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Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 47:11 M.G. Siegler And in some ways it harkens back to what happened to Meadow with Lama, right?
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
- ▶ 6:50 Matthew Prince It, it was probably one of the biggest, between it and Facebook were like the two biggest forces that really made the web less interesting.
- ▶ 40:51 Matthew Prince The answer is you go on something like a Instagram or a Facebook or even a Google AdWords search, and you start to buy the ability to get your product in front of consumers.
Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
- ▶ 21:49 Alex Kantrowitz And that's like the case in point for our next story, which is that Meta, um, had a very aggressive plan to, um, trim its workforce and transform its workforce based off of the capabilities of AI 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Alex Kantrowitz Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace staff, Meta staff with AI. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:31 Alex Kantrowitz For the future owner of Facebook and Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:54 Alex Kantrowitz Ok, let's quickly talk about this Meta settlement, because you brought it up, and I think, in our, uh, document, and I think it's worth talking about. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:33 Alex Kantrowitz Meta agrees to pay eighteen billion to settle U.S. lawsuits over children's social media addiction, and it's going to pay it over the next decade, and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly…
- ▶ 54:43 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, then we talked about Meta's attempt to, uh, use AI to replace work,
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 0:42 Alex Kantrowitz You ran, uh, Meta's media department, the, um, division.
- ▶ 2:51 Campbell Brown You did this, and you went to Meta, and you were a journalist, and it doesn't make sense. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:19 Alex Kantrowitz Um, which is, you said that you tried to sort of broker, um, a understanding and a way forward between the publishers and the platforms, right, the news publishers and Facebook, and that it didn't work.
- ▶ 13:28 Alex Kantrowitz The reason why it didn't work is because, between Meta and the publishers, is because Meta just chose to optimize for engagement, and that left the publishers out in the dark. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 Alex Kantrowitz There was, so, it's funny, I was at Buzzfeed, which was a publication that sort of based its existence on the idea that people would want to get their information through social media feeds, and you were at, you were at Facebook, that was…
- ▶ 46:35 Campbell Brown Now, again, these are policies that these companies will have to develop, and Meta certainly spent years developing.
- ▶ 47:22 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, at Meta, it was like, you couldn't do, couldn't go a single day without you, the Royal U company, without stepping in it in terms of ban this politician or make this word or this.
- ▶ 55:21 Campbell Brown I, I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night worried about everything in a way that I didn't when I was at Meta, or even in TV.
Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
- ▶ 15:49 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, they don't, do they have, you know, I don't think Meta has three hundred forty seven billion in cash on hand, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, 340, was 347 billion dollars that Meta has, and obligations for leases that haven't kicked in yet. 3 times in the scene
Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
- ▶ 7:24 Paul Kedrosky So increasingly the providers of capital for these things look at it in that context and say, well, what's the yield in terms of I'm contributing on, you know, a hundred billion dollars to some massive meta project.
- ▶ 10:06 Alex Kantrowitz I'm Meta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:47 Paul Kedrosky Nowhere else on earth can you write it other than these giant data center campuses like the, the, the meta project in Louisiana or take your pick.
- ▶ 1:03:16 Paul Kedrosky And, you know, Ian Lacoon and others, the former researcher at, at, at, uh, Meta is now off doing his own world model thing.
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 40:49 M.G. Siegler Isn't really answering right now or asking even right now, because as you saw, like with these numbers, so Google dropped meta dropped, and a lot of that is spend related and with meta, it's more nuanced. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 M.G. Siegler And, you know, the reporting now suggests that it's months delayed and it sort of feels a little bit like the llama situation for meta back in the day.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 12:43 David Cahn Uh, it's funny actually, I, I remember writing that post, I had just read Hyperion, which is the name of Meta's new data center.
- ▶ 27:39 Alex Kantrowitz Like if that is Anthropics play, they actually lost, uh, far fewer people than competitors did to meta during the meta, um, super intelligence lab poaching spree back in the day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:32 unnamed speaker Part of why I think Meta and Google are so all in AI is their businesses are the most at risk from AI. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:06 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, for Meta, if they figure it out, like, let's say everything goes their way. 3 times in the scene
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 16:13 Reed Albergotti 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
- ▶ 27:05 Reed Albergotti That's insane.
- ▶ 53:05 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe this one is more rational meta drops, uh, as the AI costs increase. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:48 Reed Albergotti Facebook is an Instagram, like their, their core businesses and, and whatever WhatsApp, you know, fits into that.
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- ▶ 8:14 Alex Kantrowitz This could really unravel very quickly if the big tech companies like a Google, like Microsoft, like Meta determine, hey, maybe we don't need to, you know, make these massive infrastructure spends, and we can have some of the benefits of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:56 Ranjan Roy To me, that's a healthier story versus Meta and Google and everyone just looking at each other. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:23 Alex Kantrowitz Nikkei Asia reported this week that Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle have accrued around 1.65 trillion in outside outstanding debt over the last five years with the additional, with an additional hundreds of billions of dollars… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:54 Alex Kantrowitz Let's see what Meta says about AI.
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
- ▶ 0:16 Alex Kantrowitz Let's talk about it with ex-Meta Chief Security Officer and current Corridor Chief Product Officer Alex Stamos right after this. 2 times in the scene
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 0:43 Alex Kantrowitz And when they're a price war is really getting underway, especially now that Meta and SpaceX have released cheaper models.
- ▶ 6:25 Alex Kantrowitz It's also not that much, it's not cheaper than Grok's 4.5 model or Meta's MuseSpark 1.1. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:44 Alex Kantrowitz This can happen either through open source models like K-three at the frontier, or having vertically integrated models like Meta, SpaceX, or Google at the frontier, which is exactly what we're talking about. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 0:04 Alex Kantrowitz Meta undercuts the frontier labs on pricing, and Ivy League students use AI to cheat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:05 Alex Kantrowitz So you have your AGI, and it's in, ah, Codex, and it's, or the new ChatGPT app, and it's in Anthropix app, and Meta's figured it out some way, and Apple has it in the iPhone for whatever reason. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:25 Alex Kantrowitz So the rumors that Facebook, uh, may start its own AI cloud business. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:26 Ranjan Roy You could, he can forever argue you have four billion phones with like meta AI kind of jammed into Instagram and Facebook messenger and stuff.
The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- ▶ 2:02 Alex Kantrowitz And you're seeing companies like AT&T and Meta get really serious about cost.
- ▶ 7:55 Dallas Dolen That is going to be the, the, the, you know, the, the surface of play, so to say, where people are going to spend a lot of the time and energy at the AT&T's and the Meta's and the services companies and a lot of these other spaces,…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- ▶ 1:03 Alex Kantrowitz Meta has a ton of compute and a team of the best researchers to work on the algorithm, but the leading AI model hasn't materialized yet. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 Alex Kantrowitz Can you need some level of refinement of that base pre-train in order to be able to build the models that were the top tier models that we're seeing today, and that's what Meta is working through right now.
- ▶ 14:09 Alex Kantrowitz Or through glasses, like the type that Meta is making. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:41 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Andrew Bosworth, Bos, the CTO of Meta. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:20 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, let's talk about metaculture for a moment. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:59 Alex Kantrowitz Because, um, so basically the, the reports have been that, that Meta has, uh, started to track some keystrokes and the way that employees type, um, and, and basically use that as a way to train models.
- ▶ 42:13 Andrew Bosworth By the way, I would argue AI, all these paroxysms happening, not just at Meta, but at every company, is the pain I'm talking about.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 51:58 Alex Kantrowitz The following Wednesday with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 8:11 Alex Kantrowitz And we're going to join by Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Meta to do that.
- ▶ 11:19 Alex Kantrowitz He said, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta now have a serious nonzero opportunity to tank the frontier labs, go to the government, kneecap the labs motion of putting the latest models out into the wild, become the trusted gatekeeper between…
- ▶ 30:08 Aaron Levie Um, like, like from the moment that Meta. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:44 Alex Kantrowitz And you're seeing companies like AT&T and Meta get really serious about cost. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:58 Alex Kantrowitz Alex Stamos is the former chief security officer at Meta, and he's the current chief product officer at Corridor.
- ▶ 2:24:14 Mike Krieger Poster on the Facebook wall when we were so that was like every day feels like a week.
- ▶ 2:31:51 Mike Krieger We for years talked about moving from Python to PHP or hack or the Facebook language after the acquisition.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 3:55 Mike Krieger Poster on the Facebook wall when we were so that was like every day feels like a week.
- ▶ 11:32 Mike Krieger We for years talked about moving from Python to PHP or hack or the Facebook language after the acquisition.
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 7:25 Sarbjeet Johal So do you see that that's happening to Meta and others?
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 51:43 Alex Kantrowitz If this thing works is meta, right?
Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
- ▶ 0:04 Alex Kantrowitz Let's talk about it with the head of wearables at Meta right after this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:47 Alex Kantrowitz We're at Meta headquarters here in Menlo Park, California.
- ▶ 10:23 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Meta's in the process of developing, uh, personal super intelligence as the company, uh, describes it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:36 Alex Kantrowitz And it can, you know, when I was with Boz, uh, Andrew Boz with the CTO of Meta year and a half ago, two years ago, maybe at this .1 of the things he talked about was these glasses can be aware of your situation.
- ▶ 34:19 Alex Kantrowitz He's the VP of Wearables at Meta. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:21 Alex Kantrowitz And towards the end, it was almost like a throwaway, but he was talking about how important it was going to be to have a computing wearable, uh, like a pair of glasses.
- ▶ 45:40 Alex Kantrowitz The Times said it would let words of the smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, Meta is an interesting company because it's in the middle of doing that big build out, but it also has devices that I would imagine someday would want to run 3 times in the scene
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 5:32 Alex Kantrowitz Despite OpenAI trying to do it, despite Meta trying to do it, despite Google trying to do it, despite Amazon trying to do it, we don't have any revolutionary AI computing device yet. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:16 Alex Kantrowitz If, if Anthropic was grog, was like meta right now, and had like, you know, whatever their, their, their latest, uh, you know, model is that they're delaying, by the way, and they said, hey, you know, guys in the front, maybe slow it down.
- ▶ 47:50 Ranjan Roy I just love that Meta is not on there, even though, I mean, we kind of know it, but still, it's always interesting to see it placed that definitively.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 0:09 Alex Kantrowitz And do meta employees still believe? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:09 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, before we go, let's talk a little bit about what's going on at Meta. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:23 Alex Kantrowitz If you want to, you know, do a meta subscription, you can subscribe to WhatsApp Plus for two 99, Facebook Plus for three 99, Instagram Plus for three 99, Meta One Plus for seven 99, Meta One Essential for 1499, Meta One Premium for 1999,
- ▶ 57:07 M.G. Siegler You know, we're at the top of Facebook, and we're at the top of all these services, and then they just keep growing.
AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
- ▶ 40:48 Geoffrey Hinton He's obviously done a, uh, very successful job in creating a competitor to Google and OpenAI and Facebook.
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 2:36 Alex Kantrowitz That could include Uber, it could include Meta, it could include Microsoft, DoorDash, that have talked about, um, the fact that they are, you know, AI first, but that the spending of tokens has gotten way out of hand, right? 4 times in the scene
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 32:27 Alex Kantrowitz In an early meeting at Facebook, when I was describing the goals of Facebook platform, an area I oversaw, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, let's talk a little bit about Meta, which was your number one competitor when you were working on Twitter. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:34 Alex Kantrowitz Um, the interesting thing about meta is that is, is it really like a social network anymore? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 Alex Kantrowitz And this was, yeah, and this was my second week there, and this was Twitter and Facebook, that was basically my beat.
- ▶ 49:44 Alex Kantrowitz Over the last five years, a group of 10,000 people about, uh, at Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, NVIDIA, Meta, TBD, have hit retirement wealth above twenty million.
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 49:44 Ranjan Roy Like, he started to get there, and you start to think like, our models will be better because of this, which will make you more money and
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- ▶ 14:34 Alex Kantrowitz You were on Facebook. 4 times in the scene
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 19:41 Ranjan Roy Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Google, and Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:26 Ranjan Roy I mean, meta, actually meta. 2 times in the scene
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 10:19 Joanna Stern I do think the glasses, look, Meta's been surprised at how, how successful those glasses are.
- ▶ 11:43 Joanna Stern Now, Meta was completely wrong about what was wrong with the garage door.
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 9:03 Ranjan Roy Like, and again, working in the industry and seeing where this technology is going to go and believing this is going to transform enterprises in most knowledge work as well, but it's still more everyone from a Google to a Meta to OpenAI to…
- ▶ 48:23 Ranjan Roy Um, these companies got very big, and especially in big tech and the Metas and the Googles of the world, so I do believe 2 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 2:31 Alex Kantrowitz Compare that with Meta, which just raised its expectation to one hundred and forty five billion. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:30 Alex Kantrowitz Meta has not been able to do it. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 10:42 Ranjan Roy Like, I think, actually, Facebook is just one big AI slot
- ▶ 27:57 Alex Kantrowitz Do you think that OpenAI kind of has a Zuck-Winklevi argument to make here, which is like, if you were, uh, if you were so smart, you would create a Facebook, but you didn't.
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