirmed the penniless contextual window of 4096 tokens. His Saying that too The models will be updated with operating systems – the snail’s pace compared to the brisk movement of AI.
I would be surprised if some sedate programmers operate these Apple models, although I see that they are helpful for independent developers who are just starting and do not want to spend on leading models in the cloud. I do not think that most people take care of the privacy angle that Apple claims as a distinguishing feature; They already share their darkest secrets from chatgpt and other assistants.
Some of the up-to-date Apple Intelligence functions that I demonstrated this week were impressive, such as live translation for connections. I usually came out with the impression that the company is strongly based on its partnership ChatgPT as Stopgap, as long as Apple Intelligence and Siri are where they must be.
AI is probably not a tiny -term risk for Apple. Nobody sent anything close to the contextual conscious Siri, who was demonstrative at last year’s WWDC. People will continue to buy Apple equipment for a long time, even after Altman itself AND Ive ions Next year, announce your first AI device for chatgpt. In the near future AR glasses are also not going on the mainstream, although we can expect more meta glasses, Google and Snap in the coming year.
In the aggregates, these powered AI devices could start removing the iPhone’s involvement, but I do not see that people replace their smartphones for a long time. The bigger question after this week is whether Apple has what you need to get to the opportunity and rejoice culturally for the AI era.
I would like to hear Tim cook solve this problem directly, but the only interview he conducted for WWDC was cover IN Diversity About the up-to-date company F1 movie.
- AI agents are coming. I recently met with CEO Databicks But Ghhhods Before the annual developer conference this week in San Francisco. Considering the position of Databicks, he has a unique, birds of eyes to where it is clever intelligence. He cannot imagine a tiny -term future in which AI agents completely automate tasks in the real world, but provides a wave of startups over the next year, which will be similar to performing activities in such areas as travel reservation. He thinks that people will need (and want) to approve what the agent does before he leaves and ends the task. “We automate most flying planes and we still want pilots there.”
- Purchases are a up-to-date standard on Google. This is much clear after the introduction of the “voluntary exit program” in Core Engineering, search engine organization and some other divisions. Search for SVP in your inner note Nick Fox It was clear that management believes that the buyout was successful in other parts of the company that tried them. I saw in a separate note, Engineering Exec Jen Fitzpatrick Called the purchase of “the possibility of creating internal mobility and fresh development opportunities”. It seems that Google is trying to reset cultural, which will be a complex task for the company of its size. We’ll see if he can do it.
- Evan Spiegel wants to lend a hand with AR glasses. I doubt whether his announcement that consumer glasses would come next year was only addressed to AR programmers. Telegraphing the plan and announcing that Snap has spent $ 3 billion on equipment so far seems to be more directed to potential partners who want to make larger glasses such as Google. A strategic investment can lend a hand in insulation from pain on the stock exchange. A full takeover may also not be out of the table. When he was He recently asked If it were open to sale, Spiegel did not close it as always, but he said that he would “consider everything”, which would lend a hand “create another computer platform”.
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