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“This lane is open because everyone else seems to just be obsessed so much with just automating knowledge work, which, I mean, isn't even that charismatic version of the future, right? Because it's like, all right, like, a big part of our belief too is that the kind of highest use of superintelligence is invention and creation, not automation.”

Cheeky Pint · Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS · October 2026

“This lane is open because everyone else seems to just be obsessed so much with just automating knowledge work, which, I mean, isn't even that charismatic version of the future, right? Because it's like, all right, like, a big part of our belief too is that the kind of highest use of superintelligence is invention and creation, not automation.” — Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint

Zuckerberg explaining why Meta needs to build its own frontier models instead of relying on others. He sees a personal, consumer-focused version of superintelligence as a lane the other labs have left open.

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…can do that if you don't have the ability to build end-to-end your own superintelligence and build them into the products that people use. And I think that this is something that you just like believed from very early on, Is basically, it's like, all right, there are going to be like a handful of these. Like, it's like there's a kind of personal and consumer-oriented version of this. And like, this lane is open because everyone else seems to just be obsessed so much with just automating knowledge work, which, I mean, isn't even that charismatic version of the future, right? Because it's like, all right, like, a big part of our belief too is that the kind of highest use of superintelligence is invention and creation, not automation. And so, I don't know, it just seemed like there's like a big place in there, but you kind of need to own the stack. John Collison How is the Muse-mediated future going to shake out with businesses need to— okay, businesses variously need to build support for for Muse, where it might try to computer use its way in, but that might be janky in certain ways. So you kind of want everyone to have…

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