Microsoft & OpenAI Visit Davos, Is The Vision Pro Dead On Arrival, Google Makes More Cuts

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Satya Nadella on the state of Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI 2) Satya Nadella on OpenAI’s governance 3) Sam Altman on OpenAI’s potential for a big breakthrough this year 4) Altman on whether AI will replace jobs 5) How Generative AI will factor in politics this year, and whether it will actually be a big problem 6) The threat of video deepfakes 7) HeyGen’s translation of Argentina president Javier Milei’s speech 8) Google's latest layoffs 9) Does Google have a worsening culture problem? 10) Meta buying 350,000 NVIDIA h100 chips. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's recap and react to the big AI conversations at Davos.
0:05.3	Plenty of news items this week also have us asking whether the Vision Pro is dead on arrival.
0:11.0	Google is making more cuts and meta has bought a boatload of Nvidia chips.
0:16.3	All that and more coming up right after this.
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0:50.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:58.2	We have so much to talk about this week, including plenty of updates from Davos, where it seems like everybody gathered.
1:05.4	And then real product news from Apple and corporate news from Google and Facebook just buying up every
1:12.5	Nvidia chip in the world.
1:14.1	Joining us, as always, here on Fridays is Ron John Roy, who writes margins on Substack.
1:18.7	Ron John, welcome.
1:20.3	Alex, are you in Brooklyn or are you in Davos right now?
1:24.4	Honestly, the best thing about YouTube is that you can literally sit in on every single
1:29.4	conversation from Davos and you don't need to go. And I've been there. All right, Alan, I have to drop it.
1:35.6	This is where Alex is going to say I have been to Davos. I, Ranjan, have not been to Davos,
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