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The speaker says Meta’s bullish case rested on Muse growing quickly—faster than ChatGPT, with ads already appearing throughout the subway—and on the market not yet understanding it, while acknowledging he had not considered the risks. Alexander Wang reportedly described Muse as the product of a small, isolated skunkworks team, and the speakers said Meta’s greater compute availability made Muse snappier even though its feature set was slightly weaker at the time.

The speakers described compute as a constraint on AI development: Instinct slowed when compute-constrained, while Muse benefited from Meta having more compute available. Separately, one speaker said AI faces serious bottlenecks and raised the possibility of capital expenditure increasing from about $1 trillion to $5 trillion, potentially financed through borrowing, while emphasizing physical limitations; that scale-up was presented as a possibility, not a settled outcome.

One speaker said the Fed had to hike and that concerns Kevin Warsh might be pressured not to do so did not materialize, avoiding potential damage to Fed credibility; the speaker cited this as one reason the week was positive for markets. The same speaker expects a rising-rate environment that many people under 50 have not experienced and may not know how to navigate from experience.