Senior director IG. Formerly YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Lockheed. Interested in AI/ML, creators, platforms, drones, robots, reindustrialization, science, space
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Introducing Muse Wonder, our new family of frontier models with state of the art performance for personal and professional agentic work.
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Today we are launching Muse for Small Business, a collection of connectors that allows businesses to run, grow, and create new opportunities.
Every great American boom is the same story: scarcity becomes abundance, and GDP takes off.
In 1865, moving goods across America was scarce. Then rail track grew from 35,000 miles to over 192,000 by 1900, freight volumes tripled in thirteen years, and a farmer in Kansas could suddenly sell to a buyer in Boston.
Communication went from scarce to abundant with the telegraph, then the telephone, so a shopkeeper could check prices, place orders, and chase debts without leaving the counter.
Steel went from precious to plentiful: by 1913, American mills out-produced all of Europe, which meant cheaper buildings, cheaper machines, and cheaper tools for every workshop in the country.
Each scarcity that fell unlocked a wave of small enterprises, and AI is giving us another wave.
Building Muse for Small Business is a step toward how we make that abundance again: every business owner gets the tools and firepower that used to only belong to large companies.
We've seen this movie before, and it always ends with more prosperity than the pessimists thought possible.
The future is for everyone and today we're excited to accelerate that future muse.ai/business
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Let's build together. Developers can now create their own connectors in Muse. Check it out. muse.ai/platform
Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there.
New connectors are live today. Come build with us. muse.ai/platform
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we just launched invite codes in @Muse !
if your friends use your invite code when signing up, both of you get 🎉1 BILLION TOKENS EACH🎉 for up to 20 friends!
and if you invite all 20 friends, you’ll get early access to our newest features (like 📞☎️🤫 and more!)
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Muse Code is out of beta and now built to handle bigger, more complex engineering tasks. Developers can get started with one command today:
curl -fsSL dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash
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Gonna be in SF next week. Anything interesting going on? Any meetups? New places to eat?
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Reconstructing the world in 3D from random internet photos is a deep rabbit hole.
In 2008, Photosynth proved that 3D reconstruction of smaller monuments was possible. The next year, "Building Rome in a Day" proved it could be done for entire cities.
Since then, there’s been a wild lineage of research from early point clouds to modern NeRFs and 3DGS --with a similar cast of characters appearing along the way.
In this deep dive, we'll break it all down, and explore why IARPA is funding what comes next.
0:00 The Internet's 3D Model of the World
0:40 Building Rome in a Day (2009)
2:09 The Long Tail Problem
3:18 MegaDepth and the Mannequin Challenge
4:44 NeRFs and 3D Gaussian Splatting
7:19 MegaScenes, Doppelgangers, and Foundation Models
10:00 MegaDepth-X Punches Through the Wall
11:26 Why IARPA Is Funding What's Next
13:51 The 4D Frontier and the Sensorium
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Today we're also opening the weights for Muse Glimmer, a great 30B parameter dense model that can run locally. Soon we'll also release the weights for Muse Spark 1.2, our latest foundation model. Meta is a strong supporter of open source and I'm proud of these releases. Congrats to @alexandr_wang and the MSL team for all your great work on these models.
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To understand whether we're making genuine progress on reasoning, we entered our AI models in five international STEM Olympiad competitions this year.
The results:
🏅 Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO): Perfect score on the theory exam — gold medal
🏅 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO): Perfect score on the theory exam — gold medal
🥇 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO): Gold medal, top 4% of human participants
🥇 International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO): Gold-medal level performance
🥇 Romanian Masters of Mathematics (RMM): Gold-medal level performance
Three of these (APhO, IPhO, IMO) were live competitions and our solutions were submitted under real competition conditions and graded by the official judges using the same marking criteria applied to student contestants.
A few things about the approach:
• Models were internally trained versions from the Muse Spark family
• Zero tool use: no search, no code interpreter, no calculator
• Multi-agent orchestration with parallel reasoning
We are excited about where this reasoning capability goes next; frontier research level across scientific domains and personal superintelligence.
Super grateful to the organizing committees of APhO, IPhO, and IMO for supporting our live participation. We have deep respect for the contestants and organizers behind these competitions. 🙏
And proud of the MSL team that pulled this together!
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just setting up my twttr, again
I’ve been heads down building Parallel with some of the best people I’ve ever worked with. We’re creating infrastructure for AIs to search and use the web.
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Super fun (and highly requested!) additional functionality to Gemini… you can now instantly turn your photos into videos! Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers can try it at gemini.google.com
@GeminiApp now lets you transform photos into eight-second videos using Veo 3. Rolling out now. Android, iOS, Web. Global availability. Still experimental, but we wanted our Pro and Ultra members to try it first!
It’s really fun to take kindergarten artwork and make it come to life *with sound* :) 🧵
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The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members!
That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now.
As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish daily.
How to get it 👇
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I'm super proud of the team behind Doppl, our newest experiment from Google Labs! Available now on Android and iOS:
apps.apple.com/us/app/doppl-…
play.google.com/store/apps/d…
🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨
Introducing Doppl, a new mobile app that lets you upload a photo or screenshot of an outfit and then creates a video of you wearing the clothes to help you find your ✨aesthetic ✨
Available on iOS and Android in the US to users 18+, download the experiment today and let us know what you think!
Learn more → blog.google/technology/googl…
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Thrilled to introduce AlphaGenome, our new DNA sequence model now available via our AlphaGenome API. Really excited to see how the scientific community uses AlphaGenome’s predictions to understand genome function, drive biological discoveries, develop new treatments, and more...
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Flow turns one month old tomorrow, and you've blown us away with your creativity - so encouraging for all of us on the team! We've got lots more coming!
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You asked, and it's now ready: uploading videos is now supported in @GeminiApp on Android and iOS for everyone
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Search Live with voice is rolling out today in AI Mode! Now you can ask anything, have a back-and-forth conversation with Search and get an instant audio response – with on-screen links to explore more on the web. Just make sure you’re opted into the AI Mode Labs experiment in the U.S. → labs.google.com/search/exper…
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This is the part of the new job at @a16z that I’m most excited about: Building an incredible team.
I’ve been deeply impressed by the level of talent and ambition here and I’m pumped to build off it.
We’re hiring for the following roles first at the intersection of media, networks, and investing.
Chief of Staff: help me run media, investing, and network initiatives. Senior role with a big impact.
Networks: Help build digital and IRL community across our extended networks of founders, investors, creators, and the tech ecosystem more broadly. Help run our VIP group chat operation.
Podcast Network: Run our internal podcast network and build a team to service our partner shows externally. We’re going big here.
Podcast Host: Lead and be the face of a vertical show (e.g. AI, bio, health, consumer, company breakdowns, requests for startups, company building).
Talent & Partnerships: Scout, develop, and manage the right creators & hosts as part of our external network.
Research/Content Production: Help us curate the most important conversations in tech.
Growth: Own audience development across our network.
Sales: Drive sponsorships and brand monetization on behalf of our shows and our partners.
Social: Lead our channels across platforms and build out our clips operation.
Marketing: Help our partners and funds tell our stories and reach the people we care about.
Reach out to me at [email protected] if interested and share why you’d be a fit / what your plan would be in the role.
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1/ Today, Veo 2, our state-of-the-art video model, is rolling out to Gemini Advanced + Whisk!
You can create 8s, high-res videos from text prompts in @GeminiApp with fluid character movement + lifelike scenes across a range of styles. Tip: the more detailed your description, the better.