Andrew Bosworth
Chief Technology Officer, Meta. On 4 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Joining Facebook in 2006 as an early engineer, Bosworth helped build foundational products including the News Feed, Groups, and early advertising systems. As Meta's CTO, he oversees Reality Labs, driving consumer hardware and artificial intelligence initiatives such as Quest headsets and smart glasses.
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68statements
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71said about them ↓ Everything Andrew Bosworth said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bosworth: Meta emptied its AI research pipeline to build Llama 3
“When we were pulling Llama three together, we had really pulled in all the research, all the every, we pulled out every single stop we had and unwittingly kind of killed the pipeline. So researchers, you know, the way that it works is you build a base And you'…”
Bosworth: Competitors like Apple, Google, and OpenAI lack complete stacks
“And I think it is the collection of all four of those things that we see as our superpower relative to the competitors, most of whom, whether it's Apple or Anthropic OpenAI or Google, only have one of those things.”
Bosworth: Mobile Gatekeepers, Especially Apple, Stifle Meta's Application Development
“Strategically, we have just been at the mercy of platforms for since the start of the mobile era. And we were a web company, right? We were born of the web, and the web was this, like, amazing, unowned platform that you just, like really had a lot of control o…”
Bosworth: Apple's ATT Self-Preferencing Slowed Down the Games Industry
“We built a app install business and then Apple came for that with ATT, you know, a tremendous amount of kind of self-preferencing for themselves there. And in doing so, they really put a, you know, the brakes on what was a really rapidly growing part of the ga…”
Bosworth: Consumers will soon treat AI models like invisible database infrastructure
“The model itself isn't the value. And I think we're going to get to a world very soon where consumers, they don't care. They don't want to specify the model they're using. They don't want to, they don't care if it's 4.7 or 4.8. Like you don't care what Oracle,…”
Bosworth: The era of monolithic AI models ended around Llama 3
“The era of the monolithic model kind of died around Lama III launch. Like, the idea, like, here's one model, and just, like, let's just test how smart this model is, and that was how good it's going to be at lots of things. We're now in a world where when you'…”
Bosworth: Future smart glasses will generate custom apps on the fly
“In the future, there's no reason that couldn't just be you wearing the glasses in real time, telling the glasses what app you want right now, and having it on the fly build that app for you.”
Bosworth: The future of computing is agent-brokered services, not standalone apps
“I don't think the appy thing is the way the future's gonna look. I think the future's gonna be valuable services. That are provided to you, and you getting access to those services the way that you want when you need it, and paying money to the people who prov…”
Bosworth: Meta reassigned thousands of employees to generate AI training data
“We basically saw this huge opportunity, such a big opportunity that we pivoted kind of on a dime and brought a lot of people across the company, thousands of people out into this AAI organization to do these expert traces.”
Bosworth: Meta added unlimited pausing and opt-outs to employee tracking program
“Unlimited pausing. People can opt out for a bunch of reasons. So like we've made a bunch of changes to the program for people who had concerns about it.”
Bosworth: Meta's Orion prototype proves post-smartphone computing is achievable
“That's why I said like the, Orion was the first thought time I thought Me. Like, the first, Orion, like, putting that in my head, I was like, okay, like, it could happen. Like, there does exist, like, a life for us as a species past the phone.”
Bosworth predicts AI will replace explicit app selection with intent orchestration
“I am wondering if, like, the progression of AI over the next several years doesn't turn the app model on its head. To where it's like, instead of me being a great now, it's a kind of an unusual thing where I'm like, ah, like I want to play music. So in my head…”
Bosworth predicts developer ecosystems will emerge around failed AI query requests
“What's gonna happen is there's gonna become a query stream of people using AI to do things and the AI will fail. Repeatedly in certain areas because that's a type of functionality that is currently behind some kind of an app wall, and there's no. There's no br…”
Bosworth: AI interfaces will abstract away brand names, challenging traditional brands
“It abstracts away a lot of companies' brand names, which I think is going to be very hard for an entire generation of Brands.”
Bosworth predicts future AI breakthroughs will come from small labs
“A lot of these contributions aren't going to come from these big labs, like they're going to come from these little labs.”
Bosworth says AI models will become commodities, making open source smart strategy
“I believe these are going to be commodities and you want to commoditize your compliments.”
Bosworth says augmented reality won't happen automatically without massive capital and effort
“There's a lot of people in tech who are like, yeah, AR will eventually happen. That's not how it fucking works, man. You have to stop And put the money and the time and do it. Like somebody has to stop and do it.”
Bosworth: AR is history's first computing platform without direct manipulation
“Well, it's worth noting this is really the first computing platform that we've had ever that didn't have a direct manipulation interface.”
Bosworth: Meta has meaningful tech lead in AR over Apple
“I think we've been investing longer. I think we've believed in it more. And as a consequence of frankly, Mark Zuckerberg's faith and tremendous execution by a team of Thousands of people over a long period of years. I think we have a meaningful lead in a bunch…”
Bosworth: Apple will block third-party AI agents from intermediating iPhone apps
“That is not something that Apple wants some other developer to be able to do, because that would disintermediate their position, their privileged position on the phone.”
Bosworth: App model will not disappear, but gain agentic layer
“So I think the application model doesn't go away. But I do think you end up injecting this potential new layer on top of it, which is an agentic layer.”
Bosworth: AR will conceivably replace smartphones for high-end consumers over time
“We're a long ways from that for a bunch of reasons, not the least of which being the technology is not ready yet, but also because The application ecosystems will take a long time to transfer and user behaviors take a long time to change. So I think we have a …”
Bosworth: Wrist neural interfaces will eventually work without physical gestures
“Over time, we think we can do that without having any gestures at all. Just having the intention, expressing the intention down your control system.”
Bosworth: Invasive brain implants are a consumer non-starter due to myelination
“There's a couple of challenges, one of which is that the brain myelinates the things that are put there, so they become electrically inert over time. So they have to be removed and replaced. And if you leave them in long enough, they can prove fatal or at leas…”
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Who brings them up most Lenny Rachitsky 13John Coogan 9Alex Kantrowitz 9Sriram Krishnan 6Naomi Gleit 5Ranjan Roy 4Marily Nika 4Ami Vora 3
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Sankar: Tech leaders Bosworth, McGrew, and Weill joined U.S. Army program
“So I was proud to join the army with three other colleagues. So we have Bob McGrew, chief, former chief research officer at open AI Boz, the CTO of Meta and Andrew Weill, the former chief product officer of open AI, head of science now.”
Roy: Meta Is Winning the Wearable Computing Interface Race
“That's what, that's exactly how I've seen this whole interface of computing for a long time, and they are, they're winning. They're winning right now, and they're moving in the right direction as well.”
Bosworth: Gen AI lowers the creation barrier set by Roblox and Minecraft
“You've got Roblox, you've got Minecraft, they're awesome tools, you've got tremendous communities there of creators, but there is a ceiling on how good the rendering can be in those platforms, which I know, and it's also, you have to be a certain level of crea…”
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2023 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
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| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 2 | 43 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Big Technology → |
| LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 0 | 0 | 60% 3/5 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |
| a16zLEDGER | Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 1 | 25 | 100% 4/4 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 0 | 0 | — | full record on TBPN → |