Reed Albergotti
Technology Editor, Semafor. On 1 show, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Reed Albergotti leads Semafor's technology coverage, reporting on artificial intelligence, digital media, and major tech platforms. He previously reported for The Washington Post, The Information, and The Wall Street Journal, and co-authored the book Wheelmen.
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4said about them ↓ Everything Reed Albergotti said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Albergati: OpenAI chip push is about inference costs, not superintelligence
“So I think when you talk about like opening AI, building its own chips and data centers and all this stuff, that's all about like them for seeing the future where there's so many people using these things, those it's expensive to run in the data center. They'r…”
Albergati: Traditional web search is going to be gone
“I think traditional search is, like, is going to be just Gone.”
Albergotti: Apple's heavy marketing focus on privacy crippled its AI development
“And also, you know, another, another BS thing that Apple pitched, which this is privacy thing, which honestly, like, I cannot believe how much mileage they got out of that. They kind of just painted themselves into a corner because, you know, all these other c…”
Albergotti: Post-Cambridge Analytica studies show social media disinformation doesn't sway elections
“We've seen so many studies that have come out since Cambridge Analytica that have basically backed up that point of view, which is like, you know, even though there's tons of information on, so disinformation on social media, people are not really ultimately s…”
Albergati: Meta's Future AI Models Will Be Closed or Backend-Only
“I think at this point, the new models are either going to just be part of their products, like almost backend technology, or they'll be, you know, they'll be closed models, just like open AI.”
Albergotti: Tech reporters let political bias skew coverage of Tesla
“Tech reporters allow their personal feelings and, you know, political feelings, emotions to kind of like skew their analysis of these companies.”
Albergotti: Private equity will take private public SaaS companies disrupted by AI
“We'll see a lot of these companies that are being kind of disrupted by AI, SaaS companies that are public get taken private by private equity companies.”
Albergotti: Consumers will reject AI agents that take pay-to-play brand deals
“They'll try to have your agent be on the take, but those products will get rejected, right? You're going to want, people are going to want AI agents that they can trust to make really good decisions.”
Albergotti: OpenAI's Stargate will focus on inference across multiple sites
“My guess is like, yeah, it will be built, but like, is it gonna be some huge thing that then they like train and train AGI on? I think it's probably gonna be like multiple sites and that are connected. And a lot of it's gonna be inference rather than training.”
Albergotti: OpenAI's core product will be interfaces, not models
“The ultimately the models are not even really gonna be their core product, right? It's gonna be the, it's gonna be all the stuff built around it, the interfaces and the stickiness of the product. So really, Inference becomes this huge cost for them.”
Albergotti: OpenAI and Microsoft will eventually drift apart
“I think eventually they drift. I think they drift apart. I mean, I think that's.”
Albergotti: Anti-Musk Bias Seeps Into Coverage of Tesla Robotaxis
“I think there's a lot of anti-Elon stuff that sort of, I think seeps into the coverage of this stuff. Unfortunately, it was just hard to do as a reporter. Like you know, it's hard to take your, to take the emotion out of the reporting, but I think it does kind…”
Albergotti: Rival AI demand is surging while Apple's AI remains terrible
“These other companies now can't even keep up with demand for their AI products. And meanwhile, Apple's is terrible.”
Albergotti: Tech monopolies like Apple are disrupted by new technology, not antitrust
“This, and I had this thought at the time, like, this is never going to disrupt Apple. What's going to disrupt them is new technology. That's how you know, create sort of creative destruction, disruption, and it's sort of why, like, to bring it to, like, what's…”
Albergati: Tech Giants Can Resell Excess AI Compute Due to High Demand
“I mean, this is, like, getting used today. Like, there's high demand for it, so when you see people, like, make these bets on compute, like, Meta or SpaceX AI, and they're off on the timing, right, or maybe off Totally. If depending on your opinion, they can t…”
Albergati: AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks Prevent the Boom From Becoming a Bubble
“I think those actually, they're like, I mean, other people have made this point too. I'm not the first person to say this, but like those actually, you know, kind of prevent this thing from going off the rails. It's like a bubble, you know, prevention mechanis…”
Albergati: The Global Economy Won't Tolerate a Winner-Take-All AI Monopoly
“I don't, I can't see this being a zero sum game only because the world will not tolerate like one winner in a product that everyone in the world has to use. That would, that, that, that company, that winner would be way too powerful. It just doesn't, it just d…”
Albergati: Major AI Breakthroughs Have Historically Never Occurred in Secret
“And I just, you haven't seen in the history of AI development, big breakthroughs happen in secret. These usually, you know, these papers come out, they ping pong around everybody, you know, it cross pollinates and then people come up with ideas around the same…”
Albergati: Efficiently Networking GPUs Is Today's Most Valuable AI Researcher Skill
“Like, that is actually, like, probably the most valuable skill of an AI researcher at this point, right? Is like, Figuring out how to efficiently string these GPUs together, make them work all at the same time.”
Albergati: Google Is Currently Six Months Behind Competitors on AI Coding
“They're viewed as being a little behind, which I mean, on coding, they admittedly are, they're like six months behind on coding.”
Albergati: AI Companions Won't Generate Meaningful Revenue Compared to Meta's Core
“There are other companies doing that by the way, and they can make some money off of it. Like it's nothing. It's a drop in the bucket. I think compared to what Facebook is an Instagram, like their core businesses and whatever WhatsApp, you know, fits into that…”
Albergati: Bearish on Apple Because New Siri Fails to Create Ecosystem Lock-In
“I don't think the new Siri is going to be that. So I'm just like not a believer in Apple for that reason.”
Albergati: Frontier AI models started multi-datacenter distributed training in late 2025
“These data centers were going to get so big that they're going to be, these large frontier models are going to be trained across multiple locations, which we started to see in like the last quarter.”
Albergotti: 2026 consumer AI will focus on products, not new models
“I think actually we're reaching this point in AI where it is still going to be the major topic of conversation, but I think the, I think some of the sort of novelty of it is, is wearing off now, and I think we'll see it kind of plateau, and then I think the pr…”
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