Meta’s Muse Wonder Challenges OpenAI, Why Companies Struggle to Prove AI Returns

The Information’s Tech and Politics Reporter Leo Schwartz talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the White House’s AI testing shake-up. We also talk with Vals AI Founder and CEO Rayan Krishnan about Meta’s Muse Wonder models and Laura Bratton about why companies struggle to measure AI returns. Lastly, The Information Pro’s Head of Research Eric Bellomo explains why developers are choosing cheaper, “good enough” models.

Articles discussed in today’s show:

- Trump Administration Plans to Move AI Testing Agency Officials to White House

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-administration-plans-move-ai-testing-agency-officials-white-house

- Meta Unveils New AI Models to Challenge OpenAI and Anthropic

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-unveils-new-ai-models-challenge-openai-anthropic

- Leading-Edge AI Models Are Losing Their Allure With Developers

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/leading-edge-ai-models-losing-allure-developers

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Chapters:

01:13 - Introduction

02:28 - The White House’s AI testing shake-up

15:02 - Meta’s Muse Wonder review

18:51 - Token efficiency and agent costs

24:18 - Measuring corporate AI returns

30:56 - Why developers choose cheaper models

37:33 - When frontier AI is worth the premium