Big Technology Podcast - 谁在AI助手战争中胜出?+ 为什么谷歌没有构建Muse? 封面

谁在AI助手战争中胜出?+ 为什么谷歌没有构建Muse?

Who Wins The AI Assistant Wars? + Why Didn’t Google Build Muse?

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M.G. Siegler 是《Spyglass》一书的作者。Siegler 做客《Big Technology》节目,探讨构建主导性个人 AI 助手的竞争日益激烈的局势。收听本期节目,了解他为何认为 Meta 的 Muse 出乎意料地强大,以及最终将决定胜负的关键因素。我们还讨论了苹果的黑马地位、Anthropic 缺席消费者助手竞赛、Google 屡次出现的产品失误,以及 AI 智能体如何重塑订阅服务、银行、购物和日常计算方式。点击播放,全面了解那些争夺成为掌控你数字生活的 AI 助手的公司。 --- 喜欢《Big Technology》播客吗?请在您常用的播客应用中为我们打五星好评 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐。 想要获得 Big Technology 在 Substack + Discord 上的折扣吗?首年可享八五折优惠:https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b 了解更多广告选择信息。请访问 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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谁会赢得这场大型个人AI助手之战,为什么谷歌没有打造自己的Muse版本?

Who will win the great personal AI assistant war, and why didn't Google build its own version of Muse?

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接下来,M.G. Siegler将为我们带来这些内容。

That's coming up with M.G. Siegler right after this.

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本期节目由Genesys赞助播出。

This episode is brought to you by Genesys.

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要让代理式AI在整个企业中真正发挥作用,到底需要什么条件?

What does it actually take to put agentic AI to work across an entire enterprise?

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我最近与Genesys董事长兼CEO Tony Bates进行了对话,探讨了为什么编排正在成为客户体验领域的竞争优势,以及企业在AI时代需要做好哪些事情。

I recently spoke with Genesys Chairman and CEO Tony Bates about why orchestration is emerging as a competitive advantage in customer experience and what companies need to get right in the AI era.

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随后,我与Voya Financial企业业务解决方案负责人Adam Mitchell坐下来交流,深入了解了一次大规模代理式客户体验转型,包括其中的商业决策、权衡取舍以及一路走来的经验教训。

Then, I sat down with Adam Mitchell, head of Enterprise Business Solutions at Voya Financial, to go inside a large-scale agentic CX transformation, including the business decisions, trade-offs, and lessons along the way.

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你现在就可以在我的YouTube频道上观看这两场对话。

You can watch both conversations now on my YouTube channel today.

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获取前沿计算资源从未像现在这样困难。

It's never been more challenging to get frontier compute.

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你怎么知道该去哪里找、该相信谁,或者该付多少钱呢?

How do you know where to look, who to trust, or how much to pay?

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Akash是一个开放云平台,提供便捷访问、灵活性和安心保障。

Akash is an open cloud that provides easy access, flexibility, and peace of mind.

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这就是为什么像Razer这样的公司能够将推理成本降低15倍。

That's how companies like Razer were able to cut their inference cost by 15 times.

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访问akash.network/alex获取免费咨询。

Visit akash.network/alex for a free consultation.

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那就是akash.network/alex,提供免费咨询。

That's akash.network/alex for a free consultation.

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欢迎收听《大科技播客》。

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast.

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今天是本月的第一个星期一,我们邀请到了Spyglass的M.G. Siegler,他将继续做客我们的节目。

It's the first Monday of the month, and joining us for his recurring spot is M.G. Siegler of Spyglass.

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今天我们要聊的是个人AI助手大战,这场大战在九月初就已经初现端倪,但现在基本上已经升级为一场全面战争,一场传奇性的科技对决,在接下来的几个月里都会持续产生影响。

We're going to talk today all about the personal AI assistant war, which was brewing at the beginning of September, but now has basically escalated into a full-blown battle war, legendary tech face-off that will continue to resonate for months after this.

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我们还要聊聊一个很明显没有竞争产品的公司,那就是谷歌,虽然你也可以说其他公司也有这个问题,但谷歌尤其应该有的。

And we're going to also discuss the one glaring company that doesn't seem to have a competitive product here, which is Google, although you could argue that some others are there, but Google especially should have it.

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那我们开始吧。

So in we go.

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M.G.,很高兴再次见到你。

M.G., great to see you again.

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欢迎回到节目。

Welcome back to the show.

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我真的希望这次录音时电脑别崩溃,因为我同时运行了太多助手了。

I am really hoping my computer doesn't crash during this recording because I'm running so many assistants right now.

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你只要看看我Mac上的活动监视器,都快崩溃了。

If you just look at my activity monitor on my Mac, it's near meltdown.

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我内存还算充足,所以还好,但我也在挑战极限了。

I have a good amount of RAM, so I'm okay, but I'm pushing some limits here.

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这个开场白,你在月初或者上个月初是想不到的,因为九月一号你写了这么一段话:“还没有人真正做出完美的个人助手体验。

Now, this is not a sentence or not an opening you would have anticipated at the beginning of the month, or the beginning of last month, because in September, on the 1st of September, you wrote this: "No one has nailed the true personal assistant experience.

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虽然现在你至少能隐约看到一些端倪,但要说谁能完全实现它,还是很难说。

And while you can finally at least squint to see elements of it, it's still hard to see how anyone will in full."

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现在,我们显然有Meta的Muse。

Now, we have, obviously, Muse from Meta.

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还有Instinct,我记得你在文章里提到过一些。

We have Instinct, which I think you wrote a little bit about in the piece.

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还有OpenAI的Dots。

We have OpenAI Dots.

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还有GrokBot。

We have GrokBot.

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我想微软也以它自己的方式加入了这场竞争。

I guess Microsoft has entered the battle in its own way.

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所以个人助理成了这个月的热门话题,而且我觉得——我其实很想听听你的看法——这不会只是一时的热度。

So personal assistants are the flavor of the month, and it seems like, and I actually would be curious to hear your perspective on this, that it's not just going to be a flash in the pan.

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这看起来是一种新的产品体验,我们才刚开始看到它的早期阶段,而且随着AI能力的进步,它会持续下去。

It seems like this is a new product experience that we're just seeing the early days of that is going to stick given the advancements in AI capabilities.

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所以今天对话一开始,我真的很想听听你的想法。

So I actually would love to hear you at the beginning of our conversation today.

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回到你9月1日的思考,谈谈发生了什么变化,或者是否有任何变化,以及你认为当前AI个人助手大战的局势会如何发展,然后我们再讨论谁可能获胜。

Go back to your thinking there on September 1st and talk a little bit about what's changed or if anything has changed and where you think this current moment in the AI personal assistant wars is going to go, and then we'll get into who might win.

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那篇文章,其背后的推动力部分是由你提到的Instinct驱动的,因为我觉得,虽然感觉像是几个月前的事,但就在几周前,尤其是在所有社交媒体上,我觉得很多风投特别在吹捧Instinct,那是一家在代理型特别是个人助手用例领域的新创业公司。

That post, sort of the impetus behind it was somewhat driven by Instinct, as you mentioned, because I felt like, it feels like months ago already, but even just a few weeks ago, certainly on all the social media feeds, I feel like a lot of VCs in particular were just touting Instinct, which is a new startup in the agentic and specifically personal assistant use case role.

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所以我们看到了很多对它的喜爱。

And so we saw a lot of love for that.

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现在,这是我熟悉的领域。

Now, this is the world I come from.

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我知道这是怎么运作的。

I know how this operates.

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风投觉得他们必须在社交媒体上表达一些喜爱,这样如果有什么交易即将到来,他们才有可能有机会插一脚。

VCs feel like they got to give some love on social media so that they have any shot of potentially getting their foot in the door if there happens to be a deal coming down the pike.

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结果发现——

And as it turns out-

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等一下。

Hold on.

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这可是VC推特的一个好秘密。

This is a good secret of VC Twitter.

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哦。

Oh.

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你是说我们在VC推特上看到的很多内容,其实只是为了在某个融资轮里拿到一些份额?

Are you saying a lot of what we see on VC Twitter is just attempting to get some allocation in a round?

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这算不上什么秘密。

It's hardly a secret.

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我是在暗示这些推文背后有别的动机吗?

Am I suggesting that some of these tweets have ulterior motives behind them?

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我无法想象那会是事实。

I can't imagine that that would ever be the case.

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也许其中一些是出于财务动机吧。

That some of this might be financially motivated, perhaps.

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对,没错。

But yeah.

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我是说,你看到这些的时候,肯定会觉得,天哪,这是不是史上最棒的东西?

I mean, obviously, you read these as like, "Oh my God, is this the greatest thing ever?"

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Instinct 挺酷的。

Instinct is cool.

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所以我就注册了,也拿到了使用权限。

And so I signed up for it, got access to it.

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说实话,他们确实走在了这个趋势的前面,比我们后面要讲到的其他玩家都早。

To their credit, they were ahead of this trend, ahead of which we'll get to, some of the other players coming in.

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不过话说回来——

That said-

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你能描述一下它用起来是什么感觉吗?

Can you describe what it's like?

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用户界面是什么样的,它能帮你完成哪些事情?

What the user interface is like, what it gets done for you?

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所以Instinct,我觉得——

So Instinct, I feel like-

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也许你觉得他们为什么这么早?

Maybe why you think they were so early

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……好吧。

... Okay.

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所以Instinct,首先,再说一遍,回到最初,我觉得写这篇文章的动机基本上是因为我看到Instinct在社交媒体上火了。

So Instinct, first and foremost, again, going back, I feel like the impetus for this piece was basically, I saw Instinct blowing up, at least on the social feeds.

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而且我觉得我自己,作为一个当了多年记者、多年风投的人,这可以追溯到二十年前,我已经看到这个故事上演过很多次了。

And I feel like me, in my own head, having been a reporter for all those years, been a VC for all those years, dating back a couple decades, I've seen this story play out a number of times.

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我只是觉得我们看到了以前见过的一些苗头,你也有同样的经历。

I just felt like we were seeing some inklings of the same things that we've seen before, and you've been in the same boat.

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你以前见过很多这种事情。

You've seen a lot of this stuff before.

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所以感觉就是,好吧,那这里到底发生了什么?

And so it felt like, okay, well, what is actually going on here?

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为什么这次可能会不一样,如果确实不一样的话,还是说其实根本没什么不同?

Why is this time potentially different, if it is, or is it not different at all?

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所以呢,我就注册了Instinct。

And so again, so I signed up for Instinct.

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Instinct,我觉得首先最明显的核心突破之一,就是现在所有这些模型都已经存在了,对吧?

Instinct, I feel like first and foremost, one of their obvious core breakthroughs is just the fact that all these models now exist, right?

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所以很久以前,很多年前,人们就一直在尝试做这种个人助理AI,从很早很早以前在个人电脑上,甚至在我们有智能手机之前。

And so there have been, long time ago, years and years ago, people have been trying to do these personal assistant AI, for everything from way back in the day on PCs, before we had smartphones even.

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而且苹果公司有一个很老的有名的概念视频,叫Knowledge Navigator,是90年代的。如果你没看过,去谷歌搜一下,在YouTube上找找看。

And there was that old famous concept video out of Apple for, it was called Knowledge Navigator in the '90s If you haven't seen it, Google it and look it up on YouTube.

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那是一个很经典的老视频,里面有个助理运行在一个未来感的苹果设备上,有点像iPad。

It's a great old school video of this assistant running on a futuristic Apple device, which sort of is akin to an iPad.

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这个助理有一个脸,是拟人化的虚拟助理,某种程度上和我们现在有的东西很相似,这挺有意思的,但显然那时候太早了。

And this face, this personification of an assistant, a virtual assistant, and in some ways it is analogous to what we have right now, which is interesting, but obviously it was way too early.

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所以快进到现在,看看Instinct一出来就展现的东西,感觉又来了,现在幕后已经有真正的模型了,LLM已经崛起,某种程度上接管了AI,至少目前是这样,所以感觉当然每个人都会去追求那个我一直写的东西,AI的圣杯,至少从消费者角度来看,就是满足个人助理的需求。

So fast-forward to what we're seeing with Instinct out of the gates, and it felt like, again, behind the scenes now we have the actual models in place, being LLMs have risen to sort of take over AI, at least for the time being, and so it feels like of course everyone was going to try to go after what has largely been what I write about, the holy grail of AI, at least from a consumer perspective, fulfilling this personal assistant need.

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我觉得Instinct很聪明,他们意识到只要利用现有的消息传递模式,就能快速起步。

Instinct, I think, wisely recognized that they could sort of get off the ground running fast by simply leveraging already existing messaging paradigms.

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所以他们不是从头开发一个全新的应用,或者在不同平台上推出一整套应用,而是直接说:嘿,用你已经在用的东西,注册我们的服务,然后就像跟朋友或者真人助理一样给我们发消息,告诉我们你需要什么,我们会在后台处理。

So rather than building a whole new app, a whole new suite of apps across all the different platforms, they basically just said, "Hey, use what you're using already, sign up for our service, and just start messaging us just like you would either a friend or potentially a real life assistant, and tell us what you need and we'll work on our end.

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你什么都不用操心。

You don't have to worry about anything.

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你发消息给我们,我们会在后台帮你搞定一切。

We'll work on the back end to get done whatever you message us with."

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我觉得这种体验对很多人来说很神奇,不用费劲去连接各种东西,不用琢磨什么能用什么不能用,直接发消息就行。

And I think there was a lot of magic for people in that experience, like not having to work through all these ideas of hooking all these things up and figuring out what works, what doesn't, and sort of just going.

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我觉得他们早期另一个关键洞察就是非常主动。

And I think their other key insight in those early days at least was also being super proactive.

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我们可以聊聊为什么我觉得以前这些没成功,但很多这类东西都面临一个空白页问题,再加上一个想一口吃成胖子的问题。

So, and we can talk a bit about it why I think it hasn't worked previously, but a lot of these things just have sort of like a blank page problem meets a boil the ocean problem.

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空白页就是,你不知道从哪儿开始,对吧?

So, the blank page, you don't know where to start with these things, right?

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我觉得在大型语言模型时代尤其如此,因为你知道,你可以问它们任何问题,它们都会给你回应。

And that's especially true I feel like in the age of LLMs because as we know you can ask them anything and they'll respond with something.

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这在过去可不是这样的,对吧?

That hasn't been the case historically, right?

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过去它们能回应的内容非常有限,即使是Alexa,在语音AI技术的最后阶段也是如此。

They've been very rigid in what they could respond to or not, dating even with Alexa, right, in the last instantiation of sort of some of the voice-based AI tech.

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那时候要死板得多,你只能做特定的事情。

It was much more rigid and you could only do certain things.

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现在你可以问它们任何问题,那当你能问任何问题时,你会问什么呢?

Now you can ask them anything, so what do you ask when you can sort of ask for anything?

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然后还有那个“煮沸海洋”的问题,我认为这个问题长期阻碍了这个领域的发展,那就是它们一开始就想做太多事情。

And then again, like the boil the ocean problem, which has long, I think, held back this space, which is just they all try to do too much out of the gates.

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就像你又说,对,就随便开始,看看你能做什么。

Like when you say again, like, yeah, just start and see what you can do.

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现在我觉得你可以通过某种提示来绕过这个问题。

Now, I feel like you get around that problem again with some level of prompting.

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基本上,助手会主动来找你,比如说:“嘿,我注意到你收件箱里有一条来自某某的消息。”

So basically the assistant will come at you and say like, "Hey, I noticed that you have a message from so-and-so in your inbox.

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“你想让我回复他们吗?”

Would you like me to respond to them?"

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就这么简单,但也可以深入很多。

As simple as that, but it can be a lot more in-depth than that too.

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比如:“嘿,我注意到这笔账单十天后到期。”

It's like, "Hey, I noticed this bill is due in 10 days.

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“我注意到你还没设置自动付款。”

I noticed you haven't set it up for recurring payments for it.

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“你愿意的话,我可以登录那个网站帮你设置,只要你给我你的信用卡信息。”

Would you like me to, say, log into that site and set them up for you if you give me your credit card information?"

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我们可以深入聊聊这些。

And we can get into some of that.

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但再说一次,那只是起点。

But again, that was sort of the kickoff point.

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直觉就出来了,然后你瞧,我们就开始了后面这一波事情。

Instinct comes out, and then lo and behold, we start this wave of things that come after that.

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所以,当你一开始尝试 Instinct 的时候,我觉得你对 AI 代理能做什么有些怀疑。

And so, when you tried Instinct out in the beginning, I think there was some skepticism that you had about what AI agents could do.

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而且你确实写了相关的内容。

And you actually wrote about it.

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你写道:“我一直回到这个想法,第一批杀手级应用可能更多是趣味性的,让代理为你处理一些轻量级任务,带来绝对的愉悦感,比如打开你的待办事项列表,随着时间推移,你对这项技术越来越熟悉,它接管一切,假设它能做到,那会是循序渐进的小步,而不是一次大的交接。”

You said, "I keep coming back to the idea that the first killer use cases may be more fun in nature, letting agents do lightweight tasks for you that result in an absolute delight, like opening up your to-do list and getting more comfortable over time with the technology, taking over, assuming it can, it will be baby steps, not one big handover."

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所以,在我们讨论其他人加入之前,我很想听听你的看法,你用它做了什么,你觉得这里的潜力是什么,然后我们基本上就要打开闸门,看看随之而来的竞争,从 Meta Muse 开始。

So, before we get into everybody else coming in, I'd just love to get your perspective on what you've used it for and what you think the potential is here, and then we're going to go basically open the floodgates to the competition that came in, starting with Meta Muse.

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这又回到了那种空白页的问题,以及那种想一口吃成胖子的难题。

Again, that speaks to just that sort of blank page problem, and the boil the ocean problem.

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在这个领域,这两者尤其相互矛盾,因为我觉得人们愿意尝试新东西。

They sort of push against one another here in this space in particular, because I feel like people are willing to try something out.

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显然,从网站和应用程序开始,现在有了 AI,人们更是乐于尝试各种新事物。

Obviously dating back to websites and apps, and now with AI, people are more than happy to try things out.

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但现实是,很少有人会在没有立即得到回报的情况下继续使用,因为现在选择太多了,他们很快就会转向下一个东西。

But the reality is that very few people, if they don't get some sort of immediate payback on it, they'll just move on to the next thing because again, there are so many things right now.

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所以,对于像Instinct这样的产品,我觉得它一开始就得给人们一些实实在在的东西。

And so, with a product like this, with what Instinct is offering, I feel like it needed to offer something to people right out of the gates.

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我之前提到的一个问题是,这个领域太宽泛了,要做的事情太多,我不确定杀手级应用会或者应该对每个人都一样。

One of the issues with that which I hit upon is that the reality here, again, because this is such a broad space where there's so much to be done, I'm not sure that the killer use case is going to be or should be the same for everyone.

Speaker 1

以前我可能会说,我们之前可能也讨论过,我会说他们应该专注于买电影票这样简单明确的任务。

Whereas before I may have said, we may have even talked about it previously, I would've said like they should nail getting movie tickets or something that's a simple, pretty defined use case.

Speaker 1

但现在我觉得,也许应该专注于做五到十件事,其中一些会吸引一部分用户,另一些会吸引其他用户。

But here I do feel like that maybe instead there should be a focus on, say, doing five to 10 things, some of which will resonate with some user base, some of which will resonate with others.

Speaker 1

因为我不认为只做好一件事就能解决问题。

Because I don't think it's going to be as simple as sort of just doing one thing really well.

Speaker 1

我确实认为你必须把好几件事都做好。

I do think you have to do a number of things really well.

Speaker 1

尽管如此,我还是觉得需要有一个你可以告诉别人的亮点,比如“哦,它帮我做了这件事”,这种口碑传播的机制,既能吸引人们尝试这些新产品,同时这些产品也需要建立信任,对吧?

That said, I still feel like there needs to be the thing that you tell people, "Oh yeah, it did this thing for me," and it's sort of the viral word of mouth mechanics and it gets people both trying out these new products, but also there's a level of trust that's needed for these products, right?

Speaker 1

所以如果你知道朋友在用这个产品,而且他们显然因为使用而信任它,我觉得你更有可能去尝试。

And so if you know you've heard from a friend that they're using this product and that they obviously inherently trust it because they're using it, you're much more likely, I think, to do that.

Speaker 1

而且我觉得在这个领域,这一点比以往其他领域更重要。

And that matters more so I think in this space than it has in other spaces previously.

Speaker 1

你刚才问到了具体的用例。

And so you asked for specific use cases.

Speaker 1

感觉上,我们一会儿可以聊聊我自己的具体用例,但反复出现、明显引起大家共鸣的事情,就是看看我的开销、信用卡账单,或者一般的账单,然后想办法帮我省钱,对吧?

It feels like the thing, and we can go in my specific use cases in a minute, but it feels like the things that you are seeing over and over again, and the things that are clearly resonating with people is like, look over either my expenses or look over my credit card bills or look over just a general bill of mine and find out a way to save me money, right?

Speaker 1

这总是很吸引人的,对吧?

That's always going to be enticing to people, right?

Speaker 1

比如有没有什么办法,有没有什么我没考虑到的地方?

Like is there a way, is there something I'm not thinking about?

Speaker 1

比如我有这些信用卡,我在付这些账单。

Like I have the XYZ credit cards, and I'm paying XYZ bills.

Speaker 1

我是不是应该用这张信用卡去付那个账单,因为他们有折扣?

Should I be using this credit card to pay this bill because they give you a discount?

Speaker 1

或者这个……免费提供这项服务。

Or this one ... offers this service for free.

Speaker 1

再说,以前也有类似的服务,还有插件、浏览器插件什么的,但我觉得能用自然语言交流,而且对方也用自然语言回应你,不用注册一堆新服务就能做到这一点,我觉得这至少是早期吸引人的一个点,让人感觉“对,我们在省钱。”

And again, there's been services that have done sort of these types of things before, and plugins and browser plugins and whatnot, but I feel like being able to speak in natural language and coming back to you in natural language, not having to sign up for myriad new services to be able to do this, I think that was at least one of the early hooks that got people like, "Yeah, we're saving money.

Speaker 1

这太棒了。”

This is great."

Speaker 0

顺便说一句,有很多讨论,包括一些银行家也在说,银行业之所以还能维持,基本上是因为人们把钱存在不计息的账户里。

By the way, there's been a lot of discussion, including from some bankers, about how basically the banking industry is only solvent because people keep their money in non-interest-bearing accounts.

Speaker 0

如果这些智能代理能高效地把钱从现金账户转到更安全的投资账户,那么银行利用账户里的闲置现金所做的套利,就会给银行业带来巨大的财务冲击。

And if these agents could efficiently move money from cash accounts to safer investment accounts, the arbitrage that banks were doing, for instance, with cash sitting in accounts, would cause a massive financial hit to the banking industry.

Speaker 0

不仅如此,你看信用卡积分这类东西,还有优化——

And not only that, you look at things like credit card points and sort of optimizing-

Speaker 1

完全正确。

Absolutely

Speaker 0

……所有这些其他消费,还有会员卡。

... all these other purchases, loyalty cards.

Speaker 1

对。

Yep.

Speaker 0

如果你把这些交给这些代理,那会颠覆很多东西。

If you hand that over to these agents, that upends so much.

Speaker 1

亚历克斯,更糟糕的是,如果——就像……其他人也说过这个,我觉得这很快就会成为我们的现实。

Even worse than that, Alex, is if, just like- ... and others have talked about this, and I feel like this is quickly becoming our reality.

Speaker 1

想象一下,有多少订阅制业务是建立在人们懒得取消订阅的基础上的,对吧?

Just imagine how many subscription-based businesses are based off of the fact that people just don't cancel, right?

Speaker 1

他们设置好就再也不管了。

They set it and forget it.

Speaker 1

将来,如果你有一个AI代理,它会时不时提醒你,比如:“嘿,我注意到你有一阵子没看HBO Max了,”或者“有一阵子没看Netflix了。”

And, in the future, if you have an agent, an AI agent, who pings you every once in a while and saying like, "Hey, I notice you haven't watched," say, "HBO Max in a while," or "Netflix in a while.

Speaker 1

也许你这个月不想付钱,那就先关掉这个月。

Maybe you just want to not pay for it this month, turn it off for this month.

Speaker 1

然后如果有什么好内容要上线,我会告诉你,你可以再重新打开。”

And then if there's something great coming back on, I can let you know, and you can turn it back on."

Speaker 1

这是一个很简单的例子,但任何订阅服务不都一样吗?

That's one very easy one, but even any subscription service, right?

Speaker 1

就像说,'对,你很久没读了……'

It's like, "Yeah, you haven't read...

Speaker 1

你订阅了这份刊物或这份通讯。

You subscribe to this publication or this newsletter."

Speaker 1

它可以像——

It can like-

Speaker 0

别说《大科技》。

Don't say Big Technology.

Speaker 1

这对所有人都是个问题。

It's a problem for everyone.

Speaker 0

不,这是个问题。

No, it's a problem.

Speaker 1

对我们来说——

For us-

Speaker 0

对,没错。

Yes, that's right

Speaker 1

……对其他人来说,而且——

... for everyone else, and-

Speaker 0

没错。

Correct

Speaker 1

……还有YouTube和所有这些平台。

... and YouTube and all of these things.

Speaker 1

感觉这真的是未来要面对的一个大问题,我也不确定。

It's like, this is a real issue going forward, and I don't know.

Speaker 1

我们显然需要有一个全新的行业围绕这个发展起来,想办法优化这些,同时保持人们的积极性。

We're going to have to obviously have a whole new industry that sort of pops up around this and figures out how to optimize these things and keep people incentivized.

Speaker 1

我们是该推出更多年度合同之类的,还是设置违约金,诸如此类。

Do we do more annual contracts or things, and do we have breakage fees, and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 1

但随之而来的问题还有很多。

But there's a lot coming with this.

Speaker 0

现在还是有个悬而未决的问题,就是这些东西到底能不能成。我从你回答的方式里听出来,你觉得我们刚刚看到的这个东西,会成为一个实实在在的产品,会有很多人用,可能是几百万,甚至几十亿人。

There's still this sort of open question about whether these things are going to work or not, and I'm reading from the way that you're answering that you think that we've just seen the introduction of something that is going to be this concrete product that many people, millions, maybe billions of people, are going to use.

Speaker 0

你是不是觉得这不是那种昙花一现的产品,而是有持久生命力的?

Is your belief that this is not like flash in the pan type of product and something that has staying power?

Speaker 1

我确实相信,至少有一个,可能有好几个这样的东西,以后会被大多数人使用。

I do believe that at least one, and probably a handful of these things, will be used by most people going forward from here.

Speaker 1

我觉得问题在于,要花多长时间才能让大众广泛接受。而且我觉得,关于我们刚才提到的用户流失这些问题,确实还有很多需要解答的地方,因为如果这个服务不能做到你想要的,或者更坦白地说,你根本不知道该让它做什么。

I think there's a question of what the timetable is to get this to mass consumer adoption, and I do think that there is a lot of questions to be answered around some of the stuff we're hitting on with churn and whatnot because if the service doesn't do something that you're sort of looking for, and/or you just, more honestly, you just don't know what you should be asking of it.

Speaker 1

因为再说一遍,很多人注册这些服务就是为了试试看。

Because again, a lot of people sign up for these things just to try it out.

Speaker 1

那有什么坏处呢?

What's the downside of that?

Speaker 1

我就看看它能做什么。

I'll just see what it can do.

Speaker 1

但是等他们试完了那些显而易见的功能,或者朋友告诉他们的功能之后,他们就会想:"那我还能拿它做什么呢?"

But then after they do the obvious stuff or the stuff that their friend told them, they're like, "Well, what else should I be doing with this?"

Speaker 1

他们就是完全没概念。

And they just have no idea.

Speaker 1

这个我们待会儿可以细聊,但我觉得很大一部分会跟提示词有关。

And so we can get to it in a second, but I think a lot of this will be prompting.

Speaker 1

不过从我在这些早期产品里看到的情况来看,我觉得他们完全明白这一点。

And from what I've seen, though, in these early products, I think that they fully understand that.

Speaker 1

很多公司都完全明白,而且他们正在做一些非常聪明的事情,来保持用户的参与度,让用户愿意回来尝试新东西,并且展示真正的价值,包括对我自己也是这样。

A lot of these companies fully understand that, and they're doing some very smart things to sort of keep users engaged, keep people coming back to try it, to try new things, and to show real value, including with myself.

Speaker 1

所以,直接回答你的问题,是的,我觉得这次这些东西会留下来。

So, yes, to answer your question directly, I do think that these things are here to stay this time.

Speaker 1

我觉得我不确定大规模普及的具体时间,比如什么时候我们的父母会开始用它们。

I think that I don't know the exact time horizon for mass adoption, like when our parents will be using them.

Speaker 1

但我确实认为它们会越来越多地融入到我们已经在使用的人工智能服务中。

But I do think that they will be increasingly baked into sort of a lot of the AI services that we're already using.

Speaker 0

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 0

我一开始的直觉,不是故意双关,是想一个一个地聊聊每个产品。

And my instinct initially, no pun intended, was to talk a little bit about each one, one by one.

Speaker 0

但我想换个思路,直接请你分析一下竞争格局,谁最有希望赢。

But I'm going to shift gears a little bit and just ask you to break down the competitive balance and who has the best shot to win.

Speaker 0

那就说说这些产品吧,我们显然有Instinct,有Meta Muse,还有OpenAI刚发布的Dots。

So just to talk through the players, we obviously have Instinct, we have Meta Muse, we have OpenAI's new Dots product, which they just released.

Speaker 0

还有Grok Bot,以及微软的新产品。

We have Grok Bot, we have a new product from Microsoft.

Speaker 0

我们别太深入聊Google Spark——

Let's not go too deep into Google Spark-

Speaker 0

……因为休息之后我们要讨论为什么Google似乎错过了这个机会。

... because we're going to talk about why Google missed this moment seemingly after the break.

Speaker 0

但就目前这些产品来说,我不知道有没有漏掉,但那些看起来是主要的——

But of the players today, and I don't know if I'm missing any, but those seem like the main ones-

Speaker 0

……就分析一下每个个人助理的目标是什么,你觉得最后谁会胜出?

... just break down which personal assistant is going for what, and who do you think comes out on top at the end of this?

Speaker 1

所以现在,我觉得——

So right now, I think-

Speaker 0

这可是个大问题。

It's a big one.

Speaker 1

Instinct 挺有意思的,算是早期入场的玩家之一,而且是家初创公司。

Instinct was interesting as sort of, again, one of the early movers, first players here, and because they're a startup.

Speaker 1

我们之前聊过,风投们发推文,可能是想展示他们对这个产品有多感兴趣。

Now, we talked about VCs putting out their tweets to perhaps showcase how much interest they have in the product.

Speaker 1

而且从各种报道来看,这招似乎挺管用。据报道,他们在短短几个月内就融了三轮资,估值可能已经达到100亿美元了——

And by all accounts, that seems to have worked, as it seems like by the reporting, they've raised something like three rounds in a few months, period, and they're maybe already valued at $10 billion-

Speaker 0

太疯狂了。

Crazy

Speaker 1

——而他们才只有几个员工。

... when they have a handful of employees.

Speaker 0

而且他们的CEO是个相对不知名的人,年轻小伙子,突然就冒出来搞出了这个。

And their CEO's kind of like a relatively unknown person, young guy, just kind of came out of nowhere and did this.

Speaker 1

年轻小伙子。

Young guy.

Speaker 1

他来自Sierra,顺便说一下,

Came out of Sierra, which, full disclosure-

Speaker 0

好的

Okay

Speaker 1

我家是Sierra的投资者,我妻子是它的顾问,这是另一家AI初创公司。

... my family's an investor in, and my wife is an advisor to as another AI startup.

Speaker 1

对,他就是从那里出来的。

But yeah, he came out of that.

Speaker 1

我们在Instinct没有任何财务股份。

And we have no financial stake in Instinct.

Speaker 1

对。

But yeah.

Speaker 1

所以基本上,他显然看到了这个领域,决定要跳进去,全身心投入。

So basically, he obviously saw this world and decided he needed to jump over and jump into this headfirst.

Speaker 1

所以他这么做了,而且我觉得他可能也早就知道,因为传言已经传了一阵子了,很多大玩家,我们待会儿会提到,都在这个领域里试探,可能很快就会推出自己的产品。

And so he did that, and then I think he also probably must have known, because the rumors have been out there for a while, that a lot of people, all the big players, which again, we'll hit on in a second, were all dancing around this space, and potentially coming soon with their own products.

Speaker 1

所以,Instinct对我来说还是很有趣的,主要是因为他们有机会做出点有意思的东西,更像是一个中立的角色,对吧?

And so, Instinct is interesting still to me, mainly in the case that they have a shot at doing something interesting as more of the Switzerland play here, right?

Speaker 1

因为他们现在没有大科技公司的支持。

Because they're not backed by any of the major big tech companies right now.

Speaker 1

他们不属于那些公司。

They're not a part of those.

Speaker 1

所以我觉得,这算是一个不同的话题,而且已经在实时上演了,但我觉得我们会看到这些信息孤岛,比以往任何时候都更明显,甚至超过AI整体到目前为止的情况,某些玩家不希望他们的产品被竞争对手的代理使用,对吧?

And so I feel like, and this is sort of a different topic and one that's already playing out in real time, but I feel like we're going to have these silos, these information silos, that come into play more so than they have even with AI overall to date, where certain players do not want their products being used by certain agents of other companies that they're rivals with, right?

Speaker 1

所以,Instinct现在没有这种问题。

And so, again, Instinct doesn't have that dynamic right now.

Speaker 1

不过,他们面临的是其他一大堆问题,对吧?

Now, they have the whole world of other issues that are up against them, right?

Speaker 1

尽管他们筹了很多钱,但他们没有数十亿数十亿的美元可以花。

Even though they've raised a lot of money, they don't have billions and billions and billions of dollars to spend.

Speaker 1

他们还是个初创公司。

They're still a startup.

Speaker 1

他们还得依赖其他模型。

They're going to be beholden to other models.

Speaker 1

他们还得依赖其他云服务和其他东西。

They're going to be beholden to other clouds and everything else.

Speaker 1

而且他们没有大公司那种现成的分发机制和其他天然优势。

And then they don't have all the built-in mechanisms to do distribution and all the other inherent advantages that the big players have.

Speaker 1

所以,你知道的。

So, you know.

Speaker 0

我们会在休息结束后再回到这个话题,但你提到有些玩家不希望自己的服务接入别人的系统。

And we're going to come back to it at the end of the break, but you talked about some players don't want their services plugging into others.

Speaker 0

我们显然看到亚马逊封了Muse,所以Meta Muse——

We obviously saw that Amazon blocked Muse, so Meta Muse-

Speaker 0

……不能帮你上亚马逊购物,但Shopify站出来说:“我们愿意跟你合作。”

... can't shop on Amazon for you, but Shopify came in and said, "We'll work with you."

Speaker 0

但真正有意思的是,我觉得你写过这个,显然我们下半场会聊到,但现在提出来几乎太重要了——没有谷歌,这些玩意儿全都玩不转。

But the one that's really interesting is, and I think you've written about this, and obviously we're going to get to it at the second half, but it almost feels so important to insert now is none of these things really work without Google.

Speaker 0

我觉得大多数——

I think most-

Speaker 1

对

Yes

Speaker 0

——人……好吧,我不想说大多数还是少数,但Gmail上有十亿多,可能几十亿用户。

... people... Well, I don't even want to say most or less, but we have a billion plus, maybe billions of people on Gmail.

Speaker 0

谷歌日历显然是最流行的日历。

Google Calendar is obviously the biggest calendar.

Speaker 0

当你把这两个和这些工具连起来,它们就能用。

When you connect those two to these things, they work.

Speaker 0

如果不连,对大多数人来说,它们就没法用。

When you don't connect those, for most people, they're not going to work.

Speaker 0

所以,这里的动态很有意思,我在想其中一些是不是在倒计时了,比如Muse,谷歌通常对谁接入它的服务挺开放的,但可能就会说:“行,我们不搞这个。”

And so, it is interesting the dynamic here, and I wonder if some of them are on borrowed time, AKA maybe Muse, where Google, which is typically pretty liberal in terms of who it allows to plug in with its services, might just say, "Yeah, we're not doing that."

Speaker 1

对。

Yep.

Speaker 1

也许接下来和近期最大的问题是,因为基本上,Muse 现在是 Meta 的产品。

Maybe the biggest question sort of going forward and in the immediate future, because basically, Muse is obviously Meta's product right now.

Speaker 1

Dots 是 OpenAI 的产品。

Dots is OpenAI's product.

Speaker 1

它们在某种程度上都是亦敌亦友,对吧?

All of them are frenemies to some extent, right?

Speaker 1

它们要么有算力协议,要么在某些情况下有其他商业相关的协议。

They either have compute deals or in some cases, they have other commerce-related deals.

Speaker 1

你甚至提到亚马逊屏蔽了 Muse。

Even you mentioned Amazon blocking Muse.

Speaker 1

有趣的是,Meta 和亚马逊在其他方面有合作,比如购物元素之类的,还有广告肯定有,但他们仍然觉得有必要这么做,去屏蔽它。

It's interesting because Meta has other deals with Amazon in place for things, for shopping elements and things like that, and advertising for sure, and yet they still felt the need to do this, to block that.

Speaker 1

那这是为什么呢?

And why is that?

Speaker 1

显然,他们在亚马逊上有自己的竞争产品。

Obviously, they have their own competitive products on Amazon.

Speaker 1

他们的Alexa+现在已经在运行了。

They have Alexa+ now working.

Speaker 1

他们之前有个叫Rufus的购物助手,对吧,但现在我觉得他们正在把它过渡到由Alexa+驱动。

They had Rufus, it was called, right, as their shopping assistant for a while, but I think they're transitioning over to it being Alexa+-driven.

Speaker 1

所以他们希望人们使用自己的东西。

And so, they want people to use their own thing.

Speaker 1

我觉得更大的故事在于——

I think the bigger story there-

Speaker 0

而且他们还有广告业务,对吧?

And they have the advertising business, right?

Speaker 1

……就是关于广告的。

... is around advertising.

Speaker 1

正是我所想的。

Exactly what I was thinking.

Speaker 0

对,没错。

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 0

好,继续。

Okay, go.

Speaker 0

说说这个。

Talk about that.

Speaker 1

因为他们不想让其他智能体存在。

Because they don't want other agents.

Speaker 1

智能体不会受到他们在信息流中看到的广告的影响,这些广告是基于他们搜索的内容展示的。

Agents are not impacted by advertising that they see in their feeds based off of what they're searching for.

Speaker 1

所以,这可能会摧毁亚马逊的一个巨大增长引擎,你也知道,亚马逊正是靠这个成为广告领域的主要玩家之一。

And so, that potentially destroys what has been a huge growth driver, as you well know, for Amazon, becoming one of the major players in advertising based off of that.

Speaker 1

所以他们有各种理由不想在这里合作。

And so they have all sorts of reasons for not wanting to play ball here.

Speaker 1

但回到你刚才问的问题,现在那些主要玩家都已经推出了自己的智能体和助手,说实话,我自己都没想到,我真的很喜欢Meta的Muse这个产品。

But just to back up, to go back to you asked which one of the current sort of major players right now that have pushed their agents and assistants out there, I feel like I was surprised, honestly, of myself, that I really like Muse, Meta's product.

Speaker 1

我其实不是特别看好Meta的人。

I am not a big Meta person.

Speaker 1

近年来我写了不少关于他们的负面内容,原因很明显,但我也报道这家公司二十多年了,经历过起起落落,有时候我觉得他们做对了,从产品角度来看,更不用说业务的基本面了。

I've written a lot about sort of negative in recent years about them, for obvious reasons, but also, I've covered the company for 20-some years, and I've gone through ebbs and flows of where I thought that they were doing the right thing, being from a product perspective, let alone the underlying fundamentals of the business and whatnot.

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但我觉得我不喜欢Instagram现在的状态。

But I feel like I do not like the state that, say, Instagram is in.

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我也不喜欢Facebook本身现在的状态。

I do not like the state that Facebook itself is in.

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感觉他们现在就是在榨干那些拥有十亿以上用户的产品,基本上变成了广告容器。

It just feels like all they're doing now is milking their billion-plus user products to basically become, yeah, these ad vessels.

Speaker 1

而我们就像一群没脑子的木偶,坐在那儿看广告。

And we're all just these mindless meep people just sitting there looking at ads.

Speaker 1

所以我很惊讶Muse从一开始就做得这么好,这么出色。

And so I was surprised by how well, and how well done Muse was from the get-go.

Speaker 1

当然,我们也聊过Meta在AI方面的整体情况。

And obviously, we've talked about as well the whole Meta situation with AI.

Speaker 1

他们不得不进行大规模的重启。

They had to do the big reboot.

Speaker 1

我原本很怀疑他们能不能靠砸钱重新回到竞争行列,但他们显然花了数十亿美元来做到这一点,从达成规模交易到建设更多自己的基础设施,还做了其他一系列收购,基本上在一年内就迅速赶上了。

I was pretty skeptical that they could sort of just buy their way back into the race, and they obviously spent billions to do it, from everything from doing the scale deal to building out more of their own infrastructure, doing a bunch of these other acquisitions, and basically just getting up to speed very quickly over a year's span.

Speaker 1

现在,值得肯定的是,他们不仅推出了模型,还推出了新产品。

And now, to their credit, not only getting models out the door, getting a new product.

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这不是他们整合到Facebook或Instagram里的东西。

This is not something that they've baked into Facebook or baked into Instagram.

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他们以后可能会这么做,但这是一个独立服务。

Now, they probably will at some point, but this is a standalone service.

Speaker 1

它有自己的有趣的安全层。

It has its own interesting security layer going on.

Speaker 1

他们为你构建了自己的虚拟专用机器,因为我觉得他们不得不这么做,对吧?

They built their own virtual private machines for you to use because I think they had to, right?

Speaker 1

他们知道人们不会天然信任来自Meta的东西,尤其是来自Meta的东西。

They knew that people are not going to trust this inherently something from Meta, especially something from Meta.

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所以我觉得他们做了很多准备工作才把它搞定,而且说实话,他们甚至比OpenAI还早推出,而AI可是OpenAI的主业。

And so I think that they did a lot of the legwork to get it done, and to their credit, they got it out the door before even OpenAI did, and this is OpenAI's business, AI.

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他们没有其他真正需要专注的业务。

They have no other business that they really need to focus on.

Speaker 1

当然,他们显然也有其他业务方面一直在关注。

Now, they have other facets of the business, obviously, that they have been focused on.

Speaker 1

但Meta的AI团队,那个超级智能实验室,说实话,我觉得他们这次真的做得非常出色,至少就他们推出的Muse早期版本来说。

But the Meta AI team, the super intelligence lab, to their credit, they really, I feel like, knocked it out of the park with this early version, at least, of what they launched with Muse.

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那你觉得,当我们考虑谁会赢的时候,Meta的机会最大吗?

So you think that when we think about who's going to win, that Meta has the best chance?

Speaker 0

因为我觉得现在有一种越来越明显的分歧,你也写过一些关于Dots的内容,那是OpenAI的个人助理。

Because I guess there's this growing, and you wrote about this a little bit about Dots also, which is OpenAI's personal assistant.

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这里存在一个越来越明显的分歧,就是你到底服务于谁的利益,对吧?

There is this growing divergence here between which interests you serve, right?

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所以Muse显然是一个面向消费者的应用,我想很多人会用它来规划假期,或者用它来查看自己的订阅服务,然后决定取消哪一个。

So Muse is clearly a consumer application, so I imagine a lot of people are going to be planning vacations on it and maybe using it to look at their service subscriptions and figure out which one to cut.

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这看起来就是它要瞄准的使用场景,不过,顺便说一句,我觉得有个很大的前提,就是人们愿意下载桌面应用。

That seems like the use cases it will go for if people, by the way, this is I think a big caveat, if people are willing to download the desktop app.

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因为现在有移动应用和桌面应用,而根据我目前的体验,我觉得这些东西不装到电脑上根本没法用。

Because there's the mobile app and the desktop app, and from what I've experienced so far, I don't think these things work without being on your desktop.

Speaker 0

所以我觉得Muse会是个面向消费者的应用。

So I guess Muse will be the consumer application.

Speaker 0

而Dots,你上周写过,尽管它是OpenAI的个人助理,带着那种芝麻街风格的吉祥物。

Dots, and you wrote about this last week, despite the fact that Dots, this is OpenAI's personal assistant, has this kind of Sesame Street type feel with its mascots.

Speaker 0

但它其实是面向企业的。

It's an enterprise thing.

Speaker 1

对。

Yep.

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所以他们瞄准的是企业用户。

And so they're going after enterprise folks.

Speaker 0

我很好奇你怎么看,会不会有两个赢家,一个在企业领域,一个在消费领域?

I'm curious if you think, are there going to be two winners here, one in enterprise, one in consumer?

Speaker 0

这些最终会不会都汇到一起?

Does it all converge?

Speaker 0

对,我想说的是,赢家会是什么样子,最终谁会胜出?

Yeah, I guess, what does winning look like, and who is the ultimate winner?

Speaker 1

所以,回到你刚才说的关于必须待在桌面上的那一点,我完全同意。

So, and just to go back to one point you made about residing on the desktop, totally agree.

Speaker 1

不过,我也觉得Muse在这方面有个有趣的优势,因为他们从第一天起就整合了WhatsApp,对吧?

Though, I also think that Muse has an interesting advantage there in that from day one, they launched with WhatsApp integration, right?

Speaker 1

这是Meta能提供的独特之处,因为他们拥有WhatsApp。

Something unique that Meta can offer because they own WhatsApp.

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所以,虽然我们之前谈到Instinct很聪明地利用了iMessage和其他聊天服务,但我觉得Meta非常聪明,第一天就推出了WhatsApp整合。

And so, whereas we talked about Instinct sort of smartly leveraging iMessage and other chat services, I think that Meta was very smart and launched day one with WhatsApp.

Speaker 1

所以如果你不想用新的服务或新的应用,你完全不需要。

So if you don't want to use a new service, a new application, you don't need to.

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我觉得如果你用CF的话,它功能更全面,而且界面也相当不错,能帮你了解你能做什么。

I think that it's much more fully functional and, just has a pretty good UI to sort of help you with what you can do if you do use CF.

Speaker 1

不好意思。

Excuse me.

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但你完全可以通过WhatsApp来运行它,而且效果很好。

But you can run it fully through WhatsApp, and it totally works.

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现在,Dots,OpenAI的——

Now, Dots, OpenAI's-

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等等,等等。

Wait, wait.

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这百分之百是真的吗?

Is that 100% true?

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因为你可以通过WhatsApp运行它,但Dots的一个好处是它能控制你的整个桌面。

Because you can run it through WhatsApp, but one of the nice things about Dots is that it takes control of your entire desktop.

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它能控制你的浏览器。

It takes control of your browser.

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你装一个浏览器扩展。

You put a browser extension on.

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所以它能访问网站,能帮你做事,还能……

So it can go to websites, and it can do things for you and with...

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我猜 Muse 有虚拟机——

I guess Muse has the virtual machine-

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……可以用,但我觉得,如果你给它足够的权限,比如根控制权之类的,那它在你的环境里会更有用。我知道苹果对此开始有些顾虑。

... that it can use, but, I think being in your context helps a lot if you just give it basically, I don't know if it's called root control or whatever it is, and I know Apple is starting to have some reservations about this.

Speaker 0

但是——

But-

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对

Yes

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……仅仅在 WhatsApp 里就没有那种完全的控制权,而我觉得那才是让它真正有用的关键。

... just being in WhatsApp doesn't give you that full control, and that I think is what you need to make this entirely useful.

Speaker 0

不过,把这种控制权交给这样的东西确实有点吓人。

Although, it is scary to give that type of control to one of these things.

Speaker 1

所以这里有几个问题,对吧?

So there's a couple things in that, right?

Speaker 1

Muse 发布了,刚才也提到过,但 Muse 发布时基本上带了一个云端虚拟电脑,而且是每个用户独享的。

Muse launched, again, talked about this a second ago, but Muse launched with basically a virtual computer in the cloud that is yours alone, and for each individual user.

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这个实现真的很酷,比如你点击 Muse,就能看到它在浏览网站,而且你当然可以接管它。

And it's really a cool implementation down to the point where if you click on your Muse and you can see basically when it's browsing a website, and you can obviously take it over.

Speaker 1

其实其他服务也做过类似的事情。

Now, other services have done that.

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OpenAI 之前也有一个版本可以这么做。

OpenAI's had a version of that that you could do before.

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但 Muse 真的展示了完整的桌面环境,当时有很多新闻说人们下载了云端电脑里的内容,大家对此有点害怕。

But it really shows you that the full desktop is there, and there was a bunch of headlines around people downloading their computer, the contents of their computer in the cloud, and people being a little freaked out by that.

Speaker 1

我觉得 Meta 的回应很有意思,他们说:“对,这就是重点。

And I thought that Meta's response was interesting to that, which is like, "Yeah, that's the point.

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这是你的电脑。

It's your computer.

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你想怎么用就怎么用。”

You can do what you want with it.

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这是你的。

It's yours.

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你可以下载里面的内容。

You can download the contents.

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你想做什么都行。

You can do anything."

Speaker 1

这挺好的。

That's great.

Speaker 1

而且他们现在确实更明确地这样做了,我觉得OpenAI也是。

And they've actually made it more explicitly like that now, and I think OpenAI did as well.

Speaker 1

他们更加倾向于这种模式,你可以点击进入,在他们的虚拟机上启动Chromium。

They're even more leaning into that paradigm where you can click in and you can launch Chromium on their sort of virtual machine.

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所以这是其中的一部分,我觉得这很明智。

So there's that element of it, which again, I feel like is a smart thing to do.

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这消除了很多关于安全性的担忧,以及一些相关的顾虑。

It removes a lot of the worries about security, and some of the concerns there.

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当然,这里面还是有一些其他层面的担忧,但我觉得这么做是明智的。

There's other levels of concern, obviously, that are baked into that still, but I think it was a smart thing to go with.

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你提到的电脑使用,显然很多服务早就有了,而且正如你所说,这就是为什么他们不仅需要网页应用。

What you're talking about, computer use, obviously a lot of these services have had this for a while, and to your point, it's why they needed to have not just web apps.

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这也是为什么他们需要原生应用,能够接入苹果和微软操作系统层面的不同API,从而控制你的电脑。

It's why they needed native applications to be able to port into Apple and Microsoft different APIs on the operating system level to be able to control your computer.

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我猜至少Meta现在在想,他们可以通过这个云服务完成很多人们想通过智能体完成的事情,而不是在桌面上做所有事情。

I would imagine that at least Meta is thinking right now that they think that they can get done a lot of what people want to get done from an agentic perspective, with this cloud service versus doing everything on your desktop.

Speaker 1

但你说得对。

But you're right.

Speaker 1

如果你有一个Excel表格,它不一定在云端,或者就存在本地,或者你习惯在桌面上处理它,那么显然Anthropic在这方面做得非常好是有原因的。

If you have an Excel sheet that's not necessarily in the cloud, or that just resides or that your natural working relationship with it is on your desktop, there's obviously reasons why Anthropic has done super well with that.

Speaker 1

所以我觉得……总之,这里有两种不同的思路,而它们的重要性最终将决定这些服务中哪一个会成为赢家,如果它们中有的话。

And so I think that there's... Anyway, just laying out, there's two different ideas there, and how much that matters will ultimately determine which of these services ends up being sort of a winner, if any of them.

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现在再加上微软,他们最近推出了统一超级应用版本的Copilot,他们的策略当然更偏向企业市场,这历来是他们的强项。

Now you bring into that obviously Microsoft, which has more recently come out with the newly unified super app version of Copilot, and their play is much more, of course, down the enterprise front, which is obviously their bread and butter historically.

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他们也会说想要消费者市场,但我觉得他们只要能守住企业这块,顺便把OpenAI那些潜在的竞争对手压下去,他们就很满意了,因为正如你所说,OpenAI在这里的布局比Meta更偏向商业。

They'll say they want consumer too, but I think that they'll be happy if they can stay in the- ... in the enterprise lane and sort of snuff out some of the would-be competition from OpenAI in particular, because as you note, OpenAI's play here is much more business-focused than what Meta's going after.

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不过,我还是觉得,最终大家都会殊途同归。

Now, I do think, again, they all converge over time.

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他们都想通吃一切。

They all want to own it all.

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他们都想成为那个唯一的智能助手。

They want to be the one agent.

Speaker 1

这里有个悬而未决的问题,这其实可以追溯到几个月前,在所有这些智能体热潮之前,我写过的一篇文章,讲的是“自带AI”这个概念,对吧?

There is this open question, and it sort of dates back to something I wrote several months ago, ahead of all this agentic stuff, which is the notion of bring your own AI, right?

Speaker 1

未来的工作环境会不会变成你把自己用的消费级AI带到工作中,或者反过来,你把工作中用的AI带回家用。

Is the workplace environment going to be such that you bring your own consumer AI service into the work, or vice versa, that you bring home the AI that you're already using.

Speaker 1

人们会想要两个不同的AI,一个工作用,一个家用吗?

Do people want two different AIs, one for work, one for home?

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可能会是这样,也可能最终会有一个AI统领你生活的方方面面,这将是这个领域特别大的一个问号。

That may play out that way, or it may play out that there's the one AI to rule them all of your life, and that's going to be a big question mark for this space in particular.

Speaker 1

因为就像你说的,Meta 更直接地瞄准消费者市场,而微软更直接地瞄准企业市场,OpenAI 则有点混合,再加上那些可爱的形象,这就像我在文章里提到的,那种奇怪的二元对立,一边是表面上的样子,一边是他们似乎想让你做的事情,而后者更偏向工作导向。

Because again, as you're noting, while Meta is going more straightforward after consumer and Microsoft goes more straightforward after enterprise, OpenAI sort of has a hybrid thing, again, with these cutesy figures, which is just this weird dichotomy, as I note in the piece, between what that looks like and what it seems like they're trying to get you to do, which is much more work-oriented.

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我觉得这反映了整个公司的现状,因为他们显然打造了 ChatGPT 这个面向消费者的巨头,但后来他们不得不踩刹车,意识到“天哪,Anthropic 在商业方面已经超过我们了,估值也超过了”,这是为什么呢?

I just felt like that's indicative of the whole company right now because obviously they built this consumer-facing behemoth in ChatGPT itself, but then they, of course, had to sort of halt the breaks and figure out, like, "Oh my God, Anthropic has passed us in terms of the business side, and then in terms of valuation," and why is that?

Speaker 1

也许我们应该关注他们在做什么。

Maybe we should focus on what they're doing.

Speaker 1

所以对我来说,这反映了整个公司过去几个月经历的剧烈摇摆,我觉得 Dots 在某种程度上实时展现了这一点。

And so to me, that's sort of indicative of the whiplash the entire company has been under the past several months, and so I feel like Dots is in some ways playing that out in real time.

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是的,OpenAI 确实有点卡在两种不同用例之间,而且我觉得,我仍然会说它可能是 AI 领域最好的产品。

Yeah, OpenAI does feel a little bit stuck between the two different use case, and it does feel like, I guess I'd still say it's maybe the best product when it comes to AI.

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但它仍然感觉不像是在引领它一直在追随的愿景。

But it still feels like as opposed to setting the vision it has been following to a degree.

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你描述这些的方式让我好奇,它们最终会不会融合在一起?

And the way that you describe these, I do wonder, do they all blend in together?

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有趣的是,当我谈到计算机使用时,听到你对微软的回答,让我想起微软多年前有一个产品,可以监视你的桌面并帮你完成任务,当时引起了反弹,最后他们……

It's funny, when I was talking about computer use, hearing your answer about Microsoft reminded me that Microsoft years ago had this product that watches your desktop and gets stuff done for you, and there was a backlash there, and they ended up-

Speaker 1

对,就是那个Recall。

Right, Recall

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……

...

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我觉得,那个先放一放。

I think, pausing that.

Speaker 1

是的。

Yep.

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是的。

Yep.

Speaker 0

所以想想看,我们会有这么多不同的玩家参与进来。

So just thinking through, we're going to have all these different players involved.

Speaker 0

那你觉得,谁会是最终的赢家,关键区别在哪里?

So what would you say the differentiator is in terms of who's going to win?

Speaker 0

会是那个最能巧妙引导你的那个吗?

Is it going to be the one that sort of nudges you the best?

Speaker 0

还是说,赢家会是那个更能把事情办成的那个?

Is it going to be the one that's more effective in getting things done versus not?

Speaker 0

你觉得这场竞争的界限在哪里,谁会率先冲过终点线?

Where do you think the line of competition is drawn here, and who crosses the finish line?

Speaker 1

我确实觉得,这类产品会有巨大的先发优势。

I do feel like there will be a huge first-mover advantage to a lot of these.

Speaker 1

谁能吸引最多的人注册并真正使用这些产品,谁就能赢。显然,Meta在这方面有巨大的优势,因为他们拥有数十亿用户,横跨多个产品。

Whoever can get sort of the most people signed up and actually using these products, and obviously Meta has a huge advantage there because they have the multi-billion plus user base of several products.

Speaker 1

而OpenAI有ChatGPT,他们从一开始就把这个功能融入了ChatGPT这个超级应用里,所以他们也不是没有底牌。

And OpenAI has ChatGPT, which of course they baked this into the ChatGPT super app from the get-go, and so it's not like they have nothing.

Speaker 1

他们有十亿用户,Sam Altman在Dots发布会上说,他们现在每周活跃用户达到了12亿。

They have a billion, Sam Altman said during the Dots unveiling, they're now at 1.2 billion weekly active users.

Speaker 1

所以这可不是小数目,但跟Meta那三十多亿用户相比,还是差一些,Meta能把这个功能推广到那么多不同的服务里。

So it's nothing to sneeze at, but it's not quite Meta at the three billion plus user scale that they can get this in front of so many different services.

Speaker 0

而且OpenAI只允许Pro订阅用户使用这个功能——

And OpenAI will only let you use it if you're part of the Pro subscription tier-

Speaker 1

确实如此。

That's true

Speaker 0

……才能使用Dots。

... to be able to use Dots.

Speaker 1

说得好。

Good point.

Speaker 0

所以每月100美元。

So $100 a month.

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我得说,我刚刚从每月20美元升级到100美元,就为了能用Dots。

And I have to say, I just upgraded from 20 a month to 100 a month to be able to use Dots.

Speaker 0

我真的很喜欢Dots。

I really like Dots.

Speaker 0

我们在周五的节目里稍微聊过这个。

We spoke about this a little bit on the Friday show.

Speaker 0

我觉得它很棒,而且我知道你写文章说有多喜欢Muse时,也收到了这样的反馈。

I think it's great, and I know you got this feedback when you wrote about how much you like Muse.

Speaker 0

我就是不想让Meta访问我的Gmail和日历,虽然我也说不上完全放心把数据交给OpenAI,但连接ChatGPT的时候,我至少没那么反感。

I just don't have any interest in letting Meta have access to Gmail and Calendar, where for whatever reason, I wouldn't say I feel comfortable giving it to OpenAI, but I feel, I guess, a little bit less of a gag reflex when I connect it to ChatGPT.

Speaker 1

我跟你说,我收到了好多类似的反馈。

And I can't tell you how many messages I got along those lines.

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现在——

Now-

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……

...

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我得提醒自己,我们做这行就是靠这个吃饭的。

I want to be mindful that we do what we do for a living.

Speaker 1

不管住在哪里,我们都算是待在科技圈的小圈子里。

We're a bit in a tech bubble, regardless of where we live and whatnot.

Speaker 1

显然,我们的听众比普通大众更偏向这个方向。

Obviously, the audience is going to skew more in that direction than, say, the general public likely.

Speaker 1

但这确实是个真实存在的问题,对吧?

But it is a real thing, right?

Speaker 1

确实有个真实的担忧,就是Meta不值得信任,我觉得我们马上就能在好莱坞看到这一幕上演,等那些电影上映的时候。

There is this real concern that Meta is just not to be trusted, and I think we're about to see it play out in Hollywood in real time when all these movies come out.

Speaker 0

对。

Yes.

Speaker 1

所以……

And so...

Speaker 0

也许这就是决定谁赢的关键。

Maybe this is who determines who wins.

Speaker 0

我们有一部OpenAI的电影和一部Meta的电影要上映。

We have an OpenAI movie and a Meta movie coming out.

Speaker 1

而且——

And-

Speaker 0

哪一部能把山姆或者马克·扎克伯格刻画得更像个反派,那家公司的个人助理项目就会更难起步。

And whichever one does a better job at portraying Sam or Mark Zuckerberg as, I don't know, a vile character, they will face a harder time getting their personal assistant off the ground.

Speaker 0

我也不知道。

I don't know.

Speaker 0

就这么简单吗?

Is it as simple as that?

Speaker 1

我觉得,这部叫《社交清算》的新Meta电影,算是《社交网络》的非官方续集,应该这周晚些时候上映。

And I think, so this Social Reckoning, which is the new Meta movie, sort of the unofficial sequel to The Social Network, is coming out, I think later this week.

Speaker 1

然后我觉得那部叫《人工智能》的OpenAI电影,今晚应该会首映。

And then I think Artificial, which is the OpenAI movie, I think is having its premiere tonight.

Speaker 1

所以我们很快就能知道了。

So we're going to find out soon.

Speaker 1

但我听到的消息是,我认识一些好莱坞的人,他们都说扎克伯格和奥特曼都被描绘得极其负面。

But everything I've heard, I have some Hollywood folks I know, and They're both portrayed insanely negative, both Zuckerberg and Altman.

Speaker 1

所以我不知道结果会怎样。

So I don't know how this ends up.

Speaker 1

顺便说一句,还有一部关于埃隆·马斯克的纪录片,大概四个小时长,马上就要上映了。

And by the way, there's also an Elon Musk documentary, which is like four hours long, coming out imminently.

Speaker 1

而且他显然也有自己的AI服务。

And so he has his own AI service obviously as well.

Speaker 0

达里奥的电影什么时候上映?

When's the Dario movie coming out?

Speaker 0

好奇的人想知道。

Inquiring minds want to know.

Speaker 1

我们需要一部关于Anthropic的电影。

We need the Anthropic movie.

Speaker 0

顺便说一句,那一定会有的。

That will happen, by the way.

Speaker 0

我觉得你提到了SNF那件事。

I think you noted the SNF thing.

Speaker 1

百分之百。

100%.

Speaker 0

那一定会发生的。

That will happen.

Speaker 1

到时候会有关于有效利他主义的电影,还有毛绒玩具之类的。

There's going to be the Effective Altruism, the movie, and stuffed animals and things.

Speaker 1

但是——

But-

Speaker 0

EA:舞台剧版。

EA: the theater production.

Speaker 1

对,那会很有意思……

But yeah, that will be an interesting...

Speaker 1

在你们提到的信任问题背景下,这些电影引发的反应会非常值得关注,尤其是在推动这些智能体被采纳的过程中。

The reaction to those movies will be fascinating in the face of trying to get these adoption of these agents for the trust reasons that you're talking about.

Speaker 1

我们虽然是在开玩笑,但这确实会影响公众对这些东西的看法。

We joke about it, but that will have some impact on how these things are perceived in public.

Speaker 1

谁会愿意注册Meta那个控制你生活的智能体,谁会愿意注册OpenAI的版本,又有谁敢信任Anthropic那个整天说世界末日的版本呢?

And who wants to sign up for the Meta version of an agent that controls your life, versus who wants to sign up for the OpenAI version, versus should anyone trust the Anthropic version with all the stuff that they're saying about the end of the world?

Speaker 1

谁敢信任马斯克的那个版本?

Should anyone dare trust the Elon Musk version of this?

Speaker 1

我们是回到微软,因为我们应该信任他们,还是选择我们的老朋友谷歌?

Do we default back to Microsoft, because we should trust them, or do we go with our old friend Google?

Speaker 1

我知道你接下来想聊这个。

Which I know you want to talk about in a second.

Speaker 1

所以,是的。

And so, yeah.

Speaker 1

不过,回到你最初的问题,就是哪些会成为关键因素。

To go back to your initial question, though, of what ends up being the key things.

Speaker 1

我确实认为这里存在先发优势,这显然对初创公司不利。

So I do think that there's a first-mover advantage here for sure, which obviously hurts the would-be startups.

Speaker 1

有Instinct,还有一个叫Towns的,还有其他几个玩家……

There's Instinct, there's another one called Towns, there's a few other players that are...

Speaker 1

我觉得很快还会有更多推出。

I think there's a bunch more that are going to launch pretty soon.

Speaker 1

所以他们不幸地很难像我们提到的其他玩家那样快速达到规模,仅仅是因为已有的用户基础。

And so they're unfortunately going to have a hard time sort of reaching scale as quickly as some of the other players that we're mentioning, simply because of obviously the baked-in user install base.

Speaker 1

但这里也有理由支持一个纯粹的代理服务。

But there is an argument to be made for a pure-play agentic service here.

Speaker 1

再说回那个瑞士策略,你就能避开这些公司之间的内斗。

And again, the Switzerland argument, you stay away from all the infighting between these companies.

Speaker 1

也许那里有突破口。

Maybe there's an inroads there.

Speaker 1

但我确实认为最终会是那些大玩家之一,而且这也是因为你之前提到的那个原因,就是整合在这里太关键了。

But I do think it's probably going to be one of the big players, and I do think it's for, ultimately, also the reason that you hit on earlier, which is that the integrations are so key here.

Speaker 1

你需要邮件整合,日历整合,消息整合。

You need the integrations to mail, you need the integrations to calendar, you need the integrations to messaging.

Speaker 1

哪个玩家能把这些都做好,而且重要的是,不被封锁,保持完整,我觉得这将是决定最终结果的关键。

And which one of those players can nail all of that and keep them all intact, importantly, without being blocked and everything, I think will be critical in terms of how this ends up playing out.

Speaker 0

关于那部电影,我只想说,萨姆·奥尔特曼这周上了CNBC,他们问了他这个问题。

On the movies, I just want to say, Sam Altman was on CNBC this past week, and they asked him about it.

Speaker 0

凯特·鲁尼,她那次采访做得很好,问了他这个问题。

Kate Rooney, who did a great job with that interview, asked him about it.

Speaker 0

他说:‘嗯,看起来像部烂片。’

And he goes, "Well, it looks like a terrible movie."

Speaker 0

这回应真是太搞笑了。

It's just the funniest response.

Speaker 0

所以我没法——

So I can't-

Speaker 1

他今天还登上了《名利场》封面,配了张超大的——

He is also on the cover of Vanity Fair with some huge-

Speaker 0

没错。

That's right

Speaker 1

……专访,我觉得这跟那部电影要上映肯定不是巧合。

... profile today, which I do not think is an accident in face of this movie that's coming out.

Speaker 0

哦。

Oh.

Speaker 0

对,可能那边确实有公关上的协调安排。

Yeah, there might be some coordination and PR effort on that front.

Speaker 0

我觉得他在那次采访里说了些有意思的话,或者可能是政治采访里,他说……等等,他说什么来着?

He did say something interesting in that interview, I think, or this was maybe the political interview, where he was like, he's... Wait, what did he say?

Speaker 0

他说他和Anthropic的人——他们……

He said that him and Anthop- They...

Speaker 0

OpenAI和Anthropic在AI监管上有根本不同的世界观,而且AI带来的好处值得冒一些风险。

That OpenAI and Anthropic have fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, and that the AI benefits justify accepting some risks.

Speaker 0

他因为这个被骂惨了。

He's getting killed for that.

Speaker 1

然后就没有下文了。

And then there's no follow-up.

Speaker 1

这里说的风险到底是什么?

What risks are we talking about here?

Speaker 0

我觉得,是的,重要的是……让我们试着模仿他一下。

I think it's, yeah, it's important to... Let's see if we could channel him a little bit.

Speaker 0

我想他可能会说,科学和数学领域会有这些突破。

I think what he would probably say is that there's going to be these sort of breakthroughs that will happen in the sciences and maths.

Speaker 0

我们已经看到了数学上的突破,比如OpenAI的纳维-斯托克斯方程,而且可能还会有更多,这会帮助我们更好地理解宇宙,活得更久,更高效,减少对工作的依赖,这是一个大问号。

We've already seen the math breakthrough, well, Navier–Stokes from OpenAI, and probably more on the way, and that will help us understand the universe a little bit better, live longer, be more productive, be less tied to work, which is a big question mark.

Speaker 0

风险嘛,我也不知道,可能是网络安全吧。

And the risks are, I don't know, cybersecurity probably.

Speaker 0

还有什么别的呢?

And what else would it be?

Speaker 0

我不清楚。

I don't know.

Speaker 0

你觉得他心里想的就是这种成本收益的权衡,还是有别的考虑?

Do you think that's the cost benefit that he's thinking through in his head, or is there something else?

Speaker 1

是的。

Yes.

Speaker 1

我看到了同样的引述,也有类似的反应。

I saw the same quotes, and had the sort of the same reaction.

Speaker 1

我觉得得给他点肯定,我不认为他是在说世界末日是坏处——

I feel like to give him some credit, I don't think that he's suggesting that the end of the world is the downside-

Speaker 0

哦,对。

Oh, yeah

Speaker 1

……这种情况。

... scenario here.

Speaker 0

不,看起来不像。

No, that doesn't seem like it.

Speaker 1

我觉得他是在说他想保持现实。

I think that he is saying that he's trying to be realistic.

Speaker 1

你可以争论这种回应是否明智,但我确实觉得他是在试图保持现实,承认确实会有负面影响。

And you could argue whether or not that's smart in that type of response, but I do feel like he's trying to be realistic in suggesting that yes, there are going to be downsides.

Speaker 1

他以前也说过这个,对吧?

He's talked about it before, right?

Speaker 1

说过很多次。

A lot.

Speaker 1

显然,工作岗位会减少,学校也会受到影响,生活的各个方面都会受到这种影响,而且不全是正面的。

That obviously job displacements on down, and sort of school displacement, all different sorts of parts of life are going to be impacted by this in ways that are not universally positive.

Speaker 1

所以如果他说不是这样,那显然就是在骗人。

And so to suggest otherwise is obviously going to be disingenuous.

Speaker 1

但你要是说得这么含糊,那又会继续造成现在围绕AI的各种沟通问题。

But when you leave it that vague, it's going to, again, just lead to the continued messaging problem around everything that's been going on with AI.

Speaker 0

好了,M.G.,这个问题我得问问你。

All right, M.G., I got to ask you on this one.

Speaker 0

Anthropic在这里扮演什么角色?

Where is Anthropic here?

Speaker 0

他们实际上就是……

They were effectively the...

Speaker 0

他们引领了这个时刻。

They led this moment.

Speaker 1

问得好。

It's a good question.

Speaker 0

他们推出了Claude Code和Cowork,这些最初就是“让我把控制权交给AI,看看会发生什么”的工具,而且——

They had Claude Code and Cowork, which were the initial, "Let me give control to an AI and see what happens," and-

Speaker 0

人们很快就接受了这些工具,他们因此成了全球最热门的AI公司,因为他们打造了这些工具。

... people took to it, and they became the world's hottest AI company, because they built those tools.

Speaker 0

现在也许他们决定不想在这个领域玩了,或者他们跟我们节目上的观点不太一样,认为这不会成为一个受欢迎的产品类别。

And now maybe they've decided that this is not a place they want to play in, or they've decided, sort of in disagreement with us on this show, that this is not going to be a popular product category.

Speaker 0

你觉得他们是怎么想的,为什么在这里缺席?

What do you think their perspective is and why they're absent here?

Speaker 0

还是说他们其实有参与?

Or are they?

Speaker 1

这个问题问得好,原因正如你所说的。

It's a good question for all the reasons that you note.

Speaker 1

这也是我一直在心里琢磨的事情。

It's something I've been thinking about in the back of my head as well.

Speaker 1

除了提到他们之外,我并没有专门写过,因为他们在这里没有直接的布局。

And I haven't explicitly written about it other than to mention them, that they don't have a straightforward play here.

Speaker 1

可能很简单,他们认为Claude Code,尤其是Claude Cowork,随着时间推移增加更多功能后,会自然演变成这个方向。

It might be as simple as they view that basically Claude Code and more specifically Claude Cowork, I guess, will evolve into this as they add more features over time.

Speaker 1

但你说得对,他们确实是编程运动中的先行者。

But you're right, they were the first mover with the coding movement.

Speaker 1

不过,你也可以说,其实之前也有人给他们展示过一些类似的东西。

Now, you could say that there were others who actually showcased it a little bit to them.

Speaker 1

但他们显然进场了,而且正如我们之前聊到的,这让他们公司达到了现在的高度。之后,Cowork、OpenAI,其他所有人也都觉得他们必须对此有所回应。

But they obviously came in, and that's what we were talking about, has risen the company to the levels that they're at right now, and then Cowork, OpenAI, everyone else felt like they had to have an answer for that.

Speaker 1

那他们在这里又是什么情况呢?

And so where are they here?

Speaker 1

对我来说,这又回到了我之前想到的一点,那时候他们在这个领域还算是弱势方。那就是,尽管他们雇了像迈克·克里格这样的人,但他们一直避免过于面向消费者,总是更注重工作和生产力之类的。

To me, it goes back to what I thought about before when they were still very much the underdog in the space, which is that despite hiring people like Mike Krieger, they've always shied away from being more consumer-oriented and always wanted to be more about work and productivity and whatnot.

Speaker 1

所以我觉得他们的回应可能会是:‘听着,我们想做的是帮助我们的用户提高生产力,但我们不一定打算覆盖所有消费者用例。’

And so I feel like their answer to that would probably be like, "Look, we want to do whatever helps our user base be more productive, but we're not necessarily looking to do all of the consumer use cases."

Speaker 1

别忘了,他们到现在连一个图像生成产品都没有。

Remember, they still don't even have an image generator product.

Speaker 1

他们的语音功能也很有限。

They have minimal voice capabilities.

Speaker 1

我确实认为他们得在这方面加强,因为随着时间推移,语音会成为你与这些服务交互的一个更关键的核心部分。

I do think that they'll have to ramp that up more, I think because voice will become a more key integral point of how you interact with these services over time.

Speaker 1

但再说一次,他们还没有推出图像产品。

But again, they haven't done an image product.

Speaker 1

他们也没有视频产品。

They haven't done a video product.

Speaker 1

从某种程度上说,回头看看,你可以说这是明智的,对吧?

And in some ways, looking back, you could say that was smart, right?

Speaker 1

他们没有像OpenAI那样被这些事情分散注意力。

They weren't distracted by those things that perhaps OpenAI was.

Speaker 1

但我也觉得,图像产品在某个时候可能也是基本配置,对吧?

But I also think an image product is probably table stakes at some point too, right?

Speaker 1

因为你在做演示文稿。

Because you're making a presentation.

Speaker 1

你会用另一个服务的图像生成模型来配合它生成的演示文稿吗?

Are you going to use another service's image-generating model to go along with the presentation that it's making?

Speaker 1

有些事情他们必须做,而且我确实觉得最终他们会被迫更多地涉足这个领域,即使他们认为这更像是面向消费者的个人AI助手模式。

There's stuff that they will have to do, and I do feel like that eventually they will be probably dragged into this more, even if they view it more consumer-facing personal AI assistant mode.

Speaker 1

不过,我想他们会说:“看,我们打算从专业AI助手开始,而且我们已经通过Claude Code做了很多工作,在Cowork方面已经有不少积累了。”

I would imagine, though, they'll say, "Look, we're going to start with the professional AI assistants, and we already have a lot of that with Cowork, thanks to all the work that we've done with Claude Code.

Speaker 1

“所以我们会慢慢发展到那一步,然后逐渐转型。”

And so we'll get to that down the road, and we'll morph into that."

Speaker 1

他们确实做了一个有意思的举动,你可能看到了,我想就是上周的事,他们把Claude和Cowork的输入框合并了。

They did do an interesting thing, which you probably saw, I think it was just last week, which is that they merged the Claude and Cowork text box.

Speaker 1

所以不再是两个不同的标签页来回切换,这一点连OpenAI都还没做到。

So they're no longer the two different tabs that you click between, which even OpenAI has not done yet.

Speaker 1

所以我觉得他们正在朝着那个领域的终极目标迈进,也就是一个统一的聊天框,什么都能处理。

And so I feel like they're moving towards the holy grail of that space, which is the unified single chat box for anything.

Speaker 1

而且我觉得Dots在某些方面也可能指向这个方向。

And I do feel like Dots, in some ways, might be pointing at this as well.

Speaker 1

比如,Dots最终会不会成为ChatGPT的全面前端,它在后台利用自己的技术来判断你问的是个人问题还是工作问题,然后自动帮你路由到相应的处理?

Like is Dots actually going to be the eventual total front end of ChatGPT, and it uses its stuff behind the scenes to basically determine what you're asking for, whether it's a personal question or a work-oriented question, and routes it behind the scenes for you?

Speaker 0

对,我能理解。

Yeah, I can see it.

Speaker 0

Dots 的一个好处是,你可以不断往里面扔东西,它会在后台帮你排序、处理,然后替你执行。

One of the nice things about Dots is you can continue to throw stuff at it, and then it will basically prioritize and work behind the scenes and then execute for you.

Speaker 0

那好吧。

So, all right.

Speaker 0

我们在节目里其实已经聊了不少这个话题了。

We've kind of danced around it through the show.

Speaker 0

我想说说我的看法,我觉得谁会赢下这场竞争,还有我心中的黑马,我也很好奇你那边有没有什么答案。

I will give you my perspective on who I think will win this battle and my dark horse, and I'd be curious if you have an answer on your end.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 0

我觉得 OpenAI 会赢。

I think OpenAI is going to win.

Speaker 0

我就是觉得他们已经证明了他们有做产品的能力。

I just think they have shown that they have the product chops.

Speaker 0

他们有 12 亿用户,所以他们不像 Instinct 那样,要拼命抵挡 Meta 那种极其激进的推广攻势。

They have 1.2 billion users, so it's not like they're in instinct where they're trying to fend off Meta's incredibly aggressive distribution attempt.

Speaker 0

Meta不仅在WhatsApp和Instagram这些自家产品里推这个,还在NFL橄榄球赛期间打广告。

Meta's not only pushing this in its own products like WhatsApp and Instagram, but it's got ads during NFL football.

Speaker 0

我在地铁里,看到的全是Muse。

I'm in the subway, all I see is Muse.

Speaker 0

所以我觉得OpenAI确实有那12亿用户,这些人是为了用AI来的,更习惯用它的产品,而且我认为Dots会脱颖而出。

So I think OpenAI does have that 1.2 billion users, people who are there to use AI, people who are more comfortable to use its products, and I think Dots is going to be the one that comes out on top.

Speaker 0

当然,我的黑马,要是我们之间不提苹果,那就不算数了。

And my dark horse here, of course, wouldn't be a show between us without bringing up Apple.

Speaker 0

我觉得苹果,从一开始就能接触到设备,而且已经表现出对AI产品更积极的兴趣,是能实现这一点的黑马,哪怕它可能是最后一个。

I think Apple, which will have device access from the get-go and has shown an interest in being more aggressive on AI products, is the dark horse to pull this off, even if it might be last.

Speaker 0

你怎么看?

What do you think?

Speaker 1

我觉得我听起来会像《侏罗纪公园》里的那个场景,我就是那个为吸血律师辩护的人。

I feel like I'm going to sound like that one scene in "Jurassic Park" where I'm the one defending the blood-sucking lawyer here.

Speaker 1

就像我在为Meta辩护一样。

Where it's like I'm the one defending Meta.

Speaker 0

你这是在挺Meta啊。

You're going Meta.

Speaker 1

真没想到我居然在替Meta说话。

Can't believe I'm the one defending Meta.

Speaker 1

但我觉得还有一个我们还没怎么提到的点,挺有意思的,就是Meta做这一切,背后甚至没有一个他们自己认为的顶尖模型在支撑,对吧?

But I feel like one other element that we haven't really even hit on, which is interesting, is that Meta is doing all of this without what they even consider to be a frontier model behind the scenes powering this, right?

Speaker 1

显然,Muse Spark,我记得现在是1.3,可能快1.4了。

Obviously, Muse Spark, I think it's 1.3 now, might be 1.4.

Speaker 1

我觉得1.3就挺好的。

I think it's 1.3, is good.

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而且现在就是它在驱动这一切,驱动Muse。

And it is powering this right now, powering Muse right now.

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但他们说随时都可能推出那个所谓的“西瓜”,就是他们真正的重磅、顶尖版本的Spark模型,或者抱歉,是他们的Muse模型,Spark只是其中一个变体,很快就要来了。

But they say any day now that, quote-unquote, "Watermelon," their actual big time, big frontier version of their Spark models, or sorry, their Muse models, Spark is one variant of it, is coming soon.

Speaker 1

所以一旦那个来了,会有什么变化呢?

And so when that happens, what does that change?

Speaker 1

这会改变什么吗?

Does that change anything?

Speaker 1

按理说,它会好很多,做某些任务时功能也会强很多,但也许他们构建Muse的方式就是让它即使在不那么顶尖的模型上也能运行得很好。

Presumably, it will be much better, much more functional at doing certain tasks, but maybe they built Muse in such a way that it is fine just running on not really good, but not quite frontier.

Speaker 1

也许你并不需要它来处理所有这些代理任务。

And maybe you don't need it for all of these agentic tasks.

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也许我们正在进入一个世界,在那里,绝对前沿的模型对科学、对所有这些真正困难的发现和大数据处理至关重要。

And maybe we're starting to break into a world where the absolute frontier matters for science and for all of these really hard discovery and big data stuff.

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但日常操作可以依赖这些模型,当然,大家最关心的是它们运行成本更低,提供起来也更便宜。

But the day-to-day operations can fall back to these models, which, of course, on top of everyone's mind is that they can run cheaper, they can be offered cheaper.

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所以我们就是在这样的世界里运作的。

And so that's the world in which we're playing.

Speaker 1

但再说一次,我想指出的是,Meta在没有绝对前沿模型的情况下做到了这一点,而显然OpenAI现在有,Anthropic,正如我们讨论过的,目前没有参与这个领域,但它有那样的模型。

But again, I just want to put that out there that Meta has been able to do this without having the absolute frontier model, whereas obviously OpenAI does right now And Anthropic, as we talked about, is not playing in the space right now, but has that model.

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所以我很好奇,当他们推出Watermelon时,会有什么变化,如果有的话。

And so I'm curious to see what, if anything, changes when they launch Watermelon.

Speaker 1

他们会不会给Muse推出一些新功能,让人眼前一亮?

Do they launch with new functionality for Muse that just blows people's minds?

Speaker 1

也许不会。

Maybe not.

Speaker 1

也许不会。

Maybe it's not.

Speaker 0

那是Meta即将推出的大模型,我们正在……

That's Meta's big upcoming model that we're-

Speaker 0

……等待它。

... waiting for.

Speaker 1

然后你提到了苹果。

And then you bring up Apple.

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所以,我在WWDC之后写了一篇文章,当时他们正式发布了新的Siri AI,至少是揭晓了,现在它已经面世了。

So again, I wrote a post right after WWDC, after they launched the new Siri AI officially, at least unveiled it, and now it's out there in the world.

Speaker 1

我仍然觉得那篇文章的观点站得住脚,就是说苹果可能会在AI领域胜出,而且很可能会默认胜出,因为,再说一次,它已经内置在数十亿台设备中了。

I still feel like that post holds up, where it's like Apple could win, and probably will win, AI by default, just because, again, it's baked into billions of devices automatically.

Speaker 1

我确实觉得有一个很有意思的点,我在那篇文章里稍微提到过,而且我知道其他重要的苹果观察者,比如约翰·格鲁伯他们,最近也在聊这个,那就是Siri AI最大的问题,杰森·斯内尔我知道也聊过一点,就是你总是忘了它现在其实很好用,所以你就忘了去用它,对吧?

I do think that there's an interesting element, which I think I hit upon a little bit back in that piece, and I know that other key Apple watchers, like John Gruber and others, have been talking about more recently, which is that the biggest problem with Siri AI, and Jason Snell I know has talked about this a bit, too, is that you just forget that it's actually good now, and so you forget to use it, right?

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即使它就在你的手机里,就在那儿。

Even though it's baked into your phone, it's like it's right there.

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每个人都有。

Everyone has it.

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你不需要下载新应用,但你还是在打开ChatGPT,打开Claude,去问那些你完全可以用内置版Siri轻松搞定的事情,你就是忘了现在可以信任它了。

You don't need to download a new app, but you're still opening up ChatGPT and opening up Claude for queries that you could easily do in this baked-in version of Siri, and you just forget that you can trust it now.

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所以从某种程度上说,它和Meta那边的情况正好相反,对吧?

And so in some ways, it has the opposite trust of what we were talking about with Meta, right?

Speaker 1

就是苹果这边,你不信任Siri能正常工作,因为它十多年来一直不好用,现在它确实好用了,这当然是好事,但现在这仍然是个问题,因为他们以另一种奇怪的方式存在信任赤字。

It's just with Apple, you don't trust that Siri's going to work because it hasn't for over a decade, and now the fact that it does is good, obviously, but it's still a problem now because they have that trust deficit in another weird way.

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所以我确实认为时间会缓解这个问题,尤其是当他们发布新设备的时候。

And so I do think time will alleviate that, and especially as they release new devices.

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有传言说他们会推出第一款家庭设备,可能会很大程度上围绕Siri AI来打造。

The rumors are that they're going to have their first home device that could be largely predicated around Siri AI.

Speaker 1

听起来他们正在加紧推出新的HomePod,我觉得这确实能解决很多问题。

It sounds like they're working on getting new HomePods out there imminently, and so I do feel like that will help a lot of these problems.

Speaker 1

你说得对。

But you're right.

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苹果最大的优势,别人都没有的,就是他们这些设备。

The key thing that Apple has, which no one else has, is, again, they're on these devices.

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他们天生就内置了对邮件、短信、日历、照片的支持,对吧?

They have inherently baked in support for mail, messaging, your calendar, your pictures, right?

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他们能看到你屏幕上的所有内容。

They see everything on your screen.

Speaker 1

没错。

Exactly.

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就在设备上。

It's on the device.

Speaker 1

你可以说:“嘿,Siri,我现在在看什么?”

You can say, "Hey, Siri, what am I looking at right now?"

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其他服务做不到这一点,除非你费尽心思去同意所有这些提示,而正如你之前提到的,苹果正打算在未来进一步限制这一点,至少在Mac上是这样。

You can't do that with the other services, unless you move heaven and earth to basically agree to all of these prompts, which, as I think you alluded to earlier, Apple is moving to potentially lock that down more, at least on the Mac, in the future.

Speaker 1

他们还没有明确说明具体要做什么,但显然会设置更多警告,即使是Mac——历史上一直对用户开放,你想怎么折腾都行——现在也可能出现这样的提示,比如“嘿,也许你不想让Meta访问你电脑上的所有信息。”

They haven't exactly explicitly stated what they're going to do, but they're clearly going to put up more warnings that even the Mac, which historically has been open to whatever you as a user want to do to it, will potentially now be getting these prompts like, "Hey, maybe you don't want to give Meta access to all of the information on your machine."

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我在想,如果他们直接说“也许你不想给Meta这么多权限,或者给马克·扎克伯格”,会不会更有效。

I wonder if it'd be more effective if they would've said maybe you don't want to give Meta all this access, or Mark Zuckerberg.

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我觉得也许——

I feel like maybe-

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……再说吧,等电影上映后看看。

... again, after the movie, we'll see.

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你看过那部电影了吗?

Did you see the movie?

Speaker 0

你说什么?

Did you what?

Speaker 1

你知道这个人想要什么。

You know what this person wants.

Speaker 0

现在在Apple TV+上免费观看。

Now free on Apple TV+.

Speaker 1

没错。

Exactly.

Speaker 1

这简直就是个大型流媒体广告。

It's just a giant ad for streaming.

Speaker 0

得问问你,你买了Fold吗?

Got to ask, do you have the Fold?

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你买了Fold还是Duo?

Did you buy the Fold, the Duo?

Speaker 1

我还没买。

I have not.

Speaker 1

周五开始预售。

It's up for pre-order on Friday.

Speaker 0

哦,好的。

Oh, okay.

Speaker 1

所以我还没有拿到。

So I don't have it just yet.

Speaker 0

太早了。

Too early.

Speaker 1

我会预购的。

I will pre-order it.

Speaker 1

到时候我会拿到,我觉得大概一周后吧。

I will get it then, I think it's a week later.

Speaker 1

所以我忍不住买了一台18 Pro,就为了有个东西——

So I broke down and bought an 18 Pro just to have something-

Speaker 0

好的

Okay

Speaker 1

……在我等待的时候用。

... while I wait.

Speaker 0

好吧。

All right.

Speaker 0

我们会在十一月的节目里给你做评测。

We'll get your review in our November show.

Speaker 1

好的。

Okay.

Speaker 0

好,那我们休息一下,回来再聊这个我一直期待的话题。我其实一直憋着没问,为什么谷歌没有加入这场竞争?

Okay, so let's take a break and come back and talk about this whole conversation I've been looking forward to, but I've kind of been chomping at the bit and barely holding back from asking you why has Google not gotten into this battle?

Speaker 0

那我们回来之后再说这个,广告之后见。

So let's do that when we come back right after this.

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本期节目由AvePoint赞助播出。

This episode is brought to you by AvePoint.

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现在大家都在急着推出AI。

Everyone's racing to roll out AI right now.

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副驾驶、聊天机器人、还有干实事的智能体。

Copilots, chatbots, agents doing real work.

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但有个部分没人爱提。

But here's the part nobody loves talking about.

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所有这些AI都运行在你的数据上,而大多数团队没有统一的方法来查看、保护并证明这些数据处于可控状态。

All that AI runs on your data, and most teams have no single way to see it, secure it, and prove it's under control.

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这正是AvePoint所做的。

That's exactly what AvePoint does.

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25年来,他们一直是全球要求最严苛的数据背后的可信层,现在已扩展到你的整个AI资产。

For 25 years, they've been the trusted layer beneath the world's most demanding data, now extended across your entire AI estate.

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你的数据、你的云,以及代表你行动的智能体。

Your data, your cloud, and the agents acting on your behalf.

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这就是超过28,000家组织能够自信部署AI的方式,让创新规模化而不扩大风险。

It's how more than 28,000 organizations deploy AI with confidence, so innovation scales without scaling risk.

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AvePoint,AI的统一信任层。

AvePoint, the unifying trust layer for AI.

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访问avepoint.com,了解企业如何自信部署AI。

Head to avepoint.com to see how enterprises deploy AI with confidence.

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更多信息,请访问avpt.co/bigtechnologypodcast。

Learn more at avpt.co/bigtechnologypodcast.

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网址是 avpt.co/bigtechnologypodcast。

That's avpt.co/bigtechnologypodcast.

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你知道衣柜里那些你总是不停穿的衣服吗?

You know those pieces in your closet that you find yourself wearing on repeat?

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那件百搭的毛衣、那条完美的裤子,或者那件你总是第一个拿起的T恤。

The sweater that goes with everything, the perfect pair of pants, or the tee you somehow always reach for first.

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这些衣服让穿衣变得简单,而这正是 Quince 最擅长的。

Those are the pieces that make getting dressed easy, and that's what Quince does best.

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Quince 专注于高品质的基础款服饰,采用优质材料,比如100%蒙古羊绒、有机棉和美利奴羊毛。

Quince focuses on high-quality wardrobe staples made with premium materials like 100% Mongolian cashmere, organic cotton, and Merino wool.

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这些款式经典、百搭,设计初衷就是成为你日复一日依赖的可靠单品。

The styles are timeless, versatile, and designed to become the dependable pieces you reach for day after day.

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我有点迷上我的 Quince 黑色拉链卫衣了。

I am kind of obsessed with my black zip-down sweatshirt from Quince.

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它非常适合坐飞机和逛商场的时候穿。

It's great for planes and malls.

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天热的时候,我很容易把它系在腰上,然后风一吹,就又穿回去了。

It's easy to tie around my waist whenever it's warm out, and then when the breeze comes in, back on it goes.

Speaker 0

在Quince找到你秋季的新宠吧。

Find your next fall favorites at Quince.

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下载Quince应用,享受应用专属优惠,或者访问quince.com/bigtech。

Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to quince.com/bigtech.

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订单免运费,还有365天退货服务。

Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.

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现在加拿大和英国也有售了。

Now available in Canada and the UK, too.

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网址是Q-U-I-N-C-E.com/bigtech。

That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com/bigtech.

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嗨,我是Rick Ruback。

Hi, I'm Rick Ruback.

Speaker 3

我是Royce Yudkoff。

And I'm Royce Yudkoff.

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我们是哈佛商学院的教授,也是热门播客《Think Big, Buy Small》的联合主持人。

We're professors at Harvard Business School and co-hosts of the chart-topping podcast, Think Big, Buy Small.

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如果你想成为企业家,从零开始创业并不是唯一的选择。

If you want to become an entrepreneur, starting a company from scratch isn't your only option.

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你可以收购一家成熟且盈利的小企业,以CEO的身份加入,并在现有基础上继续发展。

You can buy an established, profitable small business, step in as CEO, and build on what already works.

Speaker 2

这条路被称为收购型创业,我们花了超过15年时间帮助哈佛商学院的学生探索这一路径。

This path is known as acquisition entrepreneurship, and we've spent over 15 years helping Harvard Business School students explore it.

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在《Think Big, Buy Small》的新一季中,我们通过与企业家、投资者和行业专家的坦诚对话,将这些经验分享给你。

On the new season of Think Big, Buy Small, we bring those lessons to you through candid conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts.

Speaker 2

我们一起探讨旅程的每个阶段,从寻找和融资合适的业务,到完成交易、领导公司,再到最终出售。

Together, we explore every stage of the journey, from finding and financing the right business, to closing the deal, leading the company, and eventually selling it.

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无论你是积极考虑拥有企业,还是只是对创业的另一条路径感到好奇,《Think Big, Buy Small》都能帮你迈出第一步。

Whether you're actively considering business ownership or simply curious about a different route to entrepreneurship, Think Big, Buy Small can help you take the first step.

Speaker 3

在Apple Podcasts、Spotify或任何你收听播客的平台上关注《Think Big, Buy Small》。

Follow Think Big, Buy Small on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts

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欢迎回到《大科技》播客,今天我们请到了Spyglass的M.G. Siegler。

And we're back here on "Big Technology" podcast with M.G. Siegler of Spyglass.

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你可以在spyglass.org找到Spyglass。

You can find Spyglass at spyglass.org.

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强烈推荐你订阅他们的通讯,那是我最喜欢的之一。

Highly recommend you sign up for the newsletter, one of my favorites.

Speaker 0

好了,M.G.,我们来聊聊谷歌吧,怎么样?

All right, M.G., so let's talk a little bit about Google, shall we?

Speaker 1

好,开始吧。

Let's do it.

Speaker 0

谷歌在这些产品发布上似乎总是慢半拍,这次也不例外。

Google always seems to be a little bit far behind on these product releases, and that is also the case here.

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他们有个叫Spark的AI助手,但显然和其他家的不在一个讨论层面上。

They have this AI assistant called Spark, but certainly not in the conversation with the others.

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就像我们在前半段提到的,因为时间不多了,他们还有Gmail、日历和Talent。

And like we mentioned in the first half, or in the beginning, because we only have a couple more minutes left, they have Gmail, they have Calendar, they have Talent.

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他们没有Muse,没有Dots,也没有Instinct。

They don't have a Muse, they don't have a Dots, they don't have an Instinct.

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这到底是怎么回事?

What is going on there?

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现在我要再提一部电影《摇摆者》,你还记得那个场景吗?就是“你是熊。”

And now I'll do another movie callback of "Swingers," if you remember the scene where it's like, "You're the bear.

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你是熊,你有这些爪子,你拥有一切。

You're the bear and you got these claws, and you got everything.

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你只需要用这些爪子,兄弟。”

You just got to use these claws, man."

Speaker 1

那就是谷歌。

That is Google.

Speaker 0

它就是那只熊。

It's the bear.

Speaker 0

不过没有爪子。

No claws, though.

Speaker 0

怎么回事?

What's going on?

Speaker 1

对,它们被拔了牙。

Yeah, they're defanged.

Speaker 1

问题是,而且我像往常一样先声明一下,我在那里工作了十多年,但到现在已经好几年没去了,而且我也不是专门为公司做AI的。

The problem is, and again, I should disclose like I normally do, I worked there for over a decade, but I haven't been there in a couple of years at this point, and nor did I work on AI specifically for the company.

Speaker 1

所以除了我读到的和思考的,我并没有真正的内部消息,而这些就是我们过去几年一直在聊的。

So I don't have any real insider insight into this beyond everything that I read and think about, and that is what we've talked about over the past couple of years.

Speaker 1

他们落后了。

They were behind.

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感觉他们费了九牛二虎之力想追上来,我觉得他们确实追了一段时间。

They moved heaven and earth, it felt like, to sort of catch back up, and I think that they did that for a little bit.

Speaker 1

然后你看,好像又落后了,接着AI那边,或者说DeepMind那边,公司又进行了大调整。

And then lo and behold, it seemingly fell behind again, and then you had the new shakeup of the company on the AI side, or the DeepMind side.

Speaker 1

这些都有关系吗?

And is this all related?

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我觉得,从某种程度上说,确实有一些方面是有关联的。

I mean, to some extent, for sure, there are elements of it that are definitely related.

Speaker 1

在我看来,我也写过一篇文章,这正好说明,几个月前的I/O大会上,他们上台后其实没什么真正准备好的东西。

In my head, and I wrote a piece about it, it just goes to the idea that clearly, this past I/O a few months ago, they go out on stage and they just don't have anything really ready to go.

Speaker 1

他们有一些零零散散的小产品,也愿意谈论未来要推出的东西,但他们因为提前宣布这些产品而坑了自己,包括著名的3.5 Pro,他们即将推出的旗舰AI模型,结果一直没发布,现在看起来永远不会发布了。

They have some little products here and there, and they're willing to talk about these things that are coming in the future, but they sort of screwed themselves by pre-announcing these things, including famously 3.5 Pro, their forthcoming flagship AI model, which never came, and now seems like it's never going to come.

Speaker 1

我觉得他们现在其实已经承认了,因为他们已经发布了第一个版本的Gemini 4,用于安全测试等等。

I think they've actually acknowledged that now because they have their first version of Gemini 4 out in the wild for security testing and whatnot.

Speaker 1

所以我觉得,这部分可能也是因为他们在I/O大会上还提到了一款产品,也叫Spark,挺让人困惑的,但别和Meta的Spark搞混了,这是另一个AI Spark,叫Gemini Spark,是他们针对智能体和助手场景的版本,他们进行了beta测试,但范围非常有限。

And so I think that part of it was probably they also at I/O talked about a product which is also confusingly called Spark, but not to be confused with Meta's Spark, but it's another AI Spark, Gemini Spark, which is their version of agentic and assistant use cases, and they had it in beta testing, but it was very limited.

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我记得一开始好像只有Ultra级别的用户才能用。

It was only, I think, at the Ultra tier at one point.

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我觉得现在已经开放了。

I think it's come down.

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我试过。

I've tried it.

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我已经有一段时间能访问它了。

I've had access to it for a little while.

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它还行,但不是什么让人惊艳到掉下巴的AI。

It's fine, but it's not blow away, blow your socks off AI.

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它某些方面做得不错,因为就像你说的,他们跟Gmail、Google日历、还有Google搜索等等都有集成。

It does certain things well because, as you note, they have the integrations to Gmail, to Google Calendar, to everything else, to Google Search.

Speaker 1

他们本该是能做到的。

They should be the ones.

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他们手里有这些资源。

They have the claws.

Speaker 1

他们本该是能做到的,但就是抓不住时机。

They should be the ones to do this, and yet they cannot seemingly time it right.

Speaker 1

他们总是自己给自己使绊子。

They can't get out of their own way.

Speaker 1

我一直觉得谷歌在产品方面有问题,他们很多事情的实现方式都不太对劲。

I've always had problems with Google from a product perspective, the way that they implement a lot of things.

Speaker 1

当然,很难反驳那些拥有超过十亿用户的产品,但我还是会对其中很多产品提出质疑。

Obviously, it's hard to argue with multiple products that have over a billion users, but I would still argue with a lot of them.

Speaker 1

我觉得它们在功能和用户界面的直观性方面都可以做得更好,而且我认为在AI个人助手这个领域,这些在早期阶段非常关键。

I think that they could be a lot better, in terms of functionality and in terms of user interface, intuitiveness, and I feel like it's pretty key in these early days for a product like this in the AI personal assistant space.

Speaker 1

再说,Gemini Spark对我来说没什么吸引力。

And again, Gemini Spark, it's not doing much for me.

Speaker 1

我觉得对很多人来说也没什么吸引力,尤其是当你把它和Muse、现在的Dots、Instinct以及其他所有同类产品相比时。

I think it's not doing much for a lot of people, especially when you compare it to Muse, and now Dots, and Instinct, and everything else that's out there.

Speaker 0

对,你说得对。

Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 0

Muse从头像开始就充满了趣味和奇思妙想。

Muse is full of fun and whimsy from the avatar on down.

Speaker 0

Gemini Spark缺少那种……我在找什么词来着?

Gemini Spark lacks that, what's the word I'm looking for here?

Speaker 1

是的,有点直白,但就是那个意思。

Yes, it's a little on the nose, but it's right there.

Speaker 1

不过这就是谷歌的风格。

It's like that's Google, though.

Speaker 1

我还是得反复强调这一点。

Again, I'll keep reiterating it.

Speaker 1

他们手里有资源。

They have the claws.

Speaker 1

他们什么都不缺。

They have everything they need.

Speaker 1

他们肯定有人才。

They have the talent, for sure.

Speaker 1

收购DeepMind将会是史上最成功的收购之一,他们占尽了天时地利。

The DeepMind purchase will be one of the greatest acquisitions of all times, and they have everything that they needed to be in the right place, right time.

Speaker 1

即使他们落后了,感觉他们还是做对了所有事情,能够迎头赶上。

And even when they fell behind, it felt like they, again, did everything right to come back and catch up and be there.

Speaker 1

还记得我们之前讨论过,是不是已经结束了?

Remember we were having the discussion, is it over?

Speaker 1

谷歌是不是要一骑绝尘了?

Is Google going to run away with the game?

Speaker 1

然后突然之间,我们又回到了相反的讨论,就像——

And then all of a sudden, now we're having the opposite discussion again, and it's just like-

Speaker 0

感觉自从那次对话之后,他们什么都没做。

It's like they've done nothing since that conversation.

Speaker 1

就像《土拨鼠之日》一样。

It's like Groundhog Day.

Speaker 0

太疯狂了。

It's crazy.

Speaker 1

他们做这些事都有理由,而且现在他们甚至会在公开场合说一些,因为他们不得不这么做。

And they have reasons for all of it, and they'll say some of it externally even now because they sort of have to.

Speaker 1

我记得桑达尔说过,"是的,我们有点……"

I think Sundar said, "Yeah, we sort of..."

Speaker 1

我不知道他有没有说"在编程上掉链子了",但他确实说他们之前没有像应该做的那样专注于此。

I don't know if he said, "Dropped the ball on coding," but he said that they weren't focused on it as they should've been appropriately.

Speaker 1

所以那显然在一段时间内是个问题。

And then so that was obviously a problem for a while.

Speaker 1

然后呢,感觉又有了类似的想法。

And then again, it feels like there was a similar idea.

Speaker 1

他们就是有太多事情在同时进行。

They just have way too much going on.

Speaker 1

对我来说,问题总是归结到这一点。

This is what it always comes back to for me.

Speaker 1

他们就是人多手杂。

They have too many cooks in the kitchen.

Speaker 1

他们那里有太多人,都想做同一件事,但各有各的理由,又不想在同一个团队里合作。

They have way too many people that work there that all want to work on the same thing, but all for different reasons, don't want to work on the same team.

Speaker 1

所以这些人各有各的算盘,动机也互相冲突,但并不是说都是恶意的或者小心眼。

So they have all these conflicting cooks, all these conflicting motives, and it's not all nefarious or mean-spirited.

Speaker 1

我只是觉得他们有不同的团队。

I just feel like there's different teams.

Speaker 1

这是一家庞大的公司。

It's a massive company.

Speaker 1

谷歌云团队和安卓团队的激励不同,对吧,而谷歌搜索团队的激励又和他们都不一样。

The Google Cloud team has different incentives, right, than the Android team, and the Google Search team has a different incentive than all of them.

Speaker 1

所以很难让所有这些人都齐心协力,达成共识。

And so it's very hard to get all those people to work together to get on the same page.

Speaker 1

我虽然这么说,但我原本以为在谷歌大脑和DeepMind合并之后,我们已经解决了这个问题,那本该是个转折点,而且当时看起来也确实在起作用。

And I say all that, but I thought we were over that when we had the unification of Google Brain and DeepMind, and that that was going to be the time, and it felt like it was working.

Speaker 1

但突然之间,这些产品又冒出来了。我在那篇文章里提到过,有个叫CC的产品,听上去确实挺有意思的,对吧?

And then all of a sudden, though, these products creep up, and I talked about in that piece, there's a product called CC, which by all accounts sounds interesting, right?

Speaker 1

它是为家庭设计的。

It's meant for families.

Speaker 1

但当你有了那个产品——

But when you have that product-

Speaker 0

这是另一个助手。

It's another assistant

Speaker 1

……而且你正试图做一个面向家庭的助手,当你有那个产品,然后你又有Gemini Spark——

... and you're trying to be a family-based assistant, when you have that product and then you have Gemini Spark-

Speaker 0

你有CC,你有Spark,而且你还指出搜索最终可能会有AI模式。

You have CC, you have Spark, and you also point out Search might end up with AI mode.

Speaker 1

搜索也有自己的。

And Search has its own.

Speaker 1

对,所有内置的AI代理功能。

Right, all the AI agentic stuff built into it.

Speaker 1

如果你什么都有,人们就什么都不会用,因为他们不知道该用哪个来做这个。

If you have everything, people are going to use nothing because they don't know which one to go to for this.

Speaker 1

所以你可以为每一个都辩护说这是正确的决定,或者它们都是好产品,各有各的功能,但它们需要统一起来。

And so you can make an individual case that all these are the right calls, or they're nice products or they do this and they do that, but they need to get on the same page.

Speaker 1

而且再次,感觉他们当时正在这么做。

And again, it felt like they were doing that.

Speaker 1

你听到所有报道,谢尔盖·布林参与其中,他们真的在集中精力,但不知为何他们就是无法摆脱自己的问题。

You hear all the reports, Sergey Brin involved, that they're really honing in, and they just can't get out of their own way for whatever reason.

Speaker 0

我们聊到这儿的时候,我就在想,"好吧。"

And this is sort of the point where we have these conversations and I'm like, "Okay."

Speaker 0

我告诉自己,"记住,可能再过一个月,他们又会重回巅峰了,"毕竟事情一直都是这么发展的。

Just like, I'm telling myself, "Remember that it'll probably just be another month and they'll be on top again," the way that this stuff has been moving.

Speaker 1

这很可能没错,对吧?

That's probably true, right?

Speaker 1

他们最终会推出面向消费者的Gemini 4,然后大概会试着把它和……联系起来。

They'll have Gemini 4 out there for consumers eventually, and then they'll presumably probably try to tie that to...

Speaker 1

希望他们会重新命名,但Gemini Spark全面上线,然后他们会说,"嘿,你看到了用Muse和Dots能做的那些酷事。"

Hopefully they'll rebrand it, but the Gemini Spark full-on launch, and they'll go for it and say like, "Hey, you saw that cool stuff you could do with Muse and Dots.

Speaker 1

再看看你能用你已经在用的所有谷歌服务做什么。"

Well, look at what you could do with all the Google services that you already use."

Speaker 1

基本上就用这种方式来对抗。

And basically combat it that way.

Speaker 1

这可能会吸引人一阵子,但现在你又有了另一个。

And it will probably be compelling for a little bit, but then now you have another.

Speaker 1

我们又回到了信任这个话题。

We go back to the trust notion.

Speaker 1

你会不会担心,如果把自己的整个智能体生活和私人助理都交给谷歌,而他们六个月后又会落后?

You have the trust notion of should I put my entire agentic life and the personal assistant in Google's hands when they're just going to fall behind again in six months?

Speaker 0

我知道这是个老生常谈的话题,已经说了很久了。

And I know this is a sort of beaten-down trope that's been going on for a while.

Speaker 0

他们真的需要收购一家创意机构,然后在品牌宣传和产品命名上好好整合一下。

They need to just acquire a creative agency and then get this together in terms of their messaging and product names.

Speaker 0

因为我不明白为什么这个问题能持续这么久。

Because I don't understand how you have this problem persist for so long.

Speaker 0

真是让人匪夷所思。

It's mind-boggling.

Speaker 1

说到收购,也许可以回到我们最开始的话题——我预计会有人收购Instinct,有人可能会收购Townes的产品,还有人会收购其他这些产品。

And speaking of acquisitions, maybe to tie it all back into the beginning point is, I would expect that someone will acquire Instinct, someone will acquire maybe the Townes product, someone will acquire all these other things.

Speaker 1

基本上是因为他们会觉得,看,我们看到了Meta做了什么。

Basically because they'll feel like, "Look, we're seeing what Meta has done.

Speaker 1

我们也看到了OpenAI的成果。

We're seeing what OpenAI has done.

Speaker 1

我们得赶紧跟上。

We need to be in this fast."

Speaker 1

像微软,我们看看会怎么样。

Like Microsoft, we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 1

他们显然已经推出了自己的产品。

They obviously launched theirs.

Speaker 1

那亚马逊呢,对吧?

Where's Amazon, right?

Speaker 1

亚马逊的Alexa Plus已经推出有一阵子了。

Amazon has had Alexa Plus out there for a while now.

Speaker 1

他们在这个领域进展如何?

Where are they in this space?

Speaker 1

有传言说他们一直在幕后开发更智能的工作流程,用于这类应用场景。

There's been rumors that they have work behind the scenes on a more agentic workflows for this kind of use cases.

Speaker 1

那他们在这方面的进展如何?

And so where are they in this?

Speaker 1

那SpaceX呢?现在好像叫SpaceXSI了吧?

What does SpaceX, SpaceXSI now it's called, I guess?

Speaker 0

天哪。

Oh my goodness.

Speaker 0

别让我说这个。

Don't get me.

Speaker 0

我们还有一小时吗?

Do we have another hour?

Speaker 1

Spacexy。

Spacexy.

Speaker 0

Spacexy。

Spacexy.

Speaker 0

我的天哪。

Oh my God.

Speaker 1

他们把GrokBot弄到哪儿去了?

Where did they take GrokBot?

Speaker 1

因为GrokBot在外面挺受欢迎的,对吧?

Because GrokBot's gotten some love out there, right?

Speaker 0

我们都没提到GrokBot。

We didn't even mention GrokBot.

Speaker 1

我知道。

I know.

Speaker 0

它确实在做一些聪明的事情。

It's doing some smart things.

Speaker 1

我觉得他们在团队协作方面做了一些巧妙的事,其他一些公司也不得不应对这个。

I think they're doing some clever things with teams and some of the others are having to combat that.

Speaker 1

所以他们做得也不错。

And so they've done good work, too.

Speaker 1

对。

So yeah.

Speaker 1

这又是一场战斗。

It's yet another battle.

Speaker 0

网站是 spyglass.org。

The website's spyglass.org.

Speaker 0

M.G. Siegler 每个月第一个星期一都会来我们这里。

M.G. Siegler joins us on the first Monday of every month.

Speaker 0

M.G.,和你聊天总是很开心。

M.G., always great to speak with you.

Speaker 0

非常感谢你来做客。

Thanks so much for coming on.

Speaker 1

谢谢,Alex。

Thanks, Alex.

Speaker 1

回头聊。

Talk soon.

Speaker 0

好了,各位。

All right, everybody.

Speaker 0

非常感谢大家的收听和观看,我们下期再见,这里是《大科技播客》。

Thanks so much for listening and watching, and we'll see you next time here on Big Technology Podcast.

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