I've said it before, but today I want to go over some of the top things that have come out of Meta and some of the amazing new AI things they just announced at their Meta conference in their Meta 2024 conference. A bunch of crazy new things. You know, there's incredible headline things like the fact that their Meta AI has just reached 500 million users, which is absolutely insane compared to OpenAI's 200 million monthly active users. So probably maybe even similar monthly active, maybe Meta's even beating them on that.
This is really, really phenomenal. And of course, their Orion glasses. I'm going to be diving into the specifics with all of the new innovation that they've come out with AI. There's a ton that they have announced.
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I think the biggest thing that they announced that everyone is really talking about the most is their Orion glasses. Now, this is really, really interesting because there's obviously other competitors in this space. We have Snapchat who has Snapchat Spectacles. The problem with Snapchat Spectacles is they only have a 30-minute battery life.
So these new Orion glasses that Meta has revealed, absolutely phenomenal because they look just like real glasses. They're slightly bulkier. But when you're comparing these to Snapchat Spectacles, you can just, you know, really tell that there is a, there's quite a big difference in the look. Snapchat's new Spectacles, they look much bulkier.
They're very thick. They just don't look as kind of streamlined as these new Meta ones. So Snapchat is bulky. Now, the other problem with the Snapchat Spectacles is that they only have 30 minutes of battery life.
So they're like, oh, it's a cool GoPro on your head. This is definitely not a good sign in my opinion. So Orion looks much cleaner and they got around, I think, a lot of the battery issues, a lot of the computational issues by having a puck, essentially a small puck that fits in your palm. You keep this in your pocket and it does a lot of the computing for some of the more intensive AI things.
Now, the reason these are important is these aren't just, you know, necessarily AR glasses or maybe just like glasses. These actually project, there's two lenses in here and they project holograms around the room that you are able to look at. So this is really getting to the point where it's replacing something like Apple's Vision Pro or even the Quest, although they do have updates to the Quest. They have a wrist strap that you wear, kind of looks like a watch.
I wouldn't be surprised if they added like a watch face on there. So it's more normal to wear. But essentially, this is going to be, this is going to be for like the hand tracking and all the stuff that you need there. But overall, really impressive.
People are calling this the iPhone moment for Meta just because of, you know, how streamlined and impressive this technology is. Now, they're saying that this is the first consumer full holographic AR glasses. This is what Zuckerberg's saying. The sad thing is they're not coming anytime soon for consumers.
They're definitely lightweight. They've shown this off. I've seen a bunch of interviews where essentially Zuckerberg is showing off these glasses to people. And they have another version of the Orion glasses that are clear.
So they actually have transparent sides. And Zuckerberg was really kind of showing the exact insides of the glasses and just how much everything is really just crammed in there. So really, really impressive everything that they have going on with these glasses. You can see that just inside they have cameras right on the front of the glasses, but the whole thing has just got stuff all on the inside of it.
So anyways, the glasses are really, really impressive and definitely an impressive engineering feat. So they have tested these out with a bunch of impressive people, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. And this was kind of all part of the big reveal. So hologram, meaning you wear these glasses and it can project in front of you, movies, apps, messaging, exactly like you would have expected from Apple's Oculus or Apple's vision quest or sorry, Apple's vision.
So it does all of that and really doesn't, but that doesn't mean they're completely abandoning VR. Meta's quest S3 headset has launched. It's only $299. This is absolutely incredible.
In my opinion, it's got six cameras on the front. It's much, it's a very impressive piece of technology. They're very, very enthusiastic about it. And of course, it's kind of mixed reality.
So the cameras on the front mean that you can also see in front of you, same thing as the Apple vision pro. So yeah, very impressive piece of technology. I feel like it's going to get, I could be wrong. I feel like it's going to get sunsetted by essentially this Orion glasses, but definitely could be wrong on that.
I think Orion is going to be very, very popular. So they've also announced that the quest two and quest pro are going to be discontinued now because they have the new quest S3 out. So that is all going away in favor of that. So let's talk about some of the technology, some that is getting built into meta AI, the really popular AI agent or model.
I mean, it's really the llama, but it's what is powering so much of what they're doing, whether that's Orion or what they're doing with just so many other tools, even the Ray-Ban collab, all of this is being powered by meta AI. So one big update they've announced is that meta AI is going to get a voice. So kind of like open AI that you can talk with on chat, GBT, Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, all, and Instagram are all going to be getting this voice. What's interesting is you're going to get a bunch of different celebrity voices.
So you're going to get Jamie Judy Drench, John Cena, Awkwafina, Kristen Bell, Keegan-Michael Key. So there's a bunch of celebrities that you can get their voices, which is interesting to me only because open AI launched with a bunch of different voices and it had one that sounded very similar to Scarlett Johansson and there was kind of this whole lawsuit. So it looks like meta is going a very different direction where they actually are talking to their celebrities ahead of time, getting licensing deals and paying them for it. Unlike open AI that just sort of tried to rip off Scarlett Johansson's voice, hoping that nobody would, I don't know, would have an issue with that.
So all of this comes just a day after open AI announced that they're going to be rolling out their advanced voice mode, which by the way, I'm still on the wait list for this. So they're going to be rolling out soon, but it's still not on my phone. So hopefully I'm getting that soon. But in any case, it looks like they're really trying to stay competitive.
Now, this is of course their voice advanced voice mode. They've had regular voice for a while on open AI's chat GPT. So I think meta is still catching up because even if they have celebrities and that's cool, they don't have the advanced voice like open AI where it's really, really versatile. It can be happy or sad or fast or slow or quiet or whisper and have all the very like versatility.
So that's all very interesting. Now, all of this to say, meta AI is a very used tool because it's on Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and it has passed 500 million users across all those platforms on meta AI. I've used it a ton. It's actually a fairly decent tool and the distribution is just incredible on all of these social media apps.
So they can really get some impressive usage metrics on all of that. The other big announcement is that meta's llama 3.2 AI model has been released. Now, this is impressive because pretty much a whole bunch of these, the llama models are now multimodal, which is, you know, something that we're seeing from open AI where you're able to essentially interact with data and upload images and do all that kind of stuff. Llama is getting into this now.
This is their new 11 billion and 90 billion parameter models. Can interpret charts, graphs, you know, caption images. They can pinpoint objects and pictures if you give it simple instructions. So it's interesting out of chat GPT, but it's impressive that they're now getting it and becoming very, very competitive with some of the bigger players, especially when you look at the fact that llama is open sourcing and meta is open sourcing so much of what they're putting out with llama.
Unlike open AI who used to be open sourcing, now closed sourcing, but it's a for-profit company from a non-profit. It's so interesting because it seems like these companies have just swapped and reversed that whole dynamic there. So really, really interesting. One thing that is notable, llama 3.2, which is their 11 million and 90 billion parameter models.
You can't actually use them in Europe. This is all due to the use AI act that has a bunch of restrictions. There's a bunch of meta features available everywhere else, like image analysis. Those are all disabled for European users.
So unfortunately, in Europe, you're going to need a VPN or you won't be able to use those through meta's products. So we talked a little bit about meta's collaboration with Ray-Ban because it's similar. And I've had a lot of glasses on what the big difference between meta glasses and the new Orion glasses are. I think the main difference is, or the biggest thing you're going to notice is meta's Ray-Ban, these things look much more like real glasses, they're much sleeker, they're a little bit less bulky, and the reason is because they just have less hardware to them.
Mostly they're a camera and a speaker is most of the hardware and a Wi-Fi transmitter. That's all they really have to fit in here. On the lens of the glasses, they actually can project, I believe, messages and other things like that, but it's not. It's just kind of something that will show up in front of your face.
And it's unlike Orion, which is more like holograms where you can look around and there's different things all around you and things are projected around. This is kind of just like something that's just stuck in front of you on these ones. So really, really impressive glasses, really impressive technology either way. They are essentially, you know, these two smart glasses.
You can use it for a bunch of different things. You can talk to it through its speaker and it can display things for you or give you the response that you're looking for. It can talk back through its speaker. You can ask it about things that you're looking at.
So it's got a camera around the front. So if you're looking at your bicycle chain that fell off your bike and you're like, hey, how about this bike chain back on? It sees what you're talking about and it can give you help with that. So overall, really, really impressive.
The other thing that I absolutely loved about that is that it's going to be getting some reminder features and also some live language translation. So it can do English, French, Italian, or Spanish. And in between any of those languages, it can live translate. So if you're talking to someone in English and they reply back in Spanish, you can understand what they're saying.
If you both have glasses, you can talk to both in your native languages and both completely understand each other. So I thought this was really impressive. They also have a bunch of integrations with apps like Amazon Music, Audible, and iHeartRadio. So you can, like, listen to music through the glasses, which is cool.
I'd be curious to see, like, if anyone else around you can hear it or if it's something you just kind of use by yourself or if it can actually replace headphones or not, right? So I guess it's really close to your ear, potentially, but I'd be worried you're just, like, wearing a boombox on your head and you'd be annoying everybody. It can give you the whole recipe to the cake. Stuff you could imagine ChachiPT would do.
And Apple is even working on some image-based search stuff, too. So in any case, this is impressive stuff coming out of Meta. And it can also share what you get back to your Instagram story, which is interesting. The funny use case that I've been using Meta for just yesterday when I realized I do this, you can go over to the Meta app and say, me as, and say anything you want.
You can say, me as royalty, me as a Viking, me as a pirate. And it will generate, it's going to take three pictures of you. You have to look right, left, and straight forward. You take three pictures, and it will take your face and generate you as any of those people.
Now, there's been a bunch of apps that have been doing this over the last year or two. Generate you, and then you make it a 3D version of you, where you can move around it. Really, really impressive stuff. I tried it on a ton of different, I did a ton of different images of myself, which was pretty funny.
A bunch that were Mia's, all sorts of characters, Vikings, pirates, everything else. It's really impressive. I was very, very impressed with the technology. You can go check it out.
Right now, it's live. I was loving it when we can announce it or find out about something that's currently live. The other thing that I think is very, very interesting is they're going to be doing translated dubs for content creators. So what this means is you could create an Instagram reel.
You tell them some sort of story. It's going to be able to dub it in another language, but not just dub it with, you know, another, you speak it in another language. It actually is going to dub your lips as well. So your lips are going to sync up, and to me, that is absolutely amazing.
That's definitely beyond just translating captions. Yeah, it's interesting. I'd be curious to see when it actually comes up, but it's going to do translated dub and lip sync as well. So apparently, they have some experiments right now running to some limited creators in the U.S.
and Latin America. So English and Spanish are the two languages they're focusing on, and I imagine they'll roll this out to more in the future. But overall, very, very interesting. Zuckerberg did a demo that was kind of funny during this whole thing where he had a creator come up, Don Allen Stevenson III, and when he was up on stage, instead of interviewing him, Zuckerberg just interviewed an AI clone of him that was on that AI.
Anyways, funny, funny stuff. So tons of new stuff coming through Meta. Very, very exciting time to be in AI. I'll keep you up to date on all of that, everything else that Meta announces, because there is a ton.
I think they're one of the top players in AI right now, and they're crushing a lot of the competition and open sourcing a lot of this stuff. So definitely getting a ton of points. Again, if you're interested in making money with AI, make sure to join the school community. It is at a discount this week, but the price will increase in the future.
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