Meta has just made a massive acquisition of an AI startup called Waveform.

Today on the podcast, I want to talk a little bit about the state of basically meta acquiring

these audio companies where I think this is going in the future, what's happening to Waveform,

how much they've raised.

All of that is a really fascinating story as it feels like meta is just on an absolute tear

to go scorchedoth on basically all

AI researchers that exist on the planet is their target audience.

So let's get into all of this.

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All right, let's get into everything that meta is doing. So Zuckerberg obviously is notorious right

now as he's basically offering like for some AI researchers, billion dollar pay packages

that vest over like four years.

These are various serious amounts of money.

Some people are saying, oh, it's just all stock.

A ton of this is actually cash, hundreds of millions of dollars.

And yeah, the top one we've heard of is over a billion dollars to try to woo some of the top

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