Ex-Meta VP: ChatGPT Is Just the Trailer for What’s Coming Next

Why would a top AI leader leave Meta at the peak of the AI boom?

Manohar Paluri is the co-founder and CTO of Warp Sciences. Before that, he spent years at Meta, where he worked closely with Yann LeCun. He started his career as an intern, and his alma mater includes IIIT Hyderabad, SRI and Georgia Tech.

In this episode Manohar explains why the magical personal assistants are just the trailer for AI, why physical intelligence is the hardest bottleneck in tech, the truth behind open-weights vs. closed models, and why he wants to build scientific superintelligence when he could have worked on anything.

If you are interested in solving the hardest problems, watch this episode.

00:00 Why Leave "Center of the Universe"?
00:57 Frontier Models and Plane Wi-Fi
03:40 AI Has Conquered Bits Not Atoms(Yet)
07:13 Why Real World Is AI's Hardest Loop
11:29 AI Assistants Are Just the Trailer
14:01 Will Frontier Eat All Software?
17:43 Open Source Isn't Truly Open?
26:28 What If Hardware Gets 10x Better?
29:58 Is Sovereign AI Needed?
38:04 Why Zuckerberg, Sundar and Elon Launch on X
42:07 Perception Drive Reality Until It Doesn’t
43:20 Spot, Learn, Leap, Build
47:46 What Yann LeCun Taught Him
50:56 Zuckerberg and $1B Instagram Bet
54:51 Finding The Bottleneck is The Hack
57:40 The Super Hard Problem To Solve
01:03:30 How to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
01:05:44 Can You Make the Elephants Dance?
01:11:10 Silicon Valley Is a Mumbai Local Train
01:14:55 The World Will Beat Pessimism Into You
01:19:14 How to Keep Going When Things Get Hard
01:23:45 Macro Optimist and Micro Pessimist

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