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Teller: Alphabet's X is not structured to scale products to billions
“We are not the right place to move something from, yeah, we have something special here to it's ready in a really thoughtful, responsible way to serve a billion people a day.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 32:09 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
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Teller: More than half of X's current projects target climate change
“More than half of what we're doing right now is in the climate change space, but not because I mandated that, but because that's what people were excited about”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 40:29 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
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Teller: Alphabet X shut down Project Foghorn over $15-per-gallon floor
“This project was called Foghorn. Like, that felt like a real save the world moment. It was actually working. And we could not convince ourselves we were going to get it cheaper than about 15 dollars gallon of gas equivalent. And that's just not going to save t…”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 55:48 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
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Teller: Alphabet's X lab has tried roughly 30 education moonshots
“I'll give you another one. That's sort of like that education. Like I will consider it a failure if X doesn't eventually have a great moonshot in the education space. We've tried like 30 things. It, it's so painful.”
Astro Teller Jun 29, 2023 ▶ 51:19 Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
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