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Today, Explained

$250 million to work for Meta

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Meta Mark is going all-out to put his superintelligence lab on superdrive. What is superintelligence, you ask? This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey with help from Denise Guerra, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Matthew Billy, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, showing off a prototype of computer glasses. Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.5

Here is a big existential question for every media company today.

0:42.7

Do they fight the AI tech overlords or do they just take their money?

0:47.4

So far, most of them are taking the money.

0:50.1

But a few are fighting.

0:51.6

One of them is Zip Davis.

0:54.1

This is Peter Kafka, the host of channels.

0:56.7

And on this week's episode, I'm talking to Zip Davis, CEO of Vek Shah, who tells me he's

1:01.0

kind of optimistic about the media business and why he's taking on the people behind ChatGBT.

1:06.4

That's this week on channels, wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

1:11.7

How much would Mark Zuckerberg have to pay you for you to want to go work for him over at Meta?

1:18.5

Maybe it's your dream job, so let's say just like 100K.

1:21.8

Maybe you hate Mark with every fiber of your being, so you'd ask for like 10 million.

1:27.1

But if you could sell him on your super intelligence, he might offer you $250 million.

1:35.3

Superintelligence was something that could invent a fusion reactor that humans didn't even understand

1:41.3

or figure out how to do faster than light travel.

1:43.3

And so people here in Silicon Valley started to get really excited and started to spend a lot of money

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