Zuck just bought the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls

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In today’s collision between AI and our world:

• The greatest ever?
• The greatest now?
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Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Steve Kerr, Ron Harper, Luc Longley, Toni Kukoc… and Phil Jackson as coach.

They were 37-0 to start the season, which was a 44 game winning streak, they set a away games win record of 33. They topped the Eastern Conference with a huge 12-game margin to Orlando (who they swept 4-0 in the Eastern Conference Finals).

They of course went on to win the Championship, their fourth in a six year period, and the start of another “three-peat” (they won 1991, ’92, ’93, ’96, ’97 and ’98).

They are widely considered the greatest team to ever assemble on a basketball court… a superteam.

And their pay packets reflected as much.

Jordan was said to be on $3.85 million, Kukoc of $3.5M, Harper $3.12M, Pippen on $2.9M, Rodman on $2.5M and Longley on $2.3M. That’s over $37 million (in today’s dollars) on just their main roster starters.

Big money for the best in the world.

But in today’s dollars, it’s not just NBA players who make the big bucks. And when it comes to a superteam, Mark Zuckerberg has put together his own line up of All-Stars that in the AI world, would rival the ’95-’96 Bulls.

And much like the Bulls, Zuck isn’t holding back on the money he’s fronting for this superteam. If the rumours and numbers are true, his superteam, for his new “Superintelligence” division might cost him in the ballpark of $1 billion.

The information coming out seems to be that these AI superintelligence draftees are signing on with four year packages in the realm of $300 million with a $100 signing bonus.

And you thought NBA players got paid well!

That’s more than any professional athelete ever made in any year, ever. Even Tiger Woods or Floyd Mayweather Jnr. It’s mega bucks, and a clear sign that Meta is not messing about here.

Take a look at the roster that Zuck now has…

What you’ll notice there is most of them are from OpenAI. And only weeks ago Sam Altman was saying none of their top people were taking these deals…

Yeah right.

As i said the other day, everyone has their number.

But now Zuck has stacked his superintelligence team and paid through the nose for it, what next?

My take is as it was months ago, that Meta is a strong candidate to end up on the top step of Big Tech when it comes to AI dominance.

Yes, Google has a long standing history in AI, yes OpenAI certainly has the ChatGPT phenomenon, but it’s Meta with their open source Llama approach that seems to be sucking up the talent and taking the right approach.

Open source the AI, but build an immense ecosystem of devices, platforms, and multo-stream revenue opportunites to benefit from it.

We are in a new era of superstars. And in a few years time when my kids are trading their AI Engineer trading cards, and one of them opens a pack with a Jiahui Yu rookie card and it’s worth more than a Jordan rookie card, I’ll roll my eyes when they say, “Dad, you used to do this with…basketball players?“

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Boomers & Busters 💰

AI and AI-related stocks moving and shaking up the markets this week. (All performance data below over the rolling week).

Boom 📈

• Brainchip (ASX:BRN) up 13%
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) up 13%
• Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ:MRAM) up 5%

Bust 📉

• IBM (NYSE:IBM) down 1%
• AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) down 2%
• Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) down 8%

From the hive mind 🧠

• Does this make Cloudfare hugely undervalued? At $64 billion they’re at a lofty valuation, but if they become the safeguards from AI online, maybe there is no ceiling?
• I’ll have more to say on this on Friday, but until then, take a look at what Microsoft has done recently. Considering my own experience recently with AI and healthcare, I think this is a good thing for everyone long term.
• Every part of this makes Altman look incredibly salty.

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Sam Volkering

Editor-in-Chief

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