Meta is outwardly deprioritizing VR and its Oculus enterprise to deal with reproducing the shocking success of its Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses. And it is smart — VR is out, AI is in, and Meta’s sensible glasses are absolutely the standout gadget so far for AI. However in the identical week that Alex Heath reported this shake-up in Command Line, The Data reported that Apple is specializing in a less expensive Imaginative and prescient headset in favor of a successor to the Imaginative and prescient Professional. One thing’s taking place right here, and it feels prefer it’s going to have a significant influence on probably the most distinct visions of our VR and AR future.
So with David stepping away for a present, Alex Heath joins Nilay and myself to speak about what the heck is occurring with AR and VR in Silicon Valley proper now. However that’s not all we speak about. There’s additionally a really cool new common distant with a giant display and a restricted viewers, Framework has a brand new laptop computer with a really curious processor, and Qualcomm’s new laptop computer processors are lastly out there to reviewers and most of the people. Whereas our workforce furiously benchmarks them, we dig into what it might imply for the broader business.
And after these huge discussions we, like Massive Tech, pivot to speaking about AI — as a result of there was huge information in that house this week, too! Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist and one of many main individuals in final November’s tried coup, has an entire new AI firm. He doesn’t seem to have a giant marketing strategy, however he has grand concepts for the way forward for AI. Plus, Perplexity seems to be burning bridges to create a aggressive AI search engine, and the stress between creators and the AI firms who need them each as clients and for coaching knowledge grows extra taut.
Lastly, we hit a lightning spherical that’s received a shocking vogue focus.
If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began. First, we talked rather a lot about cool devices:
- Completely satisfied Home windows on Arm day.
- Qualcomm inside.
- Apple’s new hands-free unlocking function gained’t work with present sensible locks
- Apple’s fancy new CarPlay will solely work wirelessly
- This common distant desires to regulate your sensible house sans hub
- The Framework Laptop computer 13 is about to develop into one of many world’s first RISC-V laptops
- Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional workforce is reportedly targeted on constructing a less expensive headset
- Meta types new Wearables group and lays off some workers
After which, we made a pivot to AI:
- OpenAI’s former chief scientist is beginning a brand new AI firm
- Perplexity continues to piss off publishers.
- An AI video device simply launched, and it’s already copying Disney’s IP
- Anthropic has a quick new AI mannequin — and a intelligent new solution to work together with chatbots
- AIs are coming for social networks
- TikTok advertisements might quickly comprise AI avatars of your favourite creators
- McDonald’s will cease testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now
Lastly, we had a lightning spherical:
- Nvidia overtakes Microsoft because the world’s most dear firm
- US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions which can be too onerous to cancel
- Tech CEOs are scorching now, so staff are hiring $500-an-hour vogue consultants
