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What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- ▶ 8:46 Alex Kantrowitz So is there a difference between, I mean, I think Facebook has even studied this as well.
- ▶ 36:33 Jinja Birkenbuehl I mean, you know, my clients, I used, I did a lot of work for Google, Facebook, and I did a lot of work in the communities in the United States helping small businesses understand how to use tools to make money, and I learned a lot in that…
AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 0:30 Alex Kantrowitz It creates data that powers LLMs from OpenAI, Meta, and other big companies.
- ▶ 3:40 Alex Kantrowitz There's a series of AI models that U S companies like open AI, Google, Amazon meta are building.
- ▶ 11:05 Alex Kantrowitz In fact, uh, Meta's model, the Lama model, which is a open source model that they have developed and released.
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 23:38 Alex Kantrowitz Because he has less of a like Facebook, you know, tried to make me lose the election. 2 times in the scene
Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 49:50 Alex Kantrowitz Like we've seen like blue Facebook, at least in the US start to lose a lot of interest.
- ▶ 50:43 Alex Kantrowitz Meta has a great pair out with the Ray bands and Apple has been beaten to the punch here. 2 times in the scene
The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
- ▶ 9:35 Alex Kantrowitz So just for some context, so Meta's, uh, Lama three model, uh, which was like state of the art, like 10 minutes ago, it used 16,000 GPUs to train that one.
- ▶ 47:39 Aidan Gomez The guy who created RAG, uh, when he was at Meta is Patrick Lewis, and he leads our RAG efforts.
The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Two all-star stock watchers join us to talk about Apple's fascinating state of affairs, plus plenty more on Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, and others.
- ▶ 15:29 Dan Ives I eventually think Meta Google are going to have to make the same move.
- ▶ 32:15 Dan Ives Like, I remember when Meta, and there's, like, a lot of people, like, revisionists, like, oh, I like the stock now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:22 Stephanie Link And I think you're going to see a CAGR of about 20% for the next five years at this company versus Meta at 13% and versus Google at 12.8%.
Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- ▶ 2:00 Alex Kantrowitz And this is manifesting itself in trillions of dollars being thrown at, of course, the companies that are doing all this automation and behind all this AI, Facebook, Google, Uber, Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, the list goes on.
- ▶ 25:37 Alex Kantrowitz They were working for like Google and Facebook at the same time, so.
- ▶ 1:02:01 Josh Brown Uh, Meta looks outstanding right now. 5 times in the scene
Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
- ▶ 0:31 Alex Kantrowitz Boz, as he's known, the Chief Technology Officer of Meta.
- ▶ 1:21 Alex Kantrowitz So you've had the, and this is a 10 year project within Meta, but it looks like from what I saw with your team, that this is something that has really come a long way, even in the past year.
- ▶ 7:20 Andrew Bosworth Having, I've had meta AI on my phone for a while as an employee of the company.
- ▶ 9:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so why does, why is it important for Meta to do this? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 Andrew Bosworth Well, anything that has to do with, you know, keep in mind on the web, Facebook was a, had a major games platform, um, you know, which we were not allowed to bring to the iOS.
- ▶ 25:20 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back on Big Technology Podcast here with Boz, Andrew Bosworth, the Chief Technology Officer of Meta.
- ▶ 36:28 Alex Kantrowitz Obviously you guys are 7 times in the scene
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 12:35 Alex Kantrowitz Do you think Meta is a threat to ChatGPT? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:35 Alex Kantrowitz So I'm guessing that the meta AI usage, and you can only imagine on Facebook and the average Facebook user ending up in some weird rabbit hole of generative AI accidentally.
Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
- ▶ 28:37 Alex Kantrowitz It could be Facebook's Lambda or Amazon proprietary models or any host of other models, and then they could build that way.
- ▶ 41:28 Matt Wood I think that, you know, Anthropic will be one, Meta will be one, Amazon will be one, there'll be, there'll be others.
What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
- ▶ 19:16 Lawrence "Larry" Lessig You know, I first got into this space of whistleblowing protection, helping Francis Haugen, um, who was the Facebook whistleblower. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:20 Lawrence "Larry" Lessig So that again, like we saw with Facebook, a lot of complaints were made to save Facebook about the safety or the lack of safety of their product and the company didn't do anything about it.
- ▶ 44:17 Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Number one, number two, you know, again, inside of Facebook, of course there were people inside of Facebook who said, I don't care what we're doing. 2 times in the scene
Decoding the NVIDIA Trade - With Michael Batnick
- ▶ 15:03 Michael Batnick Like how much is Facebook going to spend?
- ▶ 17:14 Alex Kantrowitz So Meta, as Meta, which said this year, it's going to go from 350 to 650,000 NVIDIA H 100 GPUs or equivalent, which is an incredible increase, right? 4 times in the scene
Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
- ▶ 15:50 Aaron Levie And then Meta one day, you know, decides to just exceed all the benchmarks with Llama three.
- ▶ 25:58 Alex Kantrowitz The market is early and up for grabs, and there will be multiple winners, and it uniquely leverages the strengths of Meta. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:32 Aaron Levie So I don't know if anybody was around in like the mid to late 2000, uh, doing web stuff, uh, but you had this conference called F eight and, and sort of Facebook was at the center of basically, you know, web software in, in sort of the…
AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- ▶ 0:26 Alex Kantrowitz The OpenAI Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, and recently met a CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
- ▶ 10:06 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, how should we think about the efforts of deep mind versus meta versus anthropic versus open AI?
- ▶ 22:41 Alex Kantrowitz And by the way, this is meta, the company that owns Facebook, which has like the entire social internet to train on.
- ▶ 56:39 Dwarkesh Patel Potentially, but I think it'll honestly be better than what they're currently doing, which is YouTube and TikTok and Twitter, you know, Facebook and so forth.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 1:17:13 Alex Kantrowitz How do you think Meta's handling this? 10 times in the scene
AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
- ▶ 1:01 Alex Kantrowitz And they're talking about whether we're going to hit a wall with LLMs, because if you think about LLAMA three, which Meta just released, which we just talked about, uh, it trained with 10 times more data and a hundred times more compute.
- ▶ 9:07 Alex Kantrowitz Um, internally at Meta, they were saying, if we don't get more data, we're never going to catch up with chat GPT and even started to consider buying, uh, Simon and Schuster or spending 10 dollars a book to get the data necessary to train. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Swami Sivasubramanian And other foundational models as well, like Anthropic, and Meta, Mistral, Cohere, and Stability, AI-I-I-I and others.
- ▶ 34:01 Swami Sivasubramanian Um, so, well, we are big supporters of, ah, actually, ah, enabling, ah, access to these models and, ah, ah, I mean, companies like, ah, Meta and, ah, Mistral have been
Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- ▶ 1:39 Alex Kantrowitz And so I think that most of social media today, they would argue, like the big companies would argue, Facebook would argue, we're connecting people as well.
- ▶ 14:22 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, even Facebook's own research shows that passive media consumption leaves people worse off.
Meta's Generative AI Head: How We Trained Llama 3
- ▶ 6:24 Alex Kantrowitz So this is coming from Meta's own publication. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:18 Meta's Generative AI Head And one of the amazing things about our approach at Meta is we're, we're very open.
- ▶ 10:45 Alex Kantrowitz And that, uh, Meta could not match ChatGPT unless it gets more data.
- ▶ 12:50 Alex Kantrowitz I think that was something that meta has sort of assessed internally and you wanted to make Lama three a little bit more willing to answer questions and have less, I think it's called false rejections. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:10 Meta's Generative AI Head And one of the things that we do, we have to partner very closely with the, um, different app, app teams, application teams like WhatsApp and Instagram and Facebook.
- ▶ 23:08 Alex Kantrowitz Is it going to end up living more prominently within messenger and WhatsApp?
- ▶ 23:49 Meta's Generative AI Head How we do things at Meta is we iterate.
- ▶ 29:54 Alex Kantrowitz Well, I want to talk about some of like the long-term vision in terms of, I mean, Meta's stated goal now, I think for a while has been to build artificial general intelligence or intelligence on par with human intelligence. 2 times in the scene
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 6:55 Kara Swisher He's on the board of Facebook, I guess.
- ▶ 14:53 Alex Kantrowitz Clearly he was seeing that use of the blue app was fading. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Alex Kantrowitz I think getting out of news is a good thing, like the messaging of news and Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:44 Kara Swisher and she's like, come on Facebook Live.
Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
- ▶ 7:54 Marissa Mayer Sunshine Contacts today is the highest rated app in the App Store for contact management, and we think it's the best, obviously, but it does a great job taking your contacts, deduplicating them, updating them, enriching them, so we find… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 Alex Kantrowitz Google or Facebook or, you know, you name it, we'll copy it and, or, you know, we'll copy it and bake it into their products.
- ▶ 42:45 Marissa Mayer Um, Facebook did that really successfully with Instagram, right?
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
- ▶ 6:34 Jim Lanzone Um, but not to compare ourselves to Facebook or Google or, or something much larger.
- ▶ 13:01 Jim Lanzone And then, uh, my new head of PR who came from Lyft and Facebook and the go to market then becomes the story in the back half of the year after we bring all the new products to market.
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 21:23 Alex Kantrowitz And like the meta has those glasses where like, you're not, you don't have an overlay right now, uh, but you can talk to things, uh, to their AI bot and it will look at the world and then give you a sense as to like what you're looking at,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:56 Alex Kantrowitz But you ask the meta folks, and they would say that actually, uh, that process of generating these videos is actually limited, and doesn't achieve what the AI research community is trying to achieve.
- ▶ 48:05 Alex Kantrowitz Another thing that you said, let's go to meta. 4 times in the scene
NVIDIA's Artifical Intelligence Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
- ▶ 3:44 Alex Kantrowitz Facebook has 350,000 of them by the end of the year.
- ▶ 21:57 Bryan Catanzaro And, and we've had this initiative called the omniverse, uh, long before, uh, uh, meta renamed itself. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:10 Alex Kantrowitz And that's where we had Facebook really take the lead as the public spokesperson for this stuff, talking about, uh, image recognition. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:17 Alex Kantrowitz And they even built this, um, fake generative chat bot called M that I had access to that basically would be like, it's supposed to be a large language model.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- ▶ 23:36 Aravind Srinivas Like, why should a research lab like OpenAI be able to create a better chatbot than Google that has, like, so much more data or, like, Meta that has so much more chat data? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:11 Aravind Srinivas Like, Meta is going to have their own AI assistant that's barred.
Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
- ▶ 0:01 Alex Kantrowitz The head of Meta's AI Research Division joins us today to discuss the company's pursuit of human level artificial intelligence, the cutting edge of AI, why it's open sourcing, its large language models, and plenty more, and the only… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:55 Alex Kantrowitz But the talk from Meta now is actually focused on some of the more big ideas that people might have thought were more long-term, but now is actually seems like 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:53 Alex Kantrowitz Now we talked a little bit about why that is now relevant, the path towards general intelligence, but now I'm kind of left with another question, which is why does Meta need to build general intelligence in order to build the products that… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:16 Alex Kantrowitz Is there anything, is there anything stand out that you've seen being built on top of, uh, the open source Lama model that Meta has put out there?
- ▶ 32:07 Alex Kantrowitz We're here with Joel Pina, the head of Meta's AI Research Division, still called FAIR, Fundamental AI Research. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:26 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, it's one thing to sort of type in, draw me a picture and you get one out from Dolly or, or meta has one, an image generator as well, but the video generation seems pretty wild. 7 times in the scene