AI researchers are recently asking themselves a version of the question, “Is it really stuck?,
As reported earlier BloombergMeta CEOs are personally asking the top AI Pratibha to join their new “Superintendent” AI Lab and Reboot Lama. Their recruitment process usually occurs in this way: a cool outreach through email or WhatsApp that cites the recruitment function history and requests a 15 -minute chat. Dozens of researchers have received such messages in Google alone.
Those who agree to listen to their pitch (surprisingly, not all of them), Zuckerberg has exposed the latitudes that have prepared them to invest in the infrastructure, the measure of the products of the meta, the measure of the products of the meta, and the money he he supported. He makes it clear that this new team will be empowered and will sit with him at the Meta headquarters, where I have been told that the desk has already been rearranged for the upcoming team.
Most of the headlines so far have focused on eye-popping compensation packages, offering Zuckerberg, some of which are well in eight-innovative range. As I have covered firstHaving the best AI researcher to work is like hiring a star basketball player: very few of them, and you have to pay. Case in point: Zuckerberg originally only paid 14 to hire Instagrams Scale AI CEO Alexandra Wang,
This is easily the most expensive rent of all time, dwarf Google spent billions to redo Noam Shezir And his main team from Character.ai (a deal passed on Zuckerberg). “Opportunities for this magnitude often come at a cost,” Wang has written to employees this week in his note. “In this example, this cost is my departure.”
The recruitment race of Zuckerberg is already starting to raise its rivals. Before their offer time limit for some senior Openai employees, Sam Altman Dropned an essay Announcing that “before anything, we are a superintending research company.” And after Zuckerberg tried to hire deepmind CTO Kore kavukuogluit was Gave a big SVP title And now reports directly to the CEO of Google Beautiful pichai,
I hope that when the new lab is announced, Wang will be titled “Chief AI Officer” in Meta. Jack RaiA prominent researcher of Deepmind, who has signed, will lead pre-training. Meta is definitely required a reset. According to my sources, Lama has fallen so far that Meta’s product teams have recently discussed with other companies using the AI model (although it is unlikely to happen). However, Meta has an internal coding tool for engineers Already using Cloud.
While the existing AI researchers at Meta have a good reason to see their shoulders, Zuckerberg’s investment of $ 14.3 billion in the scale is making many long -term employees, or scalances, quite rich. They were popping champagne in the office this morning.
Then, Wang held his last all-hand meeting to say goodbye and cry. He did not mention what he was doing in Meta. I hope that his new team will be unveiled within the next few weeks after Zuckerberg is in significant number to officially sign Zuckerberg.
Apple is accustomed to being at the top of the technical industry, and for a good reason: the company has enjoyed almost unmatched runs of dominance.
After spending time at Apple Headquarters for WWDC this week, I am not sure that its leaders appreciate the meteorite that is going on his way. The Habris displayed by him shows that they do not understand how AI is originally changing how people use and manufacture software.
After going to Kenot on Monday, everyone knew that the promised Siri from the previous year was rebuilt. Apple, for his credit, admitted that it dropped the ball there, and it seems that a large language model of Siri is rebuilding a lot and coming in 2026.
The AI industry moves much faster than the release schedule of Apple, although. As long as Siri is probably enough to maintain speed, it will have to struggle with lock-in and other people are constructing through their memory features. Apple and Openai are currently partners, but both companies eventually want to control the interface to interact with AI, which puts them in a conflict course.
Developers find Apple’s decision strategically smart to use developers for free in their own apps, but unfortunately, the model looks away from the leading. Apple Run your own benchmarkWhich are not impressive, and confirmed an average reference window of 4,096 tokens. Its It is also saying The model will be updated with its operating system – a snail speed compared to how quickly AI companies run.
I would be surprised that any serious developers use these Apple models, although I can see them being helpful for Indie gods who are just starting and do not want to spend on the leading cloud model. I do not think that most people care about the privacy angle that Apple is claiming as a discrimination; They are already sharing their deepest mysteries with chat and other assistants.
Some of the new intelligence features I made this week, some of them were impressive, such as live language translation for calls. Mostly, I came with the notion that the company is bending too much as a stopgap on its chatgate partnership until Apple is not both intelligence and Siri where they need to be.
AI probably does not have a near -term risk for Apple’s business. No one has sent anything close to the relevant Siri which was demoned in the WWDC last year. People will continue to buy Apple hardware for a long time Sam Altman And Johnny Eve Announce your first AI device for Chatgpt next year. AR glasses are never going to mainstream soon, although we can expect to see more eyewear than meta, Google and Snap in the coming year.
Overall, these AI-manufactured equipment can begin to remove engagement with the iPhone, but I do not see people completely replacing my smartphones for a long time. The big question after this week is whether Apple has what happens to get up on the occasion and culturally resets itself for the AI era.
I would like to hear Tim Cook Add this issue directly, but he did the only interview for WWDC A cover story In Diversity About the company’s new F1 Movies.
- AI agents are coming. I recently caught with CEO of Databrix Ali Ghodsi This week beyond his company’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. Given the status of databricics, he has a unique, bird eye view, where there are things for AI. He does not imagine the future of a near-period, where AI agents fully automate real-world functions, but he predicts a wave of startups in the following year that will come close to completing tasks in areas such as travel booking. He thinks that humans will need (and want) to approve what an agent does before he stops and completes any task. “We have most airplanes that are being automated, and we still want pilots there.”
- Buy in Google is new normal. This is very clear after this Rollout of “voluntary exit program” this week In core engineering, search organization and some other divisions. In your internal memorandum, find SVP Nick Fox It was clear that the management feels that the shopping has been successful in other parts of the company who have tried them. I saw in a different memo, engineering execution Gen fitzpatric Buyouts are called the opportunity to create internal mobility and fresh development opportunities. ” Google is trying a cultural reset, which will be a challenging task for the company of its size. We will see if it can pull it.
- Ivan wants help with Speigel AR glasses. I suspect their announcement That consumer glasses are coming next year The AR developers were fully aimed at. While teaching the scheme and announced that Snap has spent $ 3 billion on hardware to date, which feel more than the purpose of potential partners who want to play big glasses such as Google. A strategic investment can help insulating snap with stock market pain. A complete acquisition cannot be away from the table, either. when he was Recently asked If he would be open to a sale, Speigel did not close it as usual, but he would “consider anything” instead that helps the company to create the next computing platform. “
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