At this point, it is easier to say which startups AI Mark Zuckerberg NO He looked at the acquisition.
Apart from Ilya SUTSKEVER Safe overintension (SSI), Sources tell me that the CEO of Meta has recently discussed shopping ex-openai cto Mira Murati Thoughtful machine laboratory And embarrassment, native ai rival Google. None of these conversations went to the formal stage of the offer for various reasons, including disputes regarding prices and strategies, but together they illustrate how aggressively Zuckerberg made the industry to restart his AI efforts.
Now the details of the Zuckerberg team: co -founder and general director of the SSI Daniel Gross, Together with the former General Director of GitHUB Nat Friedman, They are ready for a leading Meta AI assistant. Both men will report Alexandr WangFormer CEO Scale, Zuckerberg, has just paid over $ 14 billion for quick employment. Wang told his team farewell to the last Friday, and on Monday he was in a finish office. This week, he meets the best Meta leaders (more on this subject below) and continuing recruitment to the fresh AI team, which Zuckerberg aims to build. I expect the team to be unveiled next week.
Instead of joining the finish Aravind Srinivas Everyone collected more money in higher valuations. Sutskever, Titan of the AI research community, which was a co -founder of OPENAI, recently raised Several billion dollars per SSI. I was told that both finish and Google are investors in his company. Murati also just raised several billion dollars. Neither she nor Sutskever are close to spending the product. Meanwhile, Srinivas is in upbringing About $ 500 million for embarrassment.
A spokesman for all involved companies either refused to comment or did not answer on time for publication. Information AND CNBC For the first time he reported Zuckerberg’s conversations with unthreatening superinterty, a Bloomberg For the first time he reported embarrassment conversation.
While Zuckerberg’s recruitment drive is motivated by urgency, which he considers to be repairing AI Meta strategy, the situation also emphasizes fierce competition with the best AI talents. In my conversations this week, in the inside of the industry, they are not surprised by Zuckerberg with the nine-digit one, even, yes, 10-story interferta compensation for the best AI talents. For example, some older people at OpenAi who are already receiving compensation in this pitch, thanks to a meteorist boost in valuation over the past few years.
Speaking of openai, it is clear that CEO Altman itself It is at least a little rattled by employing Zuckerberg. His decision They appear on their brother’s podcast This week and let’s say that “none of our best people” goes to the finish line, it probably was supposed to convey the position of strength, but in fact it looks like he was throwing his former colleagues at the bus. I was confused by Altman’s suggestion that Meta pays a lot in advance for talent, he did not “establish a great culture.” After all, Openai did not pay only $ 6.5 billion for employment Ive ions And his compact equipment team?
“We think that glasses are the best form for artificial intelligence”
When I joined the zoom connection with Alex HimelVice President of Meta of Wearbles, this week he just took the phone with the fresh boss of AI Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang.
“There are more and more Alexes with whom I regularly talk,” she began to start a conversation about fresh META glasses with Oakley. “I was at my first meeting with him. There were three people in the room with the camera, and I thought:” Who is saying now? ” And then I thought: “Oh, hey, it’s Alex.”
The following questions and answers were edited in terms of length and clarity:
How did your meeting with Alex go?
The meeting concerned how to make artificial intelligence as amazing as possible with glasses. Of course, there are several unique use cases in the glasses that are not the things you do on the phone. We try to understand how to balance everything, because AI can be everything for everyone or can be amazing in the case of more detailed use.
We try to come up with how to achieve the right balance, because there are a lot of things in the basic LAMA models and the whole pipeline on which we do not care about glasses. There are also things that you really care about, such as the egocentric view and attempt to convey movies to models to help in some really aspirational use that we would not build otherwise.
You mean this fresh composition with Oakley “AI glasses”. Is this new branding for this category? Are these AI glasses, not intelligent glasses?
We call the AI glasses category. You saw Orion. You used it longer than anyone else in a demo, for which I will praise you. We used to think that you need it to achieve a scale for this new category. You needed a large field of view and display to apply virtual content. Our opinion on this subject has changed significantly. We believe that we can reach a scale faster, and AI is the reason why we think it is possible.
At the moment, the two most important cases of using glasses are a sound – telephone connections, music, podcasts – and taking photos and videos. We look at the indicators of the participation of our active users, and since launching they have been one and two. Audio is one. Very nearly a second these are photos and videos.
AI is number three from the very beginning. When we run more markets – we are now 18 years old – and we add more functions and performs. Our largest mile investment on the software side is the functionality of AI, because we think that glasses are the best form for artificial intelligence. They are something that you already wear all the time. They see what you see. They hear what you hear. They are very available.
Does your goal AI replace the sound and photo to be the most commonly used function of glasses, or do you not think about it?
From the point of view of mathematics, you can at best connect. We want artificial intelligence to be something that is increasingly using more people. We think that there is definitely a place for the sound to improve. There is definitely room for image quality to improve. And things have much more head.
How many artificial intelligence is on board the glasses compared to the cloud? I imagine that you have many physical restrictions on this type of device.
We now have one billion parameters that can work on the frame. There are more and more things there. Then we have things working on the phone.
If you watched WWDC, Apple has announced several ads that we have not yet tested, but we are excited. One of them is API conscious Wi-Fi. We should be able to send photos and videos without detecting people every time annoying the dialog box. That would be great. The second was access to the processor background, which should allow us to process the image during media. Synchronization would work as on Android.
Do you think that the market of these new Oakley glasses will be as big as Ray-Bans? Is it more niche because they are more concentrated outside and focused on athletes?
We work with Essilorluxottica, which is a great partner. Ray-Ban is their biggest brand. Wayfair is in this most popular style. When we launched the original glasses of Ray-Ban Meta, we chose the most popular style of the most popular brand.
Their second largest brand is Oakley. Many people wear them. Holbrook is very popular. HSTN, which we introduce, is a really popular analog frame. Increasingly, we see people using Ray-Ban Metal metals for active use. This is our first step in the performance category. There are more.
What is your reaction to Google ads to I/O for their XR glasses and glasses partnership?
We have been cooperating with Essilorluxottic for five years. It’s a lot of time for partnership. We will synchronize some time. I feel very good with the state of our partnership. We are able to work quickly. The meta glass of Oakley is the fastest program we had. It took less than nine months.
I thought they were [Google] Was it quite good. I thought some of them were quite convincing. They didn’t announce the product, so I can’t react specifically to what they are doing. It is flatter that people see the adhesion that we receive and want to jump.
On the AR front, what did you study from Orion when you showed it to the external world?
We devote ourselves to this speed. In fact, we have achieved quite good internal milestones for its next version, which we plan to sell. The greatest learning of their use is that we feel good in the input model and interaction with vision tracking and the neural band. I wore mine during March madness in the office. I literally watched the games. Imagine sitting at a table with a virtual TV just above the heads of people. It was amazing.
- Tiktok can act illegally. As expected, President Trump extended his enforcement date to the right, which banned China Tiktoku in the USA. It is necessary to understand what is really going on here: Trump instructs his prosecutor general so as not to enforce the fines of raising land in Apple, Google and any other American company that helps to operate Tiktok. The idea that he would not use this huge lever to separate everything he wants from these companies is naive, and the whole process would mock all involved, not to mention the American legal system.
- Amazon will employ fewer people because of artificial intelligence. When you create an employee note in a press release, you try to tell the whole world what comes. In this case, Amazon CEO Andy Jassa He wants to explain that he will fully cover AI to reduce costs. About 30 percent of the Amazon code is already written by artificial intelligence and I am sure that Jassy looks at intensively intensive areas, such as sales and customer service for further automation.
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