Short answer: Jordan Metzner says Meta's new model is not the best but is fast, free to use and catching up, the Meta AI app is near the top of the App Store, and free consumer chat could pressure $20 a month plans.
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From Episode 38: We Built an AI Tool That Replaced a Week of Work, starting at 19:56.
Sam Nadler [19:55]: Cool. So moving on, Meta debuts its new Spark model, which I think is a pivot from its previous strategy of an open source model. But did you get a chance to read this article, and what do you think of this news?
Jordan Metzner [20:14]: Yeah. So I thought it was pretty interesting, and I was gonna tell you to go to the website. If you could just go to a new tab, go to meta.ai. Yeah. Just check it out, and you'll see that the, meta's in the game. Is it the best model compared to some of the other models? I don't think exactly, but it's pretty fast. It's right now free to you to use, and they're catching up. You know? It says 52 opus and 5.4 or higher than that. So, they know they're in fourth place as it tells you right there. But I thought it's pretty interesting. And, if they start to expose these APIs, like, this could be a really interesting game. And, our competition sparks more, inventiveness and ingenuity, so I'm all about it.
Sam Nadler [20:55]: What's Vibes? Okay. We'll see this here. Oh, it's an image generation. Okay.
Jordan Metzner [21:01]: Yeah. Vibes is image. I think they have video as well. If you click where it says image in the middle, you can make videos. So, this is kind of the Sora ish stuff that they have already built into Messenger and some of the other apps across the Meta platforms. But, yeah, it seems like, slowly but surely, you can't give up on them. That's for sure. So you got it? So just, yeah, one new one more chatbot. And you can download the Meta app. I think it's meta dot a I is the app. They have the chatbot available. It's free to use, I think, for Facebook users. And it's top of the App Store right now, like top five, top 10 apps. And, yeah, the game's on. You know? I mean, it just puts pressure on maybe OpenAI and some of these other guys that are charging $20 a month for the consumer. Maybe consumer ChatGPT per se becomes free with Facebook. So it's still early days. It's, Alex Wang's first Alexander Wang's first model of Facebook.
Jordan Metzner [21:50]: So but pretty exciting stuff.
Sam Nadler [21:52]: Awesome. Yeah. Well, great show, Jordan. Thanks for demoing the Google AI Studio. I hope you found my pretty simple estimate trip estimating tool interesting. Again, I think, as long as we can inspire people to build with AI and maybe, apply AI to their own businesses, then that's a win for us. An interesting news. I would love to get my hands on is it called Mythios? What did they call it?
Jordan Metzner [22:20]: Yeah. Mythos. Don't worry. Don't Mythos. I don't think we're getting our hands on that anytime soon.
Sam Nadler [22:24]: Anytime soon. Alright. Well, anything before we close out
Jordan Metzner [22:27]: I think getting your hands on it is a mythos.
Sam Nadler [22:33]: Alright. Agreed. Probably better. Alright. Anything else before we close out this what episode is this?
Jordan Metzner [22:40]: This is episode 38.
Sam Nadler [22:41]: Episode thirty eight?
Jordan Metzner [22:42]: Thirty eight. So congrats. Crazy. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Great job, Sam. Alright. Well, this is a great episode. Fun to talk about AI. Can't wait to see what's happening next week. Hope everyone can like and subscribe and tell their friends about Built This Week, and see you all soon. Bye bye. Built This Week.
