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What were the highlights and lessons from Meta Connect’s keynote and live demos?
MetaConnect yesterday. Zuck likes going late. 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern for the keynote.
Well, because he wanted to roll straight from the keynote into some beer pong.
Oh, that's true. We will get into that big, hot debate on the timeline over his beer pong strategy. Really, really tight keynote. Very well organized. Very clear. Didn't overstay its welcome. Did three live demos. Last year there was a hiccup with a live demo, Wi-Fi, and I believe Boz triggered everyone's agents by using the wake word. So this time he deliberately stayed away from using that wake word and used the name of his agent. So he didn't cause a lot of chaos in the dome or in the studio, wherever they were. But A bunch of great announcements, really good pacing, really tight one-hour keynote. And it was fun watching Zuck sort of do the live demos and be like one down. It was high stakes. It was clearly high stakes for him.
But he got through it all. No mistakes.
Yeah, he had a funny line. He was like, and we love live demos here.
Yeah. It's funny because like he totally could just not do live demos, but he like wants to.
So I think you need to.
Do you
think you absolutely need to? People have bought so many random hardware devices. True. Haven't met expectations. Yeah. And I guess there was that hardware. If you want people to buy it, you have to do a live demo.
Yeah, there was a demo of a Gemini model running like two years ago that was like sped up in post and that faced a lot of criticism. And so I think, yeah, just demoing things as they are available in the real world is great. very valuable. And I think in general, like the thesis for the products was like meet people where they are delivering tomorrow's technology with today's constraints. And that's just what I kept seeing as a theme was like, what do people want? And of course the best, uh, It basically created a huge dichotomy between like the crazy super intelligence, RSI, ASI, PDoom, X-Risk crew, and then just like Muse. It's a helpful agent. Neeraj Agarwal summed it up well. Anthropic marketing. We built a god only we can control and gave it a wet lab.
Muse marketing. Hey, girl, I know you have dozens of unpaid parking tickets. Let's get that cleaned up. And it's funny
because
it's actually working. I think that if you went back to a couple months ago, the consensus was like popularity of AI is turning. It's deeply unpopular. You need to just be quiet or not talk. lean in or just like apologize. Like what a lot of the lab leaders are doing, just being like, yeah, it is bad. I'm sorry. But meta has taken a very different approach. They're not fear mongering. They're just like, it's cute. It's lovable. And, uh, and they actually are successful. I mean, the New York times yesterday, Jensen and Ezra duking it out over like X risk and, and acceleration. Do we need to slow down? Meanwhile, the New York times published like a really positive review of muse. They like, they love it. And like, they're a tough, uh,
cookie to like win over basically. So success there. And it's interesting because it's been, there's been a few strikes for meta over the past two years. The vertical AI slop app vibes quickly disappeared.
Why does Meta keep insisting on live product demos despite past mishaps?
I don't even know if it's available anymore. It might've been quietly shuttered or tucked behind a couple different tabs. The core meta chat app that was sort of just like a Gemini, a Chachapati clone. I don't think that ever really took
off. No, over the last year- You have massive spending, clearly massive focus for Meta, but the strategy was at most times completely incoherent. It was scattered. It was not legible to the markets. It was not legible to the tech industry. It was do everything. Yeah, you had Muse code. You had them buying and then having to undo the Manus acquisition. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The meta vibe, the first thing, and again, this was an unforced error. The first thing that they did post the whole talent raid was release like the short form slop video app, which wasn't even. It was Midjourney. Yeah, it was basically a Midjourney rapper. Yeah. And everyone was like, okay, like this doesn't align to what you're putting out, which is this like personal super intelligence.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the highlights and lessons from Meta Connect’s keynote and live demos?
0:02–3:23
2
Why does Meta keep insisting on live product demos despite past mishaps?
3:23–7:07
3
How is Meta positioning Muse as a “helpful agent” versus the X‑Risk narrative?
7:07–11:09
4
What internal employee vibes are emerging at Meta after the recent announcements?
11:09–15:17
5
How does Meta’s new VR headset compare to Apple Vision Pro and what are its unique use‑cases?
15:17–19:37
6
What actually happened with the OpenAI‑Australia incident and why is it being downplayed?
19:37–24:56
7
Is Bentley’s new electric SUV a smart move given market trends and pricing?
24:56–29:23
8
What are the takeaways from the discussion on Muse Charm, pricing, and future hardware strategy?
29:23–31:36
Speakers
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