AI researchers are recently asking a version of this question, “Is this really zak?“
As reported for the first time BloombergMeta CEO is personally asking high AI talent to join his new “Superintendent” AI lab and reboot Lama. Its recruitment process usually happens: A cold out rech through email or WhatsApp refers to the recruitment work date and request a 15 -minute chat. Dozens of researchers have only received such messages on Google.
For those who are willing to listen to his pitch (surprisingly, do not do all of them), Zuckerberg has highlighted that they will have to make a dangerous bet, scale meta products, and the money prepared to invest in infrastructure to help them. He made it clear that the new team would be empowered and would sit with it at the headquarters of Meta, where I have been told that the desk has already resolved for the coming team.
Most of the headlines so far have focused on the poping packages from the eyes that are being offered Zuckerberg, some of which are well in the range of eight figures. As I have covered before, hiring the best AI researcher is like hiring the star basketball player: very few of them, and you have to pay. For example: Zuckerberg paid basically only 14 Instagram so that Scale AI’s CEO could be hired. Alexander Wang.
This is easily the most expensive fare of all the time, which Google spent for rehears Nam Shazir And its basic team Character Dot AI (a contract was approved by Zuckerberg). Wang wrote to employees this week, “Opportunities for this intensity are often at cost.” “In this example, this cost is my departure.”
Zuckerberg’s recruitment is already starting to shake his rivals. One day before the last date of his offer for some senior employees of Openi, Sam Altman Leaving an article in which it was announced that “before anything, we are a Superintendent of Research Company.” And Zuckerberg after trying to hire Deep Mind CTO Corey KookogloShe was given a big SVP title and now reports directly to Google’s CEO Fertilizer.
I expect that Wang Meta will get the title “Chief AI Officer” when a new lab has been announced. Jack RaDeep Mind, a principal researcher who has signed, will lead pre -training. Meta certainly needs reset. According to my sources, Lilama is left behind that Meta’s product teams have recently discussed the use of AI model of other companies (though it is unlikely to be very likely). Meta’s internal coding tool for engineers, however, is already using the cloud.
Although current AI researchers at Meta have a good reason to look at their shoulders, investing $ 14.3 billion on Zuckerberg scale is making a lot of long -term employees, or scalins, rich. He was poping champagne in the office this morning.
Then, Wang held a meeting of all his last hands to say goodbye and cried. He did not mention what he would do in the meta. I expect Zuckerberg to be unveiled in a significant number of Zuckerberg to formally sign in to Zuckerberg in the next few weeks.
Apple is accustomed to being the top in the tech industry, and for good reason: the company has enjoyed the unprecedented run to dominate.
After spending time at the Apple Headquarters for the WWDC, I am not sure that its leaders praise the Alka who is on their way. The hubs they show show that they do not understand how AI is basically changing how people use and build the software.
Going into a key note on Monday, everyone knew that the promise was promised last year. Apple, according to its credibility, acknowledged that it had dropped the ball there, and it seems that the reconstruction of a large language model of Siri is going on very much and is coming in 2026.
However, the AI industry moves faster than Apple’s release schedules. When Siri is probably good enough to maintain high speed, he will have to compete with Locks who are developing with the openings and others through their memory features. Apple and Open are currently partners, but both companies eventually want to overcome the interface to communicate with the AI, which puts them on a collision course.
The decision to allow Apple’s developers to use the basic models of their, on -device for free in their apps may seem smart from the strategy, but unfortunately, the models look away from the leadership. Apple runs its benchmark, which is not impressive, and has confirmed a 4,096 token -context window. It is also saying that the models will be updated along with its operating system – a slow speed compared to how quickly AI companies move.
I would be surprised if a serious developer uses these Apple models, though I can see that he is helpful for Indi Davis who is just starting and does not want to spend on the leading model of cloud models. I don’t think most people care about the privacy angle that Apple is claiming as a discrimination. They are already sharing their dark secrets with GPT and other assistants.
This week I had some new features of Apple Intelligence, such as direct language translation for calls. Mostly, I came with the impression that the company was bending its Chat GPT partnership as a stop gap unless there were both Apple Intelligence and Siri where they needed to be.
AI is probably not a close -term threat to Apple’s business. No one sent anything near Siri, who was familiar with the context, which was demoted in the WWDC last year. People will continue to buy Apple hardware for a long time, even after Sam Altman And Joni ive Announce their first AI device for Chat GPT next year. AR glasses are not going to the mainstream at any time at any time, though we can expect to see more spectacles from Meta, Google, and Snap in the coming year.
Overall, these AI -powered devices can begin to remove the engagement from the iPhone, but I’m not seeing that people are changing their smartphones for a long time. The biggest question after this week is whether Apple has the taxes to get up on this occasion and culturally has been resolved for the era.
I like to hear Tim kick Solve this problem directly, but he had the only interview for WWDC it had a core story Brand About the company’s new F1 Film.
- AI agents are coming. I recently caught the data with the CEO of BRICS Ali Goodsi This week before his company’s annual developer conference in San Francisco. Given the position of the data BRICS, it has a unique, bird view where things are moving towards AI. He does not imagine a close future where AI agents make real -world tasks completely automated, but they predict the startup wave over the next year, which will be nearing completion of operations in areas like travel booking. He thinks that humans will need to approve this (and want) what a job is done and what does it do before completing a task. “Most aircraft we have automatically fly, and we still want a pilot there.”
- Google is a new routine of shopping. This is clear after the role -out of this week’s “voluntary exit program” in Corps Engineering, Search Organization, and some other divisions. In your internal memo, find SVP Nick Fox It was clear that the administration believes that shopping in other parts of the company has been successful, which has tried. In a separate memo I saw, engineering executive Jean -Fitzptic Purchase is called “opportunity to create internal movements and fresh growth opportunities.” Google seems to be trying a cultural reset, which will be a difficult task for its size company. We will see if it can draw it.
- The Ivan Spiegel AR seeks help with glasses. I suspect that the next year’s glasses were announced by AR developers. Telegraphing the project and announcing that Snap has spent 3 billion on hardware to date, which aims for potential partners who want to make big glass games like Google. A strategic investment can help the stock market pain conduct SNAP. A complete acquisition may not be off the table. When he was recently asked if he would be open for sale, Spiegel did not close it as usual, but instead he would “consider anything” that helps the company “make the next computing platform.”
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