Gio (Giovanni)

CTO, AppLovin · 1 appearance on the record.

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Xiaochuan "Giovanni" Ge is the Chief Technology Officer at AppLovin, having previously served as its Chief Product and Engineering Officer. He is the lead architect of Axon 2, the company's AI-powered advertising recommendation engine.

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Insight

Gio: Wasteful ideas and bad taste offset AI's productivity gains

“I think a big, big mistake that people are making is that because of the AI, building things become easier. People are making a lot of bad decisions, bad tastes, wasteful ideas that actually offset the empowerment of AI.”

Gio (Giovanni) Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 52:07 Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine

Disclosure

AppLovin strictly holds engineers accountable for any AI-generated code decisions

“You can use AI however you want. But in the end of the day, you as a human is held accountable for every decision that your AI made for you. So it is absolutely not acceptable when I come to an engineer and say, hey, why you did, why you implemented this syste…”

Gio (Giovanni) Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 37:53 Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine

Disclosure

Gio: AppLovin is developing fully automated AI ad creative generation

“We have to create a tool that can fully automate everything. The other choice is you just create a tool that allows advertisers to interact with, to allow them to collaborate with the AI tool to create their own content. So right now we see that the second typ…”

Gio (Giovanni) Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 46:26 Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine

Insight

Ge: Neural network ad models run far more efficiently on modern GPUs than decision trees

“The neural network, the benefit of neural network is, it's made up of a lot of standard GMM, general matrix multiplication, which, you know, is a famous, the GPU. GPU is highly optimized for this kind of operation. But the selection tree, you know, the old gen…”

Gio (Giovanni) Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 16:42 Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine	Aug 14, 2026	26m

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