Anthropic Opens Bio "Wet Lab" in SF and Meta's Muse App

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We made it to the weekend. I hope you guys are all doing fantastic. Titting on the show, I want to talk about Anthropic, and they are quietly setting up a biology lab. They're ramping up their AI drug program. There is, as you can imagine, a lot of comments on X and everywhere else about this. We also have some news that I'm excited for, and I feel like I'm turning into a Meta stan at this point, which I've never been in my entire life. But Meta's Muse app is now on Mac. They have a Mac app, and I'm actually super stoked about that. We also have the fact that Mamas is looking at a $4 billion valuation. They're doing a $500 million raise. This is after Meta bought them, and Beijing said, just kidding, they meant basically like turn the company back and unwind the acquisition. We also have the fact that the FAA is tapping airspace intelligence for an $875 million AI air traffic control system. Lots of comments on this right now.

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There's a lot of people commenting on it, but one of the people was Trimoth Polyhapitiya from the All In Podcast, and he said, the group behind such hits as We're All Going to Die and Regulate Me Now are building a wet lab in San Francisco. I do not recommend this. This is kind of the response that I think a lot of people have been getting. And honestly, I mean, it's not a shocker why this is happening. You have Anthropic out there saying, look, like AI is going to end humanity. And one of the reasons is they're like, you know, biological warfare. And, you know, they're like AI and drones and AI robotics. They're like, there's all these different ways that AI could end humanity. And one of them is like biological warfare. And by the way, we're setting up our own wet lab and getting it to be completely controlled by Claude. So as you can imagine, a lot of people are sort of freaked out about this and don't think this is a great idea. They basically want Claude to direct all of the laboratory robots. They want there to be very limited human intervention. And they said that they believe, so the reason why they're doing this is they believe that this could accelerate research into a lot of different rare and what they're calling undruggable diseases. They think that they're focused on preclinical research rather than clinical trials is going to avoid direct competition with all of the big pharmaceutical companies that are paying them millions of dollars for their technology. So it's interesting. I've never really seen Anthropic shy away from competing head on, whether that's with lawyers or with doctors or like with a lot of different areas, but it appears they are not trying to compete with the pharmaceutical companies who pay them millions of dollars. I would assume hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue comes from pharmaceutical companies. So they're like, look, we're going to enter the space, but not in a way that competes too harshly. So interesting right there. Okay, we had a tweet earlier today from Mark Zuckerberg, where he essentially said, Muse for Mac is out today. It works across apps, files, calendar, notes, and messages on your computer. You control, it can access, the team is shipping fast, download it here. This is something I was actually talking about the other day, because I tried out Muse for the first time, and I'm going to be honest, I have basically never used any Meta AI tools for the last two years. I mean, I've tried them whenever they drop, but something like Meta AI built into Messenger was just always so bad. And their open source models were cool, and I applauded them for doing the llama and for doing the open source models, because I think that that's a really good contribution to technology and developers and everything. But as far as a product that I actually use, it was never the best, so I don't really want to use it if it's not cutting edge. That, I truly believe, has changed with their latest model that they've released and with Muse, and for those that don't know, Muse is basically Claude Cowork or ChatGPT work. Why am I talking about it so much? Why do I care? Guys, this is free to use, and I think that they might be working on some payment tiers or something, but right now, imagine getting ChatGPT work, which by the way, I've used up all of my ChatGPT work credits for the week, and I'm now having to wait five more days for it to reset. And if you're like, wow, you just used a lot, no. Actually, I don't really know how it all works, and I appreciate opening, I giving us resets. I was using the Astra model, not on the highest tier, because if you ask one question on the highest tier of the Astra model, it will use your entire week's usage in one question that runs for two minutes. Learned that the hard way last week. But this week, I had a big project and I did want, you know, a really good model and Astra is an incredible model. So I didn't have it turned up all the way, but I did have it on, you know, like high or something. Maybe it was like in the middle of their five level slider. And on that level, with a very important project that needed that smart of compute, I used up, I guess they gave me three resets. So when you have OpenAI, if you use up all of your tokens, I don't know who assigns the resets or when they assign the resets or why. Maybe it's if they have a glitch or I don't really understand how it works. But I guess I found in my settings that it three resets, meaning I used up all my tokens and I could click reset and it reset me to be full for the week. I did that three times, so I used up my first week and then I used up my three resets. So basically I used up an entire month's worth for in about a week. So one week I used an entire month's worth in like three or four days, I think. Now, I didn't really conceptualize what these resets were worth until once you run out now, it asks you, hey, do you want to reset it? If you click yes, it's $80 for a one week reset now. So even though it's $200 for the whole thing, if you want to reset it for the week because you used it all up. Anyways, lucky for me, I was at a Clawed subscription, and I just go to Clawed and I use it like Opus 5 or something. It's kind of, it feels dumber, but it's not as good. It asks me way more questions. It doesn't understand the project as well. Whatever, I'm not going to die, right? So I just have the $100 Clawed tier as my backup right now. But the reason why I'm talking about this on a Muse episode is because this is actually an incredible solution that as soon as I run out of my Anthropic tokens, I am then going to be going down to the free tier of Muse. And if it's good enough, there's a ton of people saying, they're like, look, I'm just cancelling my OpenAI thing. And I'm not sure if it's as good as Astra. I'm gonna have to really put it through the ringer. I've done a bunch of different tasks with it already and I have tested the app on my computer and I am liking it. One of the big things that I do like about it, by the way, is that it can control your computer. It can access all your files. I mean, this is what we love about OpenAI and Anthropix tools. And I don't know why Google isn't competing in this space. I don't know why Microsoft isn't competing in this space, but I guess Meta is the first one. We do have Grokbot as well, so I guess there's four of them now that are out there. But I love Muse. It's awesome. This is the first time you'll ever hear me say that about a Meta product, basically. I guess the Ray Bans are cool. I don't have them, but I like the vibe there. So I think Meta is doing some good things. I'm gonna give them some big kudos. I'm also gonna give them kudos for the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is probably not him. It's obviously his team, yada yada, whatever. But I do appreciate, even though he owns Threads, the direct competitor to X, he is posting on X, which is a platform I get all my tech news from, all my AI news from. And the reason I found out about the new app, the new desktop app for Muse, was because Zuckerberg tweeted about it, and somehow that showed up in my feed. So I think it's smart. You're seeing, and we're seeing basically all the big players. We're seeing Jensen Huang from Nvidia, who never really was doing this before. Every time an update is coming out of Nvidia, it's the CEO that's doing the tweet. I mean, I think this just makes perfect sense. If your company has a big update, the CEO, the most notable person of the organization, should be putting out the press release and the tweet about it. It shouldn't come from a random, you know, that Meta account that probably not very many people follow because it might just pump out corporate spam as well. So I really love that about it. This is how I found out about it. I've been trying it. It's able to access your computer. You can give it access to whatever you want or don't give it access to wherever you want. Same as everywhere else.