Apple CEO Tim Cook is reportedly obsessed with shipping true augmented reality glasses before Meta can pull it off. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Cook views the Vision Pro as merely a stepping stone toward lightweight specs, making the project his personal top priority. It's still years away given battery and display hurdles, so Apple may drop basic AI glasses first to stay competitive.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth just laid out the company's roadmap for 2025, calling smart glasses the first hardware category completely defined by AI. The company is rolling out an early access preview of Live AI this month, shifting assistants from prompt-based replies to proactive helpers that follow your day.
AI giants OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are reportedly hitting a wall while developing next-generation models. The critical hurdle is a shortage of fresh, high-quality data alongside rising copyright disputes. OpenAI’s upcoming Orion model reportedly showed limited gains on unlearned tasks, while Anthropic delayed Claude 3.5 Opus. The brute-force scaling era may finally be running out of internet text.
OpenAI is rethinking its development playbook as its next flagship model, code-named Orion, shows smaller performance gains than anticipated. Early tests indicate it struggles to deliver dramatic improvements in areas like coding. The company is now leaning into synthetic data and post-training methods, while confirming Orion will not arrive this year.
Meta's former augmented reality hardware lead Caitlin Kalinowski just joined OpenAI to oversee its robotics and consumer hardware teams. Kalinowski previously led the development of Meta's Orion glasses prototype and designed MacBooks at Apple. Why it matters: OpenAI is officially reviving its robotics ambitions to bridge multimodal models into physical devices.
OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch Orion, its next frontier AI model, by December, according to The Verge. Sources say it won't land in ChatGPT right away and will go to close partners first, though Sam Altman called the report fake news and an OpenAI spokesperson denied any plans to release Orion this year.
OpenAI is reportedly developing a reasoning-focused AI codenamed Strawberry, which tackles unseen math and coding problems and has already been shown to U.S. national security officials. While a distilled version could arrive in ChatGPT as early as this fall, OpenAI is actively using Strawberry to generate synthetic training data for Orion, its true GPT-4 successor.
