Max Zeff
Senior AI Reporter, TechCrunch. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Max Zeff is a senior AI reporter at TechCrunch. He covers artificial intelligence industry developments, tech news, generative video tools like OpenAI's Sora, and their impact on social media and the creator economy.
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Meta will use AI chatbot conversations to target Instagram and Facebook ads
“Meta has basically announced that, yeah, we're going to take everything you say to an AI chat bot and we are going to Basically have it affect the kind of ads that you see on Instagram and Facebook. Of course there are some exceptions if you are talking about …”
Maintaining leadership in AI coding models is existential for Anthropic's business
“And I think that Anthropic, you know, for OpenAI, I mean, coding models are just a small piece of their business. ChatGPT is kind of the big tuna for them, but for Anthropic, I mean, this is existential, like they need to lead in coding and this is their attem…”
Avoiding engagement optimization limits social platform growth for apps like Bluesky
“I think we've seen some good players emerge in the social media space like a blue sky that doesn't seem to be focused on getting people to, you know, just spend as much time as possible on the platform all the time. That said, I think it limits their growth”
OpenAI genuinely optimizes ChatGPT for helpfulness rather than engagement loops
“ChatGPT at its core is about helping people. That is, I do actually take OpenAI at its face when it says that it optimizes ChatGPT to be helpful and not to just keep users in, you know, these engagement loops.”
OpenAI's latest model leveled Anthropic's dominant lead among Cursor developers
“GPT five, the model opening I released a month ago at this point, I believe two months ago, it really changed that. You know, people have talked to a cursor say that, you know, it completely Leveled the kind of usage between OpenAI and Anthropics models in a w…”
Claude Sonnet 4.5 will aid professional developers rather than enable non-coders
“And I'm curious to see if this actually enables everyday people to start using AI coding models more, or if it just makes a developer's life easier. I lean towards the latter.”
Apple's iOS ecosystem positions it to beat Meta in smart glasses
“Apple is in a much better position to win here. I mean, they can connect it to iMessage. They can connect it to all the apps on your phone. So I'm not sure what claim Meta really has besides being first to market here.”
Friend's rage-bait marketing is one of the smartest campaigns in years
“I think that their marketing is honestly, like one of the smartest marketing campaigns I've seen in a long time even if it is rage bait.”
Personalized cameos are the key differentiator for AI video apps
“Whereas with OpenAI's product, it's immediately become really compelling because people can see themselves in it. They can see other people they know. And that seems to be a really key detail here that is a big differentiator.”
Traditional social media incentives could push OpenAI to maximize engagement
“I think there's a real chance here that, you know, they are Pushed by some of the incentives that social media companies have been pushed by for the last 20 years.”
Meta is best positioned to monetize AI chat data for ad targeting
“Just how valuable all that information is to serve you ads elsewhere, and Meta's probably the best positioned company to do that.”
New OpenAI and Scale hires complain about bureaucracy inside Meta's AI division
“Basically, the level of bureaucracy inside of Meta specifically in its AI division is really a problem for a lot of people. I think that this is something that new employees that have come in from OpenAI and, you know, scale and whatnot have complained about, …”
Early users of the Friend AI pendant send 200 messages daily
“Avi has said that early users of friends send, like, an average of 200 messages a day to it, which is a lot.”
Meta's Vibes video app doesn't let users generate videos of themselves
“And that product doesn't let you make videos of yourself or your friends.”
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