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Meta's $200 billion AI bet with uncertain odds
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Mark Zuckerberg was about to spend up to $200 billion, more than the entire Disney company is worth, on an AI that didn't exist yet. So he asked the guy building it if he was sure it would work, and even that guy wasn't sure. The guy is Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta's AI lab, and the story came out on John Collison's podcast this week. Late last year Meta's top executives were together in Hawaii, and Wang says the CFO, Susan Li, pulled him aside more than once on that trip to warn him that if…
kirillk_web3@kirillk_web31d ago
🚨do you understand what Zuckerberg just admitted about Meta's first frontier model. Zuckerberg: "We're gonna write this check for like $100 billion, $200 billion. I'm like, Alex, are you sure this is going to work?" Alexandr Wang: "…certainly not clear at all that it was going to work." it's called Muse Wonder. here's the part nobody is talking about: > Meta's own tests put it level with Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra > on MemoryBench it beats Fable, Opus and Astra > $4 input, $20 output per million tokens, same tier as Opus 5.5 > trained at Prometheus, Meta's new data center in Ohio > no independent benchmarks yet $200 billion. one bet. and the guy signing the check wasn't sure it would work. now we find out if it did. watch the clip below ↓