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meric_··on Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
No reason for it to. Software companies use products from other software companeis all the time.
meric_··on Meta VR Glasses
It has progressed. The tech is just expensive and heavy and... all sorts of tradeoffs. Meta had a prototype (Boba) with a 180 horizontal and 120 vertical FoV

But it of course is large and heavy like the quest pro and expensive most likely. Things that when you market to consumers don't pan out.

So they are optimizing on the other dimension (weight) which of course trades of many other dimensions.

meric_··on Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
All anthropic launches are like this. They just post it and don't particularly put out the PR sprint that OpenAI does with videos, livestreams or whatever.

(Except for of course Mythos and whatnot when they want to push the whole "safety" thing)

meric_··on Claude Opus 5.5
Remember when OpenAI models loved talking about goblins and whatnot due to the RL?

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

Small quirks can quickly add up in posttraining if not caught. Although TBH with how obvious Claude language is, I do feel like this is something Anthropic probably noticed and just assumed people would not care about. Now that people have obviously cared, they're probably actively looking to alleviate it

meric_··on Claude Opus 5.5
Opus does seem like a more powerful coding workhorse based on the benchmarks listed though. Good coding performance, faster and less verbose, cheaper.

Will be interesting to see how people's opinions of it line up IRL, but so far I've loved Fable so hopefully will love this one too

meric_··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
https://typesafe.ai/blog/antibenchmaxxing

But also effectively this is a classification model. It excels at specific certain types of workloads, and obviously will fail at others. Not really sure how one benchmarks this tbf. I can see their argument on why this requires a novel specific eval for whatever your usecase is. A consistent "global" benchmark might be hard to do

meric_··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
You're fooling yourself if the quest provides any advertising data value, let alone 600$ The device is simply just being sold for as a loss and is not a data harvesting operation.

Some quick googling shows the ARPU of a meta user is approx 57$ a year, and ~65$ in NA. Even if the quest provided useful advertising data (it doesn't) it would never come close to 600$ over the lifetime of a user.

I don't even understand what you mean by "biometric data" for advertising purposes. What biometric data is the quest collecting? How in the world is biometric data useful for advertising?

There's a reason why Meta is tens of billions of dollars in the hole for reality labs. It's not to subsidize for advertising that's for sure.

meric_··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
Eh I mean this is common default no? If you inspect element on many sites it links to the career page. Reddit, discord, etc.

Maybe a little distasteful since I suppose since these WordPress sites are not owned by WordPress, but I wouldn't really say it's unique or necessarily poaching

meric_··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Their $ per mtok is quite high though for an indie project with no roi
meric_··on Muse Spark 1.3
Cline experiment: https://x.com/cline/status/2085237843379519737

Muse code: https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse...

> Co-trained with the harness. Muse Code was in the training loop from day one, so tool calls succeed and plans execute cleanly. Crucially, we trained across multiple harnesses, so while the model is at its best in Muse Code, it still generalizes to other coding agents you already use.

meric_··on Muse Spark 1.3
You should use their harness. They trained it on multiple harnesses but have specifically optimized it for their harness. Cline also did an independent experiment w spark 1.2 where using the native harness makes it use fewer tokens / turns to accomplish tasks
meric_··on Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
I don't understand. Why is meta paying 70% while Google tiktok etc are paying 15-30%

Are these not the same apps

meric_··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Because those trivial offences are a nuisance. BART spent millions implementing fare gates which so far, is at a huge loss, but it's dramatically lowered maintenance cost and crime on the transit.

Similarly stores with loss prevention guards are probably losing money, but I'd much rather that than having to click a button to unlock items, etc.

meric_··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Im curious, how often is SSD / storage speed performance really useful? I feel like for many people it's akin to gigabyte wifi in that its nice to have, but not really particularly necessary
meric_··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
OpenRouter is already the entrenched go-to router tbh. There's competitors (Vercel) but they're already well known. Stripe can also make them more competitive because they can waive / profit off the transaction cost. Considering stripe takes like a 3% fee, and the openrouter markup is 5%, that's a pretty big boost.

Now is that enough revenue to earn back 7B.... I'm not too sure. I guess they're betting realy big that these sorts of model routers will gain explosive token usage in the future

meric_··on Manus will return to operating as an independent company
IMO I disagree. I find the built in harness (database, browser use, etc.) quite good.

The only downside (and a big one) is that by not being natively offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. you're paying @ API billing and not plan billing, which makes it less appealing. (Of course Manus has a wrapper around this w some token system, but it ends up being expensive)

meric_··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
It's apache 2.0. Not exactly restrictive?
meric_··on Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'
A janitor doesn't need prediction markets. They could just short the stock (and profit way more that way)
meric_··on Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
Do you know where you are lol? HN is ran by YC. All of the ads are YC ads for that reason
meric_··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
I'm not sure why they even included Opus in the graph. This is effectively a flash/haiku model & should only be compared against Luna
meric_··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Lol is that a helmet? Clearly they're taking the Anthropic path and are safety pilling their models
meric_··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? Human moderators? Sure, but Meta products have approximately half the worlds population using them. At this scale it's pretty mind bogglingly difficult to moderate down everything. The ads/posts served per second is an astronomical number.

This truly is a case where AI is the solution. There's no way to automate this at scale with humans. As AI gets better hopefully detection and moderation will catch up

meric_··on Flock Safety had a car journalist stalked, wrongly accused, and detained
Isn't this a non story? (At least from Flocks perspective) it seems mostly like the fault of the officers involved.

The title makes it sound like they actively seeked to silence a journalist, but nothing in the actual article correlates with that. In fact it's not even the title of the article nor claimed at all in the article.

There's no fancy AI needed to OCR out a 10. It's quite believable at least from Flocks perspective that it's the way the police want it set up. I mean the fact that officers typo'd in the wrong initial value seems to support that.

This is a problem with the cops. Not flock.

meric_··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Video is better. The models just chose older video models which are not SOTA
meric_··on LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
It's the YC playbook. I guess it works, Corgi for example a "AI" insurance company with like only 5 real engineers and a bunch of growth people. Their main customer is other startups mostly YC. Same with Delve.
meric_··on Muse Spark 1.1
Yes but my point is - Resource limits are a "recommendation" and are not strictly enforced - Significantly boosting resources up to 3 did not statistically shift performance results

Sure for old tasks you could argue that now its not required to boost because infra errors are alleviated with better default limits. My point more so is that its a strange thing to index on because if you wanted to cheat on the benchmark, it does not particularly seem like something that shifts results? Once the API is out maybe I'll eat my words, but I don't really believe that if you manually tried to reproduce the results with lower limits you'd see significantly different results

meric_··on Muse Spark 1.1
No they didn't. Please read: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise
meric_··on Muse Spark 1.1
Huh? What are you talking about?

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/infrastructure-noise

Is anthropic benchmark maxxing and cheating on terminal bench too? They don't follow the strict resource "limits" either

meric_··on Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World
It seems to rank at around the same as nano banana (slightly higher) in blind A/B test benchmark but of course gpt image is a step above both right now
meric_··on Midjourney Medical
They founded LeapMotion previously which was pretty big and totally unrelated to AI. They've been doing all sorts of shenanigans it seems
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