Is Mark Zuckerberg a Robot?

Meta and Apple enter humanoid robotics.

Credit: A Tesla Optimus robot, also known as the Tesla Bot, at the Paris Motor Show. (Nathan Laine).

Can someone tell Mark Zuckerberg to get serious? I need to rant about about this.

After spending over $100 billion on VR/AR pursuits, Mark Zuckerberg, the cold faced CEO of Facebook, now called Meta, thinks he’s good at AI and hardware.

Congrats Mark, you managed to sell 2 million pairs of Ray-Bans. You managed to push Llama models into the world and stimulate the Chinese in Open-source, that’s quite an achievement! Thanks for those models 🦙.

Your MMA and Hawaii brand pivot has gone from robotic to authentic, so I was not terribly surprised that you think you can contribute to the software & AI behind consumer and humanoid robots! Nevermind all your failures in hardware historically, someone at Meta thinks this is a good idea? Or is it just you again.

Meta wants to make the AI, sensors, and software for humanoid robots, according to Bloomberg.

A subscription service for Ray-Bans sire, and would you like a robot with that? We found out last week that weirdly enough Facebook parent Meta is entering the competitive field of humanoid robotics, joining rivals such as Nvidia-backed Figure AI.

Perhaps Trump told the Tech Moguls that humanoid robots should be made in America too? Nevermind Mark’s immature behavior. What does becoming a tech tycoon do to your ethics, ask Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman. Is BigTech going to get serious about humanoid robots?

Apple is exploring Humanoid robots too. Apple’s failure to finish its smart car was quite a spectacle of how it might not be the same company it once was.

Meta is reportedly working on a pair of glasses with a display for later in 2025, but robots? Meta basically wants to be the “engine behind” powering humanoid general purpose robots. Currently that’s a bit what Nvidia is doing. Since when can Meta compete with Nvidia, in anything?

The company (Meta) plans to allocate around $65 billion this year to various related developments, including artificial intelligence infrastructure and robotics initiatives, AI Infrastructure and open-source models, I get, well sort of. Until Llama can no longer keep up with China in open-weight model iteration, which is likely about to happen later in 2025 itself.

Zuck’s Hawaii Bunker Needs Robots to do the Laundry

Meta plans to work on its own humanoid robot hardware, with an initial focus on household chores. Its bigger ambition is to make the underlying AI, sensors and software for robots that will be manufactured and sold by a range of companies, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the initiative hasn’t been announced.

Tech bro, did you say folding laundry? Because that’s like, what everyone wants from these devices as expensive as cars for, somehow? A lot of actual human productivity and work-life balances comes down to chores.

Kuo projects 2028 as an optimistic timeline for mass production of Apple’s humanoids, but after Project Titan, who even knowns with Apple’s technological capabilities any longer? Apple worked on Project Titan for approximately a decade, starting in 2014 and officially canceling the project in early 2024. Facebook’s many failures in devices and hardware is a long list of wasted money on projects.

Sources tell the outlet that a newly formed team within Meta’s Reality Labs division will start by working on “humanoid robot hardware” capable of completing household chores. That sounds about as probable as OpenAI building their own humanoids. OpenAI needed the help of Broadcom among others (like Marvell) just to build an AI chip for interference. '

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