Insight
Bosworth: Meta's Orion prototype proves post-smartphone computing is achievable
“That's why I said like the, Orion was the first thought time I thought Me. Like, the first, Orion, like, putting that in my head, I was like, okay, like, it could happen. Like, there does exist, like, a life for us as a species past the phone.”
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Bosworth predicts AI will replace explicit app selection with intent orchestration
“I am wondering if, like, the progression of AI over the next several years doesn't turn the app model on its head. To where it's like, instead of me being a great now, it's a kind of an unusual thing where I'm like, ah, like I want to play music. So in my head…”
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Bosworth predicts developer ecosystems will emerge around failed AI query requests
“What's gonna happen is there's gonna become a query stream of people using AI to do things and the AI will fail. Repeatedly in certain areas because that's a type of functionality that is currently behind some kind of an app wall, and there's no. There's no br…”
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Bosworth: AI interfaces will abstract away brand names, challenging traditional brands
“It abstracts away a lot of companies' brand names, which I think is going to be very hard for an entire generation of Brands.”
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Bosworth predicts future AI breakthroughs will come from small labs
“A lot of these contributions aren't going to come from these big labs, like they're going to come from these little labs.”
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Bosworth says AI models will become commodities, making open source smart strategy
“I believe these are going to be commodities and you want to commoditize your compliments.”
Insight
Bosworth says augmented reality won't happen automatically without massive capital and effort
“There's a lot of people in tech who are like, yeah, AR will eventually happen. That's not how it fucking works, man. You have to stop And put the money and the time and do it. Like somebody has to stop and do it.”
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Bosworth: Content consumption will move beyond smartphones within 10 years
“10 years, I feel pretty confident that we will have a lot more ways to bring content into our, you know, view shed than just taking out our fun.”
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Bosworth predicts smart glasses will range from high-end to low-res
“For example, you know, I think the glasses, the smart glasses, the AI glasses, the display glasses that we'll have in five years, Will be good. Some of them will be super high end and pretty exceptional. Some of them will be like actually little and like, just…”
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Bosworth: AI's limitations in factuality and compute cost are solvable trade-offs
“While it has these interesting downsides today on factuality and certainly compute and cost and inference those types of trade-offs feel really solvable and the domains that it applies to are really broad.”
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Bosworth says Meta pivoted Ray-Ban glasses to AI six months before production
“So when we started those, that project, the Ray-Ban Meta project, they were going to be smart glasses. And in fact, they were entirely built, and we were six months away from production when Lama three hit.”
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Bosworth: AR glasses will achieve widespread adoption within ten years
“I do think it's going to be a long, that's why I said like the ten-year view for me is, I think, much clearer. I think these things are going to be available, widely accepted increasingly adopted.”
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Bosworth: DeepSeek achieved breakthrough AI results through memory architecture innovation
“DeepSeq in China, which was put in a tough spot and then innovated incredibly in the memory architectures and a couple other places to really get amazing results.”
Opinion
Bosworth says AI and spatial computing represent a Xerox PARC-level shift
“This is Xerox PARC level new stuff where we're rethinking how humans are going to interact with computers. It's like JCR Licklider and the human in the loop computing. We're seeing that with AI.”
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Bosworth: AI Will Simplify Every Digital Interface and Problem Space
“Every single interface that I interact with, every single problem space that I'm trying to solve are going to be made easier by virtue of this new technology.”
Insight
Bosworth: Tech-driven teams cling to dying trends and miss new shifts
“I think the more Oriented you are towards the technology side. You get caught in, like, a wave of technology, and you don't want to admit when that wave is over, and you don't want to embrace the next wave.”
Disclosure
Bosworth says he and Zuckerberg thought AI revolution was 10 years away
“You know, Mark and I always believed that this AI revolution was coming. We just thought it was gonna take longer. Yeah. We thought we were probably still 10 years away at this point.”
Disclosure
Bosworth says Meta concluded the mobile phone form factor saturated in 2015
“10 years ago, like, the mobile phone form factor, as amazing as it was, this is 2015, was like, already saturated. Like, that was what it was gonna be.”
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Bosworth: Touchscreens and mice are both 1960s direct-manipulation interfaces
“Sure, we went from a mouse to a touch screen, but, like, it's still a direct manipulation interface, which is literally the same thing that was pioneered in the 19 sixties.”
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Bosworth says AI cannot yet serve as a primary control interface
“There's still a lot of work to be done to actually adapt it, and it's still not yet a control interface. Like, I can't reliably work my machine with it.”
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Bosworth says Ray-Ban Meta Live AI feature drains battery in 30 minutes
“So you can start a live AI session with your Ray-Ban meted glasses. And for 30 minutes until the battery runs out, It is, it's seeing what you're seeing.”
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Bosworth: Companies will have no choice but to sell through AI intermediaries
“I don't know it's avoidable because I think once consumers start to get into these tight loops where more and more of their interactions are being moderated by an AI, you won't have a choice. Like, your customers are, that's like where your customers will be.”
Opinion
Bosworth: Consumer Adoption Risk Exceeds Hardware Invention Risk for Wearables
“Far bigger than the invention risk I think is the adoption risk.”
Insight
Bosworth: AI as Primary Interface Can Solve Wearable Ecosystem Risks
“I actually think the ecosystem risk was one I would have said previously was the biggest one, but AI is now kind of my potential silver bullet there. If AI becomes the major interface, then it kind of comes for free.”
Andrew Bosworth