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First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals

First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead work on a closed model like the vast majority of its competitors. Now we’ve finally gotten a first glimpse of the fruit of its labor: Muse Spark, codenamed Avocado and developed by the company’s unbelievably expensive Superintelligence Labs. But there’s a big problem that could undermine its flashy new announcement. Despite investors buying into the enthusiasm, sending Meta’s shares soaring six percent following the announcement, the company admitted it likely won’t be able to keep up with competing models. An executive told Bloomberg that the new model won’t be able to keep up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude or Google’s Gemini. In a blog post announcing the new model, the company admitted Muse Spark “is an early data point on our trajectory, and we have larger models in development. As such, the announcement is a bit of an enigma: if …

Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs’ formation

Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs’ formation

Published by skeptic

Meta has been one of the most interesting companies of the generative AI era — initially gaining a loyal and huge following of users for the release of its mostly open source Llama family of large language models (LLMs) beginning in early 2023 but coming to screeching halt last year after Llama 4 debuted to mixed reviews and ultimately, admissions of gaming benchmarks. That bumpy rollout of Llama 4 apparently spurred Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to totally overhaul Meta’s AI operations in the summer of 2025, forming a new internal division, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) which he recruited 29-year-old former Scale AI co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to lead as Chief AI Officer. Now, today, Meta is showing us the fruits of that effort: Muse Spark, a new proprietary model that Wang says (posting on rival social network X, used more often by the machine learning community) is “the most powerful model that meta has released,” and has “support for tool-use, visual chain of thought, & multi-agent orchestration.” He also says it will …

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

Published by Jenni Sidey

This short story first appeared in Dr Bill Dembski’s Substack: Requiem for an artificial superintelligence When Elliot Pryce was twenty-five, people already spoke of him in the past tense, as though his greatness had preceded him. At Caltech he had double majored in electrical and mechanical engineering, finishing with the sort of effortless distinction that caused professors to say things like once in a generation and mean it. Beginning graduate studies at the age of eighteen at the University of Texas at Austin, he moved into battery research and found the seam that others had missed: dry electrode processing joined to a solid-state electrolyte architecture that could be manufactured not delicately, not experimentally, but brutally, at scale. He was not merely clever. He was one of those rare geniuses who could smell where the bottleneck in civilization lay. He defended his dissertation, refused the academy, and founded The Battering Company. The name was juvenile, almost stupid. Investors told him so. He kept it. Within five years the company was valued above two trillion dollars. Pryce cells went …

Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence

Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence

Published by skeptic

I think its product has a profound democratizing effect. In theory, a kid sitting in a provincial town in rural Brazil should be able to receive the same responsive interaction with the Efekta AI teacher as someone living in Mayfair. Is anything lost by the introduction of AI to the classroom? Will we end up with a generation of students who use chatbots as a crutch—to draft essays, solve problems, and so on? They’ll do that, anyway. Trying to shut out AI from schools is senseless. It’s about how you incorporate AI into education. Bad teachers will use it badly, and good teachers will use it very well—as they did whiteboards and calculators. But we’re talking about a more fundamental change. I’m asking what it might mean for students not to develop foundational skills. If you go back to the time when calculators were invented, [people thought that] kids are never going to be able to do mental arithmetic. But that didn’t turn out to be the case. It will have an effect, of course. …

‘We aim for AI that creates value for businesses, not superintelligence’

‘We aim for AI that creates value for businesses, not superintelligence’

Published by Sam Flores

Joëlle Pineau in Paris, April 10, 2024. ROMUALD MEIGNEUX/SIPA “We create value, not magic.” This is how Joëlle Pineau sums up the positioning of Cohere, the Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) start-up where she became head of research in August 2025. Like French AI pioneer Yann LeCun in November 2025, the former number two in AI research at Meta recently left Mark Zuckerberg’s company. Though Pineau is careful not to directly criticize her former employer, she does distance herself from the rhetoric around “superintelligence” or “artificial general intelligence,” capable of matching or surpassing humans in most tasks, as promoted by major AI players like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and now, Meta. Read more Subscribers only Yann Le Cun: ‘Why I’m leaving Meta to launch my own AI start-up’ “We aim to develop artificial intelligence that delivers return on investment for businesses, rather than superintelligence,” she explained, considering the concept of artificial general intelligence “too abstract.” In this highly competitive field, Cohere is a relatively small player: 500 employees, $100 million in annual revenue and about $1.5 …

Meet Dr Victoria Trumbull: the philosopher who says big tech has got it wrong on superintelligence

Meet Dr Victoria Trumbull: the philosopher who says big tech has got it wrong on superintelligence

Published by Sam Flores

Our body’s role in perceiving the world is also, for now, an important distinction from us and machines that is often overlooked in the AI sector. “Embodied beings and biological organisms is one of the first difficulties to surmount in comparison between man and machine,” argues Dr Trumbull. “We perceive the world dynamically, which means qualitatively. We perceive all kinds of colors, properties, textures through multiple senses. As Martin Heidegger [the legendary German philosopher] would say, we’re ‘beings in the world’.” Source link

could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity?

could “superintelligence” challenge the idea of creativity as a uniquely human activity?

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Please note his piece contains spoilers for Ex Machina. In the more than a decade since its release in 2015, the film Ex Machina – written and directed by Alex Garland – has proved to be an insightful forerunner to contemporary concerns surrounding the social and cultural impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what is now commonly termed “superintelligence”. Through the central figure of Ava (an advanced humanoid played by Swedish actor Alicia Vikander), the film explored the ramifications of an AI attaining human-level intelligence and, thereafter, assuming superintelligence. The arrival of superintelligence in AI systems, it has been argued, would signify a level of consciousness and “brain” power that would rapidly challenge the idea of creativity being a uniquely human activity. Anticipating and fearing such an outcome, Ava’s creator, the tech entrepreneur Nathan (Oscar Isaac), hires Caleb (Domhnall Gleason), a programmer, to perform a kind of Turing test on her (a way of assessing if AI can think). DNA Films / Film4 Productions In a succession of events that map her evolving sense …