I wanted an excuse to play with Meta AI’s video generator, so I made this short film — an amalgamation of some of my favorite movies: Fight Club (1999), Belly (1998), Shottas (2002), and a few anime influences. I infused the entire piece with a Solar Punk aesthetic, merging its vibrant, optimistic futurism with the raw energy and grit of those cinematic inspirations. Most of the shots were generated using Meta AI, with a few sequences made in Sora. Enjoy! 🌞
Mark Zuckerberg has never been a bitch — and that’s exactly why he still sets the gold standard for startup founders. The man had a movie made about him — a cult classic, no less — and became the youngest self-made billionaire in history. Say what you want from the peanut gallery, but Zuckerberg remains the chosen one.
What I respect most isn’t the money or the myth — it’s his visionary finesse. He has this uncanny ability to spot technology trends right before they explode and reposition Meta to dominate the next cycle. Take WhatsApp or Instagram — absolute gems of acquisition, now pillars of the creator economy and essential infrastructure for modern digital ecosystems.
Now, Zuckerberg’s back in the headlines — this time assembling what’s being called a superintelligence team. It’s the kind of flex you’d expect if the “infinite money glitch” were your go-to-market strategy. Stuck in traffic? Buy the entire interstate. “You guys will just have to find another way to get to work.”
He’s dropped $250 million on Matt Deike, co-founder of Vercept; offered up to $300 million over four years to former OpenAI researchers Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, and Trapit Bansal; and acqui-hired Alexander Wang from Scale AI for $14.3 billion. These sums aren’t just large — they’re astronomical for a nine-to-five.
Which leads to the obvious question: what the hell is he building? The Manhattan Project 2.0? A failsafe for an extinction-level event? Are we scrambling to stop Thanos from assembling his Infinity Gauntlet? And if so… how much time do we have left?
Whatever it is, Mark — I’m in. Lock me down for $150 million over four years. I’ve always been a true believer.
Hey folks — it’s Medallion XLN. Today we’re asking: what is this AI superintelligence project, and what does it aim to solve? Even Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, has been tapped to co-lead Meta’s AI initiative (financials undisclosed). Before we dive deeper — if you’re reading and not subscribed, hit that button. It’s a small click that helps us out massively and lets us keep delivering content like this.
Now, tell me in the comments: what problem would you solve with an infinite money glitch? Nosy neighbors? Not if you buy the entire neighborhood.
When it comes to AI, Meta is not number one. It’s not number two or three either. At best, it’s a confident number four, trailing Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. And honestly? Being “#1 at AI research” is overrated anyway. Meta owns the world’s attention gateways — Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — printing infinite money on demand. When you control the pipes that pump dopamine into billions of brains, you don’t need to win research trophies. You just need to ship products the masses can’t ignore.
That’s why Meta is still the dark horse to watch. With its distribution advantage, an AI feature doesn’t need to earn adoption — it can be deployed into existence. Flip a switch and boom: global rollout, instant cultural integration, overnight behavioral shift.
If I were placing a bet on Polymarket, I’d speculate the grand ambition of Zuckerberg’s superintelligence team is a Jarvis-style AI assistant — Iron Man for the masses — woven directly into our daily lives. Not another chatbot. Not another toy app. A full-time AI companion embedded into your reality through smart glasses and XR. The Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin tried and face-planted. Meta, with infinite money and a frictionless distribution channel, could actually pull it off.
Of course, that means giving your “always-on” AI assistant front-row seats to your existence. Your secrets. Your habits. Your vices. Your micro-expressions and bathroom lighting. We think targeted ads are invasive now just because our smartphones eavesdrop on conversations and track our every location. Just wait until the machine can literally see what you see. The ad server will know you’re depressed before you do — and offer a coupon code to fix it.
I don’t mean to get dystopian. I’m sure the mobile games will be incredible.
Every time I talk to Robert Scoble, he basically tells me to get over it — that privacy is a relic and we should embrace the future with a smile and a firmware update. And as much as I admire that optimism toward our benevolent techno-feudal lords, I still wish we could subscribe to progress without sacrificing our digital sovereignty. But hey — that’s just me. A little sarcasm. I’m sure everything’s fine.
Anyway, back to Zuckerberg’s superintelligence ambitions. If this plays out anything like the time he used his infinite-money glitch to acquire every major VR company, only to abandon the Metaverse and leave the VR industry looking like a Silicon Valley graveyard, then… let’s just say I’m not overflowing with hope. But I remain fascinated — and slightly terrified.
Because if Meta ever does get Jarvis right, the world changes instantly. And there’s no uninstall button.
Let’s be honest, Mark Zuckerberg has minted more millionaires and billionaires than any other company. From Direct-To-Consumer empires built on targeted ads to billion-dollar unicorns fueled by the viral engines of social media, Meta has quietly become what Adam Smith called the invisible hand of capitalism. It doesn’t just connect people — it connects ambition to infrastructure.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, and DeepMind build ivory towers. Meta builds highways. Access has always been its power move. Zuckerberg didn’t build a walled garden; he built a global marketplace. He turned social interaction into digital capitalism and gave creators the ability to summon distribution out of thin air.
That’s why I don’t see Meta AI’s superintelligence project as an instrument of control — but as the next great act of liberation. The same way Zuckerberg democratized communication and commerce, he’s now poised to democratize cognition itself. His “Infinite Money Glitch” isn’t greed — it’s the cheat code to rewrite the rules of capitalism.
If Meta AI’s going to swing for god-tier AI, the mandate is clear, fix the compute problem. Reduce the cost of training, inference, and scale. Make intelligence sustainable. Meta AI already shifted the landscape once with LLaMA — forcing openness, cutting the cost of innovation, and shattering the illusion that frontier models must stay locked behind corporate vaults.
Repeat that play at the superintelligence layer, and Meta could stop the future from collapsing into an oligarchy of a few private labs that own how we perceive reality itself. Pour infinite-money-glitch resources into compute, infrastructure, and open access — and we might finally transcend today’s autocomplete machines for systems that can actually plan, reason, and act.
Meta already owns the world’s social bloodstream — WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook. When it drops an AI assistant into those platforms, there’s no adoption curve. Just an update button. Overnight, superintelligence becomes a default feature of human life.
If Meta bakes alignment, threat modeling, and guardrails into the core — instead of duct-taping morality on afterward — they might actually write the constitution for the post-human era.
See Mark — I’m worth every penny. Let’s make it official!
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