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AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
- ▶ 30:57 Mustafa Suleyman So Amazon, uh, Google, us, Anthropic,
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk gets a one trillion dollar pay package to build an entirely new Tesla, and Amazon sues perplexity.
- ▶ 0:46 Alex Kantrowitz Tesla's, uh, shareholders, and Amazon has sued perplexity putting the bot internet into question.
- ▶ 3:18 Ranjan Roy Remember all of the, I mean, it's obviously raised an ungodly amount of money, but in the last few weeks, every big announcement is we will spend thirty eight billion dollars with Amazon, a hundred billion dollars with Oracle and…
- ▶ 22:48 Ranjan Roy I mean, that's the Amazon's entire retail business.
- ▶ 41:33 Alex Kantrowitz Bloomberg says, uh, Amazon sues to stop perplexity from using AI tools to buy stuff. 12 times in the scene
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 14:33 M.G. Siegler And of course they would point to like the Amazons of the world, right?
- ▶ 25:57 M.G. Siegler Um, famously, like, you know, Amazon was able to strike that deal in the early days of the Kindle, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 M.G. Siegler Um, famously, like, you know, Amazon was able to strike that deal in the early days of the Kindle, right?
- ▶ 28:18 M.G. Siegler The next AWS to, or Google cloud.
- ▶ 38:57 Alex Kantrowitz And so then what happens, like OpenAI hits AGI, let's say Anthropic gets there the next day, and Meta gets there a couple weeks later, and Amazon gets there a couple weeks later. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:12 Alex Kantrowitz The first phase of the deal will use existing AWS data centers, and I think this is already coming up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:58 M.G. Siegler Amazon doesn't do this.
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 30:10 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has this cloud business, and Amazon is building its own LLMs.
- ▶ 45:11 Ranjan Roy And I think it's gotta be because when Google or Microsoft spend more and even Amazon on capex, part of the assumption embedded in that is
- ▶ 57:38 Alex Kantrowitz You know, we have cloud outages all the time, so for me, the biggest worry is like, you know, humanoid robot holding my baby gets hit with an AWS. 2 times in the scene
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 12:58 Alex Kantrowitz That's why Amazon does their, uh, six pagers is to try to, although maybe those are going to be AI generated. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:19 Alex Kantrowitz Well, I think, so actually let's talk this through because to me, like one of the biggest moments of medium history, I'm curious what you think about this, was like when, uh, was it Jay Carney at Amazon and Obama or, no, he was working for… 3 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has an ambitious plan to automate hundreds of thousands of jobs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:52 Ranjan Roy Did you, did you have it actually buy your, buy you a flight ticket or a, a new, a new pair of pants on Amazon or something like that?
- ▶ 21:24 Alex Kantrowitz So, I mean, I was speaking about this with Panos Panay from Amazon this week about, uh, does the, you know, do you want to be really refined in your product strategy or do you want to throw spaghetti at the wall?
- ▶ 27:24 Ranjan Roy Or as we're talking about right now, like larger systems are not ready, and we're going to talk about Amazon and robotic automation, but like in so many of these domains, there's a lot more than just can I make one quick run and show that…
- ▶ 29:48 Alex Kantrowitz So, on the other side of this break, we are going to talk about this crazy Amazon story. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:50 Ranjan Roy Well, I mean, not as direct as, but it all falls in line with Amazon as well.
Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz We'll talk about it with Amazon's head of devices and services right after this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47 Panos Panay You think about Alexa, we're rolling it out slowly for, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Panos Panay Um, if you buy a new Echo device, we launched four new Echo devices yesterday.
- ▶ 5:11 Alex Kantrowitz For many years we didn't hear from Amazon executives in the way that you're having the conversation today. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:27 Alex Kantrowitz The, uh, the Alexa customer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 Alex Kantrowitz And I could be wrong about this, uh, but I'll give you my read of what Bezos was saying with, with Always Day One, and since you're in the company, you can help me get to the truth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Panos Panay Your example, I wasn't there for the transition and, um, but I will say, let's just use Alexa as an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:48 Panos Panay I just share it with Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Alex Kantrowitz We've seen visions from Google, from, uh, from Apple, from Amazon about this, uh, catch all, uh, or, um, I don't know, this always there, contextually aware, helpful personal assistant.
- ▶ 23:26 Panos Panay okay, maybe it takes a millisecond too long or, um, your deep fryer doesn't work the way you thought it would with Alexa, the way it did six months ago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:26 Panos Panay That's not Alexa comment, but it's just in general, like it's just moving fast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so you are head of devices and services at Amazon.
- ▶ 30:42 Alex Kantrowitz We're back here with Panos Panay, the head of devices and services at Amazon.
- ▶ 32:33 Panos Panay Just that contextual awareness that's possible, whether it's your, the Ring cameras or the Echo devices. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:40 Panos Panay I think you know this, but here's my plug, you know, we just launched our Ring for K line, which I'm very pumped about, and we've, and we launched four new Echo devices, some new Fire TV devices, Kindle, Blink, but the, but the energy, I…
- ▶ 36:43 Panos Panay It needs all, it needs all of it, and the more you give it, the stronger that, um, kind of foundational outcome of having a great assistant becomes, and because Alexa is that, because we believe it's the world's best personal assistant, I…
- ▶ 37:36 Panos Panay You get back home, you ask Alexa, you know, how much, how many steps did I have today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Alex Kantrowitz Cause I did want to ask you what Amazon's device release strategy is now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Alex Kantrowitz The thought was Amazon in some ways would throw spaghetti at the wall, that there was an Alexa microwave and an Alexa alarm clock, everything with Alexa in it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Alex Kantrowitz So last time you were here, I asked with, uh, I ended with a question of whether I should get an Alexa with, uh, an echo with a screen. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:24 Alex Kantrowitz So last time you were here, I asked with, uh, I ended with a question of whether I should get an Alexa with, uh, an echo with a screen. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:00 Alex Kantrowitz I've been looking at Amazon.com trying to get them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 Alex Kantrowitz Do I go to just go to the Alexa app and erase it and then toss it or what's the standard process to recycle one of those?
How Enterprises Actually Get ROI From AI — With Globant CEO Martin Migoya
- ▶ 16:19 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I was just speaking with an Amazon executive about this and talking about Alexa Plus, and I think the conclusion that we reached is that the hardest part of this entire 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Martin Migoya So instead of driving the traffic into, let's say an Amazon, 3 times in the scene
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 14:42 Ranjan Roy My son with Alexa, pre Alexa plus, which we've talked about over the last few weeks, but in the old school, just play me a song.
- ▶ 55:29 Alex Kantrowitz Next week, we will have Panos Panay, the Head of Devices and Services at Amazon, talk with us about the state of Alexa Plus, and give us concrete details on the broad rollout.
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 3:55 Rick Heitzman I mean, there was Blue Nile, and there was Amazon, and there was a bunch of things in the nineties.
Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
- ▶ 1:40 Parker Harris You know, I mean, we, we leveraged this shift to the internet, you know, and like when we started the company, it was like the motto was, you know, we want, um, software or Salesforce automation to be as easy as buying a book on Amazon.
- ▶ 13:34 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, I've heard the same demo from OpenAI, from Apple, from Amazon, from Google, and from Facebook.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 3:15 Alex Kantrowitz There's a version of the world, and this is the version that Microsoft and Amazon increasingly seem to be pursuing, where the next frontier is AI adoption. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 Ranjan Roy Kind of in that Microsoft and Amazon camp
- ▶ 41:08 Ranjan Roy This is not that different than imagine a Google or like Amazon and Anthropic.
- ▶ 45:32 Alex Kantrowitz I'm, I, I don't know why I can't get excited about this, or maybe I do feel like I've heard this from Google, from Amazon, from Apple, and OpenAI again, um, and, uh, and I'm not, like, gonna lose my mind over the platformization over, of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but like I set up Alexa plus recently 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:40 Alex Kantrowitz You can call an Uber from, you know, your echo device.
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 0:40 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, at this point, we also have Sam Altman and Johnny Ive running into some bumps as they begin to build their AI device and meta and apple, and maybe Amazon and Google all are basically on a collision course to build the same thing.
- ▶ 27:06 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has the compute for Alexa, so does Google.
- ▶ 27:06 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon has the compute for Alexa, so does Google.
- ▶ 34:45 M.G. Siegler Um, I, I feel like this is, and, and I'm somewhat biased cause I've like a long written about this dating back a decade where I thought that there, there would be like, you know, these vocal computing devices, not just Alexa, but like,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:23 M.G. Siegler The hardware part is now the hard part, which is always the hard part, but you know, companies like Amazon or Apple or Google can figure that out because they have their massive companies at scale. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:49 Alex Kantrowitz I remember when Amazon announced the Echo device and it was so cool because it glowed at the top and talked to you.
- ▶ 41:52 M.G. Siegler Now you could say Alexa, I gotta trigger it again, is sort of like that, um, in a way.
- ▶ 43:13 M.G. Siegler You mentioned Amazon cause they, as you noted, like they, it sounds like per reporting, they do have a glasses project as well, but they hired the Jay Allard, which was the name I hadn't heard in years and years out of Microsoft to work… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:10 Alex Kantrowitz Like you wrote in a post about how Amazon said, let's just get it out.
OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- ▶ 25:15 Alex Kantrowitz Of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:28 Ranjan Roy Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:50 Alex Kantrowitz We didn't even get to the fact that Amazon has settled, uh, with the FTC, which I will be doing this weekend, uh, with, uh, This Week in Tech.
Is Generative AI a Cybersecurity Disaster Waiting to Happen? — With Yinon Costica
- ▶ 39:27 Alex Kantrowitz Now I took issue with this because I had just met you at the Amazon, um, the re reinvent conference, and you had talked to me about how, what whiz does is it proactively that we were just talking about before the break, it proactively…
Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 25:19 Alex Kantrowitz Consumer companies like let's say Amazon with Alexa plus and Apple with Apple intelligence to put this together as something, um, on device or a consumer product that does similar activities because they've all promised it, but it's not…
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 30:27 Ranjan Roy Important that suddenly Oracle might be in the, in the camp of the hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, in terms of cloud computing with this one contract.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
- ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz We'll dive into it in a fascinating conversation with the CTO of Booz Allen and a former Amazon executive right after this.
- ▶ 3:08 Bill Vass You know, it's interesting, uh, Jeff Bezos at Amazon used to have this saying that two is better than zero. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:41 Bill Vass We use, uh, uh, co-pilot and Claude, um, and, um, uh, Q and cursor and, um, Klein, uh, for doing code development here at Booz Allen.
- ▶ 23:57 Bill Vass So, so, so for example, if you're doing, uh, with just regular AI, we, at Amazon, we did a lot of, um, uh, like, uh, cancer identification from MRIs and, and, and, uh, CAT scans.
- ▶ 27:17 Bill Vass So, so, so I think there's, you know, we use large language models at Amazon to help debug things in our fulfillment centers.
- ▶ 32:32 Alex Kantrowitz And that is that, uh, we see that Nvidia is going to do, uh, multi 100,000, hundreds of thousands of GPU data center, uh, with the Saudis, Amazon, your former employees committing, your former employer is committing to invest five billion… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:13 Bill Vass I mean, I was actually in at AWS, I was a big advocate for the Saudi region and I was actually at the Saudi region launch, uh, at the leap conference in, so in, you know, just outside of Riyadh there.
- ▶ 35:08 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Amazon had very clearly, or has very clearly defined leadership principles set by really one leader, Jeff Bezos. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:00 Bill Vass Remember, Tesla has this advantage very much like the Echo devices at Amazon, where they're able to crowdsource training from the users.
- ▶ 42:00 Bill Vass Remember, Tesla has this advantage very much like the Echo devices at Amazon, where they're able to crowdsource training from the users.
- ▶ 45:46 Bill Vass One of the reasons I left at AWS and I loved being at AWS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:54 Bill Vass Um, and that's part of why I joined was to make sure the government is moving faster, to take everything I've learned at Amazon and at Sun and
- ▶ 48:52 Bill Vass So, um, we've been, I started the quantum initiative at AWS when I was there and we've got a lot of great people working on that.
- ▶ 53:11 Bill Vass So, in fact, one of the targets for Amazon's working backwards document for our quantum computers, a thousand error cryptic qubits could do a Hamiltonian on ammonia. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:40 Bill Vass It was like EC two on, on AWS, but you, they ran into this, uh, innovators dilemma where they didn't, they couldn't sell it well because of the transition, uh, from, uh, selling capital to selling service.
- ▶ 1:01:40 Bill Vass It was like EC two on, on AWS, but you, they ran into this, uh, innovators dilemma where they didn't, they couldn't sell it well because of the transition, uh, from, uh, selling capital to selling service.
Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
- ▶ 4:46 Alex Kantrowitz We've seen Google, we've seen Amazon, we've seen Apple all try to roll out this contextually aware assistant that gets things done for you.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 25:46 Amjad Masad Uh, but, but even, uh, sort of large scale platforms, if you're building a core cloud component, the storage or virtual machine components on AWS or Google cloud or Azure, you want systems engineers that understand distributed systems,…
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 35:31 Ranjan Roy Fable Studio, an Emmy-winning startup, uh, just raised money, including from Amazon, uh, for its, they have an AI platform called Showrunner.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 33:16 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon owns a stake in Anthropic. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:23 M.G. Siegler So, and just to be clear, yeah, uh, Google and Amazon combined, I believe if my math is correct from all these court documents that I sort of went through, but I believe it's, it's roughly correct that I think them combined, those two…
- ▶ 44:39 Alex Kantrowitz It's something a mantra told me Amazon went public at four hundred million dollars.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- ▶ 17:08 Dario Amodei And I would also say, if you look at the size of the data centers that we're building with, for example, Amazon, um, I, I don't think our data center scaling is substantially smaller than that of any of the other companies in the space.
- ▶ 20:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you've raised 3,000,000,003 billion from Google, eight billion from Amazon, three and a half billion, uh, from a new round led by Lightspeed, who I've spoken with, um,