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💡 Meta next to reveal robot plans
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🧐 Perplexity copies OpenAI?
🚫 Musk shot down by OpenAI board
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💡 Meta next to reveal robot plans
🚨 Our Report — One week after Apple analyst—Ming-Chi Kuo—leaked that Apple is exploring “both humanoid and non-humanoid robots for its future smart home ecosystem,” reports have revealed that Meta has also formed a new team to develop AI-assisted robots.
🔓 Key Points:
The team—which will sit within Meta’s ‘Reality Labs’ division—will be led by Marc Whitten, ex-CEO of failed robotaxi firm, Cruise, and will develop humanoid robotics hardware, capable of completing household chores.
But rather than build a Meta-branded ‘robot butler’—as many have suggested—Meta wants to develop “the underlying AI, sensors, and software for robots that will be manufactured and sold by a range of companies.”
To achieve this, Meta is talking to robotics companies—including Unitree Robotics and Figure AI—about potential collaborations and plans to leverage the existing tech used in its Quest VR and Ray-Ban smart glasses.
🔐 Relevance — This comes as Meta recently made another round of global layoffs—affecting around 4,000 people across the US, Europe, and Asia—to streamline its workforce (but keeping those with key AI skills and experience), reorganized its internal divisions to focus more on AI, and started rapidly recruiting ML engineers.
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TOGETHER WITH MODE MOBILE
Data Just Made Palantir Worth $250B - Is This #1 Software Company Next?
Palantir's stock just surged over 300% YOY as big data turned the company into a $250B tech giant.
The big data goldrush is here, but the company that stands to profit the most may not be Palantir…
A new disruption to smartphones gives users a share in the data earnings, already facilitating +$325M in earnings and generating +$60M in revenue.
With 32,481% revenue growth, this company is gearing up for a possible Nasdaq listing (stock ticker: $MODE), and pre-IPO shares are available at only $0.26/share.
Their disruptive EarnPhone is now being distributed by Walmart and Best Buy, and it’s only a matter of time before people start catching on.
Space in Mode's pre-IPO offering is limited, and they are 90% towards their $20M milestone.
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🧐 Perplexity copies OpenAI?
🚨 Our Report — AI search engine start-up, Perplexity, has become the latest to release an in-depth research tool (called Deep Research) that “excels at a range of expert-level tasks” and is capable of completing deep research and answering complex questions, with citations.
🔓 Key Points:
The tool “iteratively searches, reads documents, and reasons about what to do next, refining its research plan as it learns more about the subject areas,” supposedly “similar to how a human might research a new topic.”
It scored 21.1% on Humanity’s Last Exam—a benchmark test with expert-level questions—beating Google’s Deep Research tool (6.2%), but not OpenAI’s, which scored 26.6%.
It’s also quicker to respond (taking under 3mins, OpenAI’s can take up to 30mins) and users can use it for nothing—OpenAI charges users $200 to use their version—as Perplexity wants to “democratize ‘expertise on any topic.’
🔐 Relevance — Google released its version of the research tool in December, OpenAI launched its version earlier this month, and somewhat surprisingly, all three have chosen to call the feature “Deep Research,” although when asked, the Perplexity chatbot highlighted that OpenAI’s tool “dominates in analytical depth for Enterprise,” Google’s “integrates most seamlessly with existing productivity ecosystems,” and Perplexity’s “excels in speed and accessibility for casual researchers.”
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🚫 Musk shot down by OpenAI board
After finally receiving Elon Musk’s formal offer to buy the non-profit arm that governs OpenAI for $97.4B, OpenAI’s board of directors has officially and “unanimously” rejected his offer.
Chairman Bret Taylor dismissed Musk’s reason for wanting to buy the company—to return it to its original mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity—as merely “an attempt to disrupt his competition.”
Musks’ allies have rallied though, and called CEO, Sam Altman, a “phony” who is “trying to get away with cheating the charity and its original mission,” after Altman said Musks’ offer came “from a position of insecurity.”
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