Gm. I got an Apple Watch for Christmas, and I gotta say, this thing is kinda…cracked? It tells me how I sleep. It lets me delete emails as soon as I get them. It looks swaggy. Why doesn’t everyone have one of these things?

— Stephen Flanders

🏠 AI

Meta’s AGI Ambitions

The journey for the major AI companies may differ, but the destination is the same. They want AGI. OpenAI has said so. Google has said so. And now Meta has said so as well.

As Zuckerberg puts it,

So, he’s shifting Meta’s AI strategy to better reflect these goals, starting with combining its AI research and product teams. The reason for this is simple: it makes Meta more competitive in the talent wars.

Besides talent, the other major component of any AGI ambitions is computing power. Zuck’s got this covered as well, as they are sinking billions of dollars into Nvidia chips. 600,000 by the end of 2024, to be exact.

So, let’s say that Zuck does build an AGI. What is he going to do with it? Well, at least for now, it appears he’s planning to do the same thing he’s doing with Llama: open-source it, as long as it’s safe to do so.

The question then becomes how does AI fit into Meta’s overall umbrella. On the social media front, AI could make its apps more attractive, which it is already trying with initiatives like Gen AI Personas. Meanwhile, on the Metaverse front, Zuck sees a future in which virtual worlds are both created and at least partially populated by AI.

So, kind of like the Matrix, but hopefully without the whole human enslavement thing.

The Big Picture: Many people counted him out, but Zuck quietly has Meta’s stock close to $1T again. Who knows if he’ll reach his AI goals, but we’re not betting against him.

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TECH

• Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again. 

• The Samsung S24s have arrived.

• Reddit wants to go public in March.

• Sorry streamers, no Netflix on Vision Pro.

AI

• Evaluations are all we need.

• OpenAI’s gonna have to defend ChatGPT’s fabrications.

• DeepMind’s AI can now solve geometry problems at a star-student level.

• OpenAI, Arizona State. Arizona State, OpenAI.

SCIENCE

• This dirt-powered fuel cell has near limitless energy.

• Helios is bringing space tug to a new level. 

• Quantum computing could make cancer more like the common cold.

• Cancer drugs are amazing.

CRYPTO

• Grayscale, please just stop dumping on us.

• Coinbase and the SEC are slugging it out in court.

• The hat stays on.

• The Ethereum ETF is going to take a while. 

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