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Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 2:31 Alex Kantrowitz He says Meta's massive hiring spree and XAI releasing Grok IV may be related at the highest level. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:19 Alex Kantrowitz LLM with this compute and talent that it's stacking up, then it's going to be able to distribute that through Facebook products.
- ▶ 9:57 Alex Kantrowitz And Meta, let me give Meta an example, as an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 unnamed speaker How much time people spend scrolling Facebook and how many ads you can show them, which is kind of like I respect from a cold business logic, but,
- ▶ 27:57 Alex Kantrowitz So first of all, when Meta made this deal with scale, I think it bought 49% of the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:11 unnamed speaker And it's an interesting one because for a long time, like Facebook wanted to own shopping.
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat
- ▶ 39:18 Alex Kantrowitz So a lot of these, especially here, a lot of these international students, they'll come get an education at Stanford and then they'll go invent the next algorithm, uh, inside Meta or OpenAI or Anthropic.
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 9:08 Aaron Levie Uh, that, that, that would be like if, you know, you worked at Facebook and everybody was on, on X all day long and not, not using, you know, Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Aaron Levie Um, obviously you can, you can, and we saw this with Meta a little bit, you can sort of train your models to, to perform better at some of the evals or the benchmarks, which then, you know, somewhat can delude you into thinking that the…
- ▶ 34:04 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and then you have meta spending all this money on talent.
- ▶ 44:05 Aaron Levie You know, the only, the only thing I would just suggest or posit is, is, you know, this, um, it'll be fascinating to watch what Meta does with, um, obviously it's new super intelligence org, because, because we actually already saw it with… 2 times in the scene
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz Does Meta have what it takes to build super intelligence?
- ▶ 31:42 Alex Kantrowitz Meta is making this very interesting play to try to write better algorithms, um, with this super intelligence team that Mark Zuckerberg is assembling. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:28 M.G. Siegler When Meta's team, you know, is, is fully ramped and sort of working on new projects and what if it's, you know, what if whatever they end up building is, you know, in some ways sort of going off the rails and, and, you know, does… 2 times in the scene
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- ▶ 0:44 Alex Kantrowitz Of course, Facebook, uh, disputes that, or meta disputes that we also have this incredible experiment to break down for you about how anthropic let Claude run a vending machine.
- ▶ 1:29 Alex Kantrowitz Now we should start there because we talked a few weeks back about the talent wars and what Mark Zuckerberg might be doing in offering so much money to AI engineers considering coming into Meta and becoming a part of his super intelligence… 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:20 Alex Kantrowitz So, um, let's end this segment with a couple of bigger picture questions about Meta.
- ▶ 20:40 Alex Kantrowitz Um, is there gonna be a cultural blow up within Meta because of this, or do you think they're able to figure it out? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Alex Kantrowitz You don't want to be Facebook sitting on the outside and say, please use our app. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:20 Ranjan Roy This is what Mark Zuckerberg needs to pay us a hundred, a hundred million dollars for to go into, to go into meta and just fine tune llama to just be, just be a little bit of a dick.
- ▶ 54:51 Alex Kantrowitz And if he can, uh, maybe he gets 10 of those super intelligence jobs at Meta, and he becomes the first billion dollar a year rank and file engineer. 2 times in the scene
The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- ▶ 50:18 Reed Albergotti And then I think of, and then I think what Facebook did or what Meta did with, you know, basically sort of acquiring non-acquiring scale AI, which is like the, you know, known for going out and gathering all this data, um, not just…
Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like
- ▶ 13:09 Alex Kantrowitz Nvidia, Microsoft, uh, uh, well, not Apple, but Meta has definitely played there.
- ▶ 21:12 Tom Lee And actually, the companies that captured mobile data were, it was, like, Meta, which didn't even exist in the nineties, right?
- ▶ 49:10 Alex Kantrowitz So if you look at the companies that are up, you have Nvidia up, seven percent year to date, Meta up, 13%, year to date, Microsoft up, 15% year to date.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 36:06 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Suskever ultimately turned Meta down. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:54 Ranjan Roy Um, I mean, first of all, I think Ilya is worth thirty two billion just for the branding of super intelligence and bringing ASI to market and letting us move past AGI, but I think that's fair that, yeah, I mean, if you're already a… 2 times in the scene
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- ▶ 45:58 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, why do you think Meta has struggled with Lama? 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 19:43 Alex Kantrowitz We're gonna get to it in a moment with Meta.
- ▶ 26:56 Alex Kantrowitz Meta is making a very big investment in scale AI. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:44 Ranjan Roy So this is the most meta and let's go, let's just call it a Facebook thing because this is like old school Facebook. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:14 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so we talked again about Meta, seeing an issue and addressing it.
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 20:43 M.G. Siegler Now, obviously there's a famous examples like dating back to Facebook of like, you know, surfacing, you know, old girlfriends or surfacing people that you don't want to see anymore and that kind of stuff.
- ▶ 23:08 M.G. Siegler Cause I feel like, I don't know if it's the sort of historical privacy messaging or even the anti sort of meta and, and Google messaging, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:27 M.G. Siegler And so if, if, and when they can find sort of, uh, either that next device or that product for the current devices, they can move units and sell these things in a way that, that Google can't match in a way that Meta can't match. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:28 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Ranjan Roy and I will be back on Friday to break down the week's news, including Meta's big investment in scale AI and Alexander Wang making his way inside the company.
Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- ▶ 0:19 Alex Kantrowitz We'll talk about this partnership between Meta and Andruil to build these war VR goggles, which is quite interesting and might signal a shift in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 20:13 Alex Kantrowitz Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Google, and Meta, uh, they are all gonna be boosting their spending on AI, and analysts expect combined spending by those four companies, uh, so, yeah, four, wait, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, those… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:44 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, by the way, just one quick, no, I mean, Lord almighty, Meta, there was a story this week how Meta's lost lots of, uh, of its AI researchers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:44 Alex Kantrowitz So we're gonna talk a little bit about this very interesting Grammarly story, but before that, let's just talk a little bit about this other area that Meta is going down, which is that they are going into, uh, defense tech with a very… 9 times in the scene
Yann LeCun: We Won't Reach AGI By Scaling Up LLMS
- ▶ 1:39 Yann LeCun And most of the investment, at least for, from the meta side is investment in, uh, infrastructure for inference. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Alex Kantrowitz Now, Meta is making this consumer bet, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Yann LeCun We have one at Meta.
She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
- ▶ 0:31 Alex Kantrowitz Right, and you have very fascinating perspectives on where things are heading in AI and where they should be heading, and that was also the case about a decade ago when we met when you were at what was then Facebook, researching whether,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, just go back to the fact that you work for Facebook, you know, uh, Facebook is, I would say the number one company on capitalizing on that system one need for instant gratification. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:44 Y-Lan Boureau So for me, what really drew me to Facebook, because for three years I did not go into big tech, even though I finished my PG in 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:29 Y-Lan Boureau There's also, we, we, I started, I just started like two weeks ago our Facebook page on Thrive Battle, not Instagram because Meta suspended my Instagram page, so for now it's like, 4 times in the scene
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
- ▶ 6:22 Alex Kantrowitz That right now we've been waiting forever for, uh, GPT five, uh, meta had some problems with llama.
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz Plus, Grok starts spewing unprompted propaganda and reveals its system prompt, and Meta's Llama Project is in some serious trouble. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you have Google first, then YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, and then number five is ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:32 Ranjan Roy Well, I would call it less of a lack of worry and more unfortunately of just a deep rooted cynicism in terms of like, it's not that much worse than a Facebook algorithm or a TikTok algorithm that's been doing the same thing.
Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 24:15 Alex Kantrowitz I think Meta used for Lama four, or it could be the million clusters, uh, GPU center that Elon's built for Grok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 Gary Marcus And I think the fact that meta could be basic, that meta could basically make that decision for the whole
- ▶ 43:19 Alex Kantrowitz It's concerning because whatever data I gave to Facebook, like, I always used to think that this conversation around Facebook data was a little ridiculous because, uh, I didn't think I was giving that much information to Facebook, but I am… 3 times in the scene
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- ▶ 4:10 Ranjan Roy I mean, Facebook slash Meta was one of the most famous transitions to the mobile era from desktop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Alex Kantrowitz And just to the subject of building more, I know we're going to get to meta earnings and what Mark Zuckerberg said about AI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:02 Alex Kantrowitz Meta and Microsoft all report over the past couple of days.
- ▶ 50:14 Alex Kantrowitz All right, very quickly, Facebook, forty-two billion in sales in the first quarter. 5 times in the scene
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 0:40 Alex Kantrowitz Whether you can shop directly in ChatGPT and Instagram founder Kevin Systrom testifying against Meta.
- ▶ 55:00 Alex Kantrowitz So Mehta, of course, is on trial in an antitrust case, and who shows up but Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, who famously sold Instagram for a billion dollars to Facebook back in the day. 19 times in the scene
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 0:22 Alex Kantrowitz We have a major week of news for you, including a massive new model released from OpenAI, Facebook,
- ▶ 33:03 Alex Kantrowitz And I just thought this week was a week of contrasts where you had Mark Zuckerberg in DC trying to testify about what Facebook, uh, has become and what it's up to. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:44 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, we, we did talk a little bit about the Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Ranjan Roy It's what does, it's still been so long since there's been anything at that scale, like could Meta sell off
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 11:22 Alex Kantrowitz And it just totally makes sense that he's also using this now Chinese strategy of open source AI to help develop consumer apps with Facebook, because that is there, that is effectively, I think if I'm getting what you're saying, right, in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:52 Alex Kantrowitz We want everything to be compatible with our systems, and that will, in turn, lead to growth in our products, and we're going to put it everywhere, uh, including, you know, within Messenger, and within WhatsApp, and within Instagram, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:50 Alex Kantrowitz We have meta working on this stuff.
Tariffs Impact on Tech Stocks: A Black Swan Event? — With Adam Parker of Trivariate Research
- ▶ 9:23 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, here's Ben Thompson on Meta, Google, and Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Tariffs and Turmoil: Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on What Trump Is Thinking, And What Comes Next
- ▶ 0:45 Alex Kantrowitz We're going to cover why Trump is doing this, if it's likely to succeed, when he might blink, what it means for the tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla.
- ▶ 6:37 Ryan Petersen You know, Cambodians probably not going to buy a lot of American manufactured goods, but I bet you they pay for some Facebook and Google ads and Tinder boosts and some other stuff.
- ▶ 31:32 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, meta, Google, Amazon, they all make a lot of money for company from companies advertising Chinese goods.
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 28:59 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, like I, I remember when I had access to Facebook's M, which was an early version of their assistant, which had humans, uh, basically on the other side of it, we asked it to drop pictures all day.
- ▶ 30:03 Brian McCullough Um, web two point O happened because there was so much over build out of K, uh, fiber capacity that it was incredibly cheap for someone to create a Facebook and a dorm room.
- ▶ 30:47 Alex Kantrowitz Other clients include Meta, IBM, and Cohere.
- ▶ 48:18 Alex Kantrowitz Meta's ad sales in Europe, 23% total revenue. 3 times in the scene
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- ▶ 0:11 Alex Kantrowitz We'll discuss it with Meta Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, Jan LeCun.
- ▶ 20:00 Yann LeCun And most of the investment, at least for, from the meta side is investment in, uh, infrastructure for inference. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:34 Yann LeCun We have one at Meta.
- ▶ 33:55 Alex Kantrowitz He is the chief AI scientist at Meta and the Turing award winner that we're thrilled to have on our show.
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 10:30 Reed Albergotti They're like, you know, Meta is, is doing their own AI chip and spending billions of dollars to roll out these data centers.
- ▶ 21:08 Reed Albergotti Like these, which now sort of metas, you know, kind of getting into that game.
- ▶ 22:37 Alex Kantrowitz The only one holding up is, is Meta.
- ▶ 26:58 Alex Kantrowitz Whether that's advertisers, um, from other countries, you know, trying to sell into the U S market and running ads on Facebook, uh, or expanding in the U S and then buying cloud compute here, uh, and in particular, uh, buying, buying cars.
- ▶ 57:01 Reed Albergotti You know, Meta's getting into it reportedly, so there are other people doing it, but I mean, it's a,
The Formula for Capturing Your Attention, Price of Fame, & Algorithms as Editors — With Chris Hayes
- ▶ 10:34 Chris Hayes Same for Meta.
- ▶ 12:46 Alex Kantrowitz Like, Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:25 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so Facebook has, this is from Inc. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:25 Alex Kantrowitz It's just like, we all posted when, when Facebook came out, I know you've been an early internet user, so you've been through this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:58 Alex Kantrowitz And that's why what Apple did to Facebook momentarily was a ten billion dollar blow, and why we're also seeing, when they, when they, when they, they said you can cut off the back end. 2 times in the scene
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 4:13 Saagar Enjeti And even in some of their intro wars with Facebook, uh, what they have shown is that they're willing to pick fights based on their own, like they have a, they have a framework. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:01 Saagar Enjeti It becomes about the United States of America. 3 times in the scene
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
- ▶ 22:20 Alex Kantrowitz Well, he was spending years at Meta, he's been on this show, so that's just how he operates.
- ▶ 23:33 Alex Kantrowitz Once I try to tell you a quick story, once I tried to get, ah, Kevin Wheel to leak me some information from Facebook, I've never been shut down by somebody so quickly in my entire life.
- ▶ 54:54 Ranjan Roy In December, early December of last year, they had hired the former Coinbase CMO who had been at Meta for 11 years and was global head of brand and product marketing for Instagram.
NVIDIA VP Rev Lebaredian Talks Plan To Build AI That Understands The Real World
- ▶ 6:29 Alex Kantrowitz And let me just bring you into a conversation that we had here on the show with Jan LeCun, who's met as a chief AI scientist, really right after ChatGPT came out.
Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
- ▶ 7:24 Reid Hoffman Like for example, in Valley history, uh, DST led around in Facebook when the traditional funds were all like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 Reid Hoffman Well, obviously, Google had a really strong position, as did Amazon, as, as did Facebook, um, but
- ▶ 21:34 Alex Kantrowitz It outperforms Meta's Llama 3.1 and open AI's GPT four.
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 4:58 M.G. Siegler I think Sam Altman tweeted, you know, maybe on Friday, like, about how they were, like, bundling, rejiggering some of the bundles, right, that they have, like, what's in the free offering and stuff, and it sort of feels like we're gonna…
- ▶ 5:27 M.G. Siegler You and I remember that from the old school days of, uh, of Facebook.