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8/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025 by Gary Rivlin (Author)

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

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8/8: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence Hardcover – March 25, 2025
by  Gary Rivlin  (Author)
1886 JULES VERNE

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0:35.0

I'm John Batchel with Gary Rivlin, who is very generous to help me understand his new book,

0:40.4

AI Valley, Microsoft Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash in on artificial intelligence.

0:42.6

This is not a series of algorithms.

0:45.8

This does not require you to know how to code.

0:47.0

These are personalities.

0:48.8

They're very important personalities.

0:51.9

And Mark Zuckerberg now enters the stage.

0:53.8

Where is meta? Did they go wrong? What have they got, Gary?

0:58.0

Well, you know, meta, they were really early on. They were just behind Google in jumping on

1:05.5

machine learning. This dates back to the early 2010s. And they too suffered the same problem. You know, the innovator's

1:12.3

dilemma, as it's called, that, you know, they could create cutting edge models within the

1:18.4

company, but then they're scared to release it because it, what it might do, you know, to their

1:22.6

existing revenues. And so, you know, Meta, right before Chat Chapti came out, they had a rival. They put it out

1:31.3

for a day or two. They didn't like some of those things that said, so they just pulled it. So,

1:36.3

MET did something, Zuckerberg said something really, really smart at the beginning of 2020. Like,

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