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Hays: Meta's Muse is not an Instinct clone but will compete directly
“So I don't think it's an instinct clone. I think it will compete with instinct.”
Iovine: Meta selling two million smart glasses is not a massive success
“They sold two million. They didn't sell twenty million. We sold two million headphones in Brooklyn. You know, it's not a really, it's not a massively successful.”
Hays: Meta's MSL Will See More Exits Within Two Months
“I don't think this will be the last of the exits that we see out of MSL over the next even one or two months.”
Louisiana teachers received $50k bonuses from Meta data center tax revenue.
“In Richland parish, Louisiana, where Meta's building a large data center, teachers received a 50,000 dollar bonus this year because of the increased tax revenue from their investment there.”
Coogan: Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Signed AI Pause Letter
“There's this open letter from a bunch of lab employees saying like, hey, maybe we should do a mutual pause. Maybe we should all slow down. And I think even some meta researchers signed that as well, but there's like a wide group from OpenAI, Anthropic, a bunch…”
Kim: Media Misconstrued Mark Zuckerberg's AI Remarks to Falsely Claim CapEx Cuts
“I think we saw earlier this month I think Reuters quoted, like Zuckerberg's about agentic AI. They took it out of context, and then every Media person was with the hot take that this Meta was seeing bad returns, and they're going to cut CapEx, and then we had …”
Hays: Meta's Smart Glasses Are a Bet to Take Cuts of Commerce
“The glasses are more of a new platform bet right now than AI. And I just think he wants to be in a world where you're wearing your very, very cheap pair, or maybe even free pair of glasses around. They act as your phone and your computer, and you can look at s…”
Coogan: Meta lacks an AI product organization to ship features rapidly
“It feels like they have a research organization, but they don't have an AI product organization that's actively productizing things as quickly.”
Hays: Meta glasses product-market fit is driven by camera, not AI
“The glasses that have product market fit today are more of just like the I think the product market fit is really with the camera, not the intelligence combined with a pair of glasses.”
Coogan: Meta Should Focus on AI Consumer Hardware, Not Superintelligence
“There's probably a piece of consumer hardware that's AI enabled, like the ring or something where, or just getting really good at voice models or just getting really good at image models. And if they're a little bit more narrow and constrained, they could prob…”
Hays: Meta considered buying Kalshi before developing prediction market app
“Apparently, according to Bobby Allen over at NPR, meta considered buying Calci before it's developing its own prediction market app.”
Coogan: $2,200 Snap Spectacles are too chunky for real-life wear
“But Meta's is 800 dollars, and Specs from Snap is 2200 dollars. They are so chunky, they look like something you might see in a Prada ad and never in real life.”
Leaked memo: Meta tracks billions in internal AI spend in 2026
“We've seen an exponential increase in AI usage, and we are tracking to spend billions on internal use alone in 2026. The memo said, at the same time, individuals and teams have limited visibility into and control over how they use AI. In twenty-twenty-seven, w…”
Hays: Meta's bull case is that AI accelerates, not threatens, it
“With Meta right now, it's, the bull case is, it's potentially the greatest business in the history. That is not threatened by AI. That actually is accelerated by AI.”
Baker: Market Skepticism on Meta Monetizing Its AI Infrastructure Is Warranted
“It just suggests that the market has an immense amount of skepticism about their ability to monetize their own asset base. And I think that's warranted given that all we've really got out of management is this concept of personal super intelligence.”
Gerstner: Meta is up for the challenge of building enterprise compute services
“Do I worry as a shareholder at some level that it's, you know, that's hard. That's hard to take a business. It's been a 120% consumer and say, okay, now we're going to be in the business of AWS and maybe even in the business of enterprise level agents. I think…”
Coogan: Cursor, Anthropic, Meta, and Google Will Buy Cerebras Chips
“Every, every lab that has exploding demand, Cursor, Anthropic Meta, and Google, like, unless they have, like, a direct answer to this, I would see them being a buyer in the near term.”
Meta and Overview Energy plan to beam 1GW of space solar
“They're planning to beam up to one gigawatt of space solar power from orbit to Earth for around-the-clock power production.”
Kim: Mark Zuckerberg may waste $100 billion on frontier AI models
“I mean, reality labs, he made a waste of 70 to eighty billion dollars. He may waste a hundred billions of dollars on, on these Frontier AI models.”
Novak: Over 10,000 injury cases pending against social media platforms
“There are over 10,000 individual personal, personal injury cases, almost 800 school district claims, and 40 state level cases pending nationwide that are similar to KGM Versus Meta and YouTube.”
Hays: Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI CEO agent for himself
“Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him do his job.”
Hays: Meta plans stablecoin payments comeback in second half of year
“Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning a stablecoin comeback in the second half of this year, eyeing a third party vendor as a key partner to power payments.”
Hays: Platforms intentionally ignore unauthorized AI content to boost engagement
“I don't think they're cooperating that hard. There's so much content of a bunch of individuals on YouTube, on Meta that is using their name and likeness and putting them in situations that they would never, ever, ever agree to. And you can argue that it's not …”
Patel: Meta is buying small clusters from long-tail compute providers
“Well, Meta interestingly has gone down market for a compute because they, there's not enough compute in the big size deal. So they've actually gone and like bought like small clusters.”
Meta is projected to spend $115B to $135B on AI CapEx
“Now they're gonna plot plow a hundred and thirty five billion, according to the wall street journal, New York times said one 15, but either way, it's like more than half of the revenues.”
Thinking Machines could exit for $30B to $60B within two years
“Thinking machines could probably exit somewhere at between 30 and 60 today. Who has that money? I don't know. Maybe NVIDIA buys them or something. At least at some point over the next two years. I think the most likely acquirers would probably be Microsoft, Ap…”
Gurman: Apple's 2027 smart glasses will not feature visual displays
“The first version won't have displays, like the older metal Ray-Bans or the base level metal Ray-Bans. Those are coming out in twenty-twenty-seven.”
Gurman: Meta's next-gen display glasses will feature binocular screens
“The current Meta's, they have one screen in them. The second generation version will have displays in, in, in both eyes.”
Hays: Reflection AI is in talks to raise $1B for open-source models
“It was reported yesterday by the misinformation that reflection, reflection the misinformation reported that reflection one-year-old startup we've had the CEO on before he's in talks to raise one billion to develop open source models to compete with deep sea m…”
Coogan: The FTC blocking Meta's VR fitness acquisition made no sense
“The worst example I can think of is Meta bought a VR fitness app, and they said that Meta was trying to create a monopoly in the VR fitness market, which is just not a market at all. It doesn't even exist, and I don't know anyone that does VR fitness, and it's…”
Hays: Meta will pursue AI companionship but avoid romantic companion modes
“I still think they'll take more shots on goal around companionship. Will they go grok waifu mode? No. I don't think they want that revenue line.”
Coogan: SemiAnalysis clocks ChatGPT at 71% of AI query share
“So semi-analysis, clocks, chat GPTs, share of queries, it's 71%. Meta is in second at 12%, and that's with billions of users on meta products, and so OpenAI is certainly running away with consumer.”
Coogan: Future consumer AI plays won't be standalone home screen apps
“It feels like the rest of consumer AI plays will be, I would say, like, horizontal in the sense that it won't be a new app on your home screen. Meta won't have Meta AI as a home screen app.”
Coogan: Meta Will Not Try To Directly Disrupt ChatGPT
“I don't think that Meta is necessarily going to try and go eat ChatGPT's lunch. Like I was revisiting that conversation that we had with Jeff Huber, and he was saying like, you know, he was kind of reiterating like, never bet against Zuck. Like he's working on…”
Depue: Meta has not had a homegrown product innovation stick in a while
“It's been a while since they had a product innovation that was homegrown that really stuck.”
Coogan: Zuckerberg Poached Four Senior OpenAI Researchers For Meta AI
“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg successfully recruited four senior researchers from the company to join Meta's super intelligence lab.”
Kovacevich: Google, Meta, and OpenAI will lead US against China in AI
“Well, like, who do you think is going to do that? It's going to be Google, Meta, OpenAI, right? It's going to be those companies, right?”
Big tech experience does not teach operators how to attack new categories
“There were obviously sales and marketing teams at both Microsoft and Facebook, but you don't really build an intuition for how to like attack a new business category. I think unless you've worked at a startup.”
Asparouhov: Both Democrats and Trump dislike Zuckerberg, enabling FTC antitrust scrutiny
“Zuck has, you know, done his best to cozy up to, you know, so Trump, White House, et cetera, you know, he's wearing his chains, he's tan, he's, you know, looking for Joe again, hanging with Joe Rogan, but also, like, you know, the Dems hate him because they fe…”
Huber: Never bet against Zuckerberg and Meta's distribution power
“Distribution is incredibly important as long as, you know, sort of the incumbents can wake up and can catch up. You know, I would not bet against Zuck And a hundred billion dollars of profit per year.”
Roberts: AI foundation models are swappable infrastructure like AWS, not locked platforms
“I think so many of these models are like hyper competitive in terms of what their performance and output actually looks like. So you can build incredible experiences off of those that can swap pretty easily between them. Yeah, I would think of them more like m…”
Masad: Google's Flutter UX significantly outperforms Meta's open-source infrastructure
“If you go to Google and, you know, use, you know, Flutter, I think that thing is actually much more polished of an experience, because they have a direct incentive to advance the Android ecosystem, for example. And so Facebook, we built really cool pieces of i…”
Masad: Replit Agent V2 improved user metrics by 100% to 500%
“I've never seen a sort of like an AB test as we're rolling out. I've never seen metrics in my entire life. I worked at Facebook, other places. We're moving metrics like crazy. Just be just by improving the agent, like a hundred percent, 500% on certain metrics…”
Lessin: Meta's core ad business faces no AI disruption unlike Google
“They're unlike Google aren't going to get disrupted in their core business on this. They don't have a search business. They don't have a lookup business to disrupt. They have a shit ton of an engagement attention and they sell ads. And you know, what definitel…”
Hays: Consumer AI App Layer Will Be More Competitive Than Model Layer
“This consumer App layer is going to be more competitive in many ways than the foundation model layer because you're competing with Meta, Apple, all these different, you know, Google, et cetera, that have the distribution already.”
Coogan: Meta's Llama is the most-used LLM due to Instagram integration
“They're, because Llama is the number one LLM, not because people are hosting it independently. Although they are, plenty of companies are hosting Llama independently. They're the number one used LLM Because it's tucked into Instagram, and so they just have a t…”
Hays: Meta's metaverse budget could have launched a Starlink competitor
“Meta could have probably almost launched a Starlink competitor with how much they spent on the metaverse.”
Coogan: Meta's presidential account unfollow issue was a server-side bug
“What happened was the unfollow demand was so high that the unfollow requests weren't going through on the server side. So then it looked like I unfollowed it. And then I was like, cool. I unfollowed it because it updated on the front end. It didn't update on t…”