Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

At this stage, it has become easier to determine which startups Amnesty International Mark Zuckerberg He did not I looked at the acquisition.

In addition to Elijah Sutsfar Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the sources told me that the CEO of Meta recently discussed the purchase of previous Openai CTO Mira Moratti Thinking and Confused Machinery Laboratory, Google Compete of Artificial Intelligence. None of these talks has advanced to the official presentation stage for various reasons, including disputes over the prices of deals and strategy, but they explained together how Zuckerberg was strong in the industry classification to restart its efforts in artificial intelligence.

Now, details of the Zuckerberg team have started to appear: the co -founder and executive director of SSI Daniel Gross, Along with the former CEO of Jaytap Nat Friedman, It is preparing to participate in the leadership of a dead assistant, Amnesty International. Both men will submit a report to Alexander WangZuckerberg, former CEO of the scale, paid more than $ 14 billion to quickly employ it. Wang told his team the farewell last Friday and was in the dead office on Monday. This week, he was meeting with the leading leaders of Meta (more on that below) and continued employment for the new Zuckerberg team, which cost him to build. I expect the team to be discovered as soon as possible next week.

Instead of joining Meta, Sutskever, Murati and Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas They all went to raise more money with higher assessments. Sutskever, TITAN of the Artificial Intelligence Research Society that participated in the founding of Openai, recently made a billion dollars for SSI. I was told that both Meta and Google are investors in his company. MURATI also raised a few billion dollars. Neither she nor Sutskever is about to launch a product. Serenivas, at the same time, is raising about $ 500 million for confusion.

The spokesman for all the companies concerned refused either the comment or did not respond in time to publish. Information and CNBC The Zuckerberg conversations with the safe SupertelleGece of Zuckergal, while the safe Superteigence Bloomberg I mentioned for the first time the confusion.

While the Zuckerberg campaign is driven by the urgency it feels to fix the Meta strategy of artificial intelligence, the situation also highlights fierce competition for the best talents of artificial intelligence these days. In my talks this week, those inside the industry are not surprised by Zuckerberg who make nine numbers-or even, yes, 10 numbers-compensation for the best talent of Amnesty International. There are some elderly people in Openai, for example, who have already been compensated on this stadium, thanks to the increase in the evaluation in the company during the past few years.

Talking about Openai, it is clear that the CEO Sam Taman It was shook at least a little by the zuckerberg. His decision to appear on his brother’s podcast this week and says that “any of our best people” may leave for the dead may have been supposed to convey a position on strength, but in reality, he seems to throw his former colleagues under the bus. I was confused about the suggestion of Altman that Meta, which drives a lot to talent, will not “create a great culture”. After all, it did not pay only 6.5 billion dollars to rent Johnny IVE And his small team?

“We believe that glasses are the best form of Amnesty International.”

When I joined the enlargement call with Alex HamilThe Vice president of Meta of the wearable devices, this week, had just faded with the President of the new Amnesty International from Zuckerberg, Alexander Wang.

“There are an increasing number of Alexi to speak regularly,” said Hazel jokingly when we started our conversation about the release of new Meta glasses with Oakley. “I was only in my first meeting with him. There were three people in a room with the camera far, and I was like,” Who is talking now? “Then you like,” oh, hey, it’s Alex. ”

The following questions and answers were edited for length and clarity:

How did your meeting with Alex go now?

The meeting was on how to make artificial intelligence as great as possible for glasses. It is clear that there are some unique cases of use in glasses that do not do the things you do on the phone. The thing that we try to discover is how to balance everything, because artificial intelligence can be everything for everyone or may be amazing for more specific use situations.

We are trying to know how to achieve the right balance because there are a lot of things in Llama’s basic models and the entire pipeline that we do not care about on glasses. Then there are things that we really care about, such as View Eugentric Wear and try to feed the video in models to help in some cases of really ambitious use that we will not build otherwise.

You refer to this new collection with Oakley as “AI Glasses”. Is this new brand for this category? They are Amnesty International glasses, not smart glasses?

We refer to the category as artificial intelligence glasses. I saw Orion. I used it longer than anyone else in the illustration, which is what you praised. We are used to believe that this is what you need to hit the scope of this new category. You need a large show and display of virtual content arrival. We have seen it definitely changed. We believe that we can hit the scale faster, and AI is why we think this is possible.

Currently, the two best cases of use of glasses are sound – phone calls, music and podcasts – taking pictures and videos. We look at the participation rates of our active users, and these have been one and two since its launch. The sound is one. The second is very close to the pictures and videos.

Amnesty International has been three from the start. Since we are launching more markets – we are now 18 years old – and we add more features, artificial intelligence crawls. Our largest investment is a mile on the software side is the function of artificial intelligence, because we believe that glasses are the best shape of AI. They are something you really wear all the time. They can see what you see. They can hear what you hear. It can be accessed super.

Is your goal to have Amnesty International that replaces the most used sound and image of glasses, or is this not what you think?

From the point of view of mathematics, at best, you can draw. We want artificial intelligence to be something that more people use frequently. We believe that there is definitely room for sound to improve. There is definitely room for image quality to improve. Artificial intelligence things are much more head room.

How many artificial intelligence on the glasses versus the cloud? I imagine that you have a lot of material restrictions with this type of devices.

We now have a billion teacher models that can be run on the frame. Therefore, increasingly, there are things there. Then we have things that work on the phone.

If you are watching WWDC, Apple has released ads that we haven’t had the opportunity to test yet, but we are excited. One is Wi -Fi that faced applications programming facades. We must be able to transfer photos and videos without people clicking on the annoying dialog box every time. It will be great. The second is to access the background of the processor, which should allow us to process images when transferring media. The synchronization will work as you do on Android.

Do you think this new Oakley glasses will be large like Ray-Bans? Or is it more prestigious because it is more outdoors and focuses on athletes?

We work with Essilorluxotica, which is a great partner. Ray Ban is her biggest brand. Including, the most popular method is Wayfair. When we launched the original Ray-Ban Meta glasses, we went in a more popular style for the most popular brand.

The second largest brand is Okle. Many people wear it. Holbrook is really common. HSTN, which we call, is a really common representative framework. We increasingly see people who use Ray-Ban Meta glasses for active use cases. This is our first step in the performance category. There is more in the future.

What is your reaction to Google Ads in I/O for their XR glasses and glasses partners?

We have worked with Essilorloxotica five years ago. This is a long time for partnership. It takes some time to get truly synchronous. I feel satisfied with the condition of our partnership. We are able to work quickly. Oakley Meta is the fastest program we had a little. It took less than nine months.

I thought the illustrations [Google] Was it good. I thought some of these were very convincing. They did not announce a product, so I cannot respond specifically to what they are doing. It is fun for people to see the traction we get and want to jump as well.

On the front of AR glasses, what are you learning from Orion now after you were offered to the outside world?

We were walking at full speed. We have already reached some of the good internal features of the next version of it, the person we plan to sell. The greatest learning of its use is that we are increasingly satisfied with the input model and interaction with eye tracking and the nervous band. I wore me during the madness of the office. I was watching games literally. Imagine yourself sitting on a table with a virtual TV over people’s heads. It was amazing.

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