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every year anyone Alex Kantrowitz 40M.G. Siegler 5Ranjan Roy 2Dan Hendrycks 2Reed Albergotti 1Max Zeff 1Ed Zitron 1
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Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 47:34 M.G. Siegler Now I don't think that Google is going to full on reset and buy like a scale, like company and, and, you know, boot out the old team and bring in this new team.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
- ▶ 37:13 Alex Kantrowitz And my perspective on this was as model training moves into reinforcement learning, where I think Scale AI, where Alexander Wayne came from, said most of their training is reinforcement learning.
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 49:14 Ranjan Roy He's like, and we even got this guy, Alex over here, Alexander Wang, founder of Scale AI, who ran a business that had kind of the dumb people doing the coding, those contractors.
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 15:53 M.G. Siegler Scale AI and bringing in this new team and trying to get up to speed as fast as possible.
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 42:52 Alex Kantrowitz And, um, I will say there's one interesting wrinkle here, which is that, um, do you remember scale AI, Alexander Wang's, uh, company, they told me recently that most of the training that they're doing is reinforcement learning, where you…
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 52:58 M.G. Siegler Yeah, I've swung around a little bit here because when they first sort of announced, um, the scale deal that sort of, you know, what was the effective end of the Lama strategy and, you know, their new, their new path going forward. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 57:28 Ranjan Roy That's the, so there's some poor scale AI guys who have to go through.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 52:54 Alex Kantrowitz My thought here is that, um, ironically, I got this from Scale AI, Wayne's former company, that most model training has moved from pre-training to reinforcement learning. 2 times in the scene
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 28:43 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, we just, I just did the story for, uh, with about scale AI saying that the majority of their training has moved to reinforcement learning where they train models to act in specific environments like filling out forms, and then they…
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 40:22 Alex Kantrowitz Like with scale.
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 18:13 M.G. Siegler But, and I, and I wrote about this a little bit when sort of the, the news was first coming out after the scale AI acquisition about what they were trying to build with the super intelligence labs.
- ▶ 32:50 Alex Kantrowitz NVIDIA owns stakes in OpenAI, XAI, Mistral, Perplexity, Cohere, Scale AI, 2 times in the scene
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 46:56 Ed Zitron Yeah, that worked out for scale.
- ▶ 1:03:36 Alex Kantrowitz And I think maybe that's why you see the scale acquisition from Meta. 2 times in the scene
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 6:10 unnamed speaker Again, we saw it with scale AI and just buying out Alexander Wang and like, uh, you know, the, all of the work and value created by this company that was actually scale AI, a critical part of building the models that power this first wave… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 unnamed speaker Is scale AI, was it really not worth that much? 4 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…
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 35:44 Alex Kantrowitz And this week, last week, we had the fourteen billion dollar acquisition of Alexander Wang, uh, and the scale AI, I don't know, leadership, talent, crew. 3 times in the scene
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 26:56 Alex Kantrowitz Meta is making a very big investment in scale AI. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:41 Alex Kantrowitz Let me ask you one more question about this scale thing before we move on to Meta. 4 times in the scene
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 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. 2 times in the scene
AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
- ▶ 0:17 Alex Kantrowitz He's the director of the Center for AI Policy and also an advisor to Elon Musk's XAI and Scale AI.
- ▶ 18:43 Alex Kantrowitz You're an advisor to Scalii. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so I'm curious what you think, whether you think that's right, because you're obviously working with these companies, working with XAI, you're working with scale.
- ▶ 47:20 Alex Kantrowitz I don't know, not the former, the current CEO of ScaleAI, who's been formally on this show.
- ▶ 1:05:45 Dan Hendrycks Um, um, at Scale, I've, uh, at Scale AI, I've increased my salary exponentially to where I get 12 dollars a year, a dollar per month from Scale. 2 times in the scene
AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Scale AI founder and CEO Alexander Wang joins us to predict where AI is heading in 2025, looking at everything from geopolitics to AI agents. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 Alex Kantrowitz All right, we're here with Alexander Wang, CEO and co-founder of Scale AI, a fourteen billion dollar company, um, that works with others to help generate AI data, AI data for them, and also, uh, help them scale their AI solutions. 2 times in the scene