When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic began speaking about “pacing the frontier,” possibly somebody ought to have requested: what tempo? Now it’s was mannequin drop week for each firms as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, adopted by OpenAI’s GPT-6 mannequin updates simply 90 minutes later. However the firm that stole the highlight was Meta, whose private AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for good glasses and a tiny Tamagotchi-style system subsequent.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into Meta’s client AI technique and what it means for the startups making an attempt to construct on prime of this expertise, protecting every part from the place the cash is flowing to which AI merchandise would possibly truly change into a part of folks’s day by day lives. Additionally they get into a16z’s new faculty for aspiring founders and two very completely different AI and {hardware} offers.