It\u2019s turned into a model drop week as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI\u2019s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT\u2019s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and a tiny Tamagotchi-style device next. <\/p>\n
On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into Meta\u2019s consumer AI strategy and what it means for the startups trying to build on top of this technology, from where the money is flowing to which AI products might actually become part of people’s daily lives. They also get into a16z’s new school for aspiring founders and two very different AI and hardware deals. <\/p>\n
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Chapters:<\/p>\n
00:00 Intro <\/p>\n
3:33 Model drop week: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta’s Muse <\/p>\n
3:58 They said they\u2019d pace the frontier…they didn\u2019t say how fast <\/p>\n
7:26 Why Meta is betting on consumer instead of enterprise <\/p>\n
9:35 Sean\u2019s Muse Review <\/p>\n
15:56 Meta’s glasses and Tamagotchi-style wearable <\/p>\n
18:14 a16z launches its own founder academy <\/p>\n
27:31 Aura’s $2.2B IPO <\/p>\n
30:22 Ema raises $77M for AI agent teams <\/p>\n
33:20 Outro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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