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In Machines we Trust

Reddit's AI Answers & Meta's Vibes App

In Machines we Trust

In Machines we Trust

Technology

4.36 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore how social media giants Reddit and Meta are leveraging AI to reshape user experience and create new revenue streams. We examine Reddit's pivot towards AI-powered search for personalized answers and Meta's new standalone AI video app, Vibes, and its potential for monetization through premium features.


Chapters
00:00 AIbox Announces New Tier
01:16 Reddit's AI-Powered Search
06:30 Reddit Content Licensing Growth
10:39 Meta Launches AI Video App Vibes
15:29 AI & Social Media Monetization
18:35 AIbox Call to Action


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Social media companies are no longer treating AI like it's a side feature.

0:04.9

I think more and more we're seeing that they're kind of positioning it as a core way

0:08.5

that users are going to either discover content and then eventually how platforms are

0:12.8

actually going to make money.

0:14.1

Today on the show, I want to talk about some new things coming out of meta.

0:17.6

They're testing a standalone app for AI video generated content, and also

0:22.3

Reddit, who is looking to AI search as kind of their next moneymaking monetization method,

0:28.0

which is really interesting. Before we get into all of that, I want to say some really exciting

0:32.1

news out of my own startup, AIbox.ai. We've just launched a $9 a month tier. So on AIbox.AI, we have a playground that

0:40.5

gives you access to over 40 of the top AI models from Anthropic and Google and meta,

0:45.3

mistral, open AI, perplexity, XAI. There's a bunch of really cool image generators like

0:49.7

ideogram, open AI, and Black Forest Labs. And then, of course, 11 labs for audio. So you get all of that

0:55.1

for $9 a month. You get access to all of those different models, and you can compare the results side by side in a chat thread. So the thing I love about it is it's one place that I can go to for all of my AI chats. I don't have to remember, you know, was I having this conversation with Anthropic or with OpenAI or Gemini, because I use all of them for different things.

1:13.3

So if you want to consolidate and keep all of your AI chats in one place, go check out AIbox.a.i and check out our brand new $9 a month tier that we have just launched. All right, let's get into what's going on with AI and social media. So Reddit has just made a really

1:28.9

interesting case. They were talking on Thursday to their investors, and they said that AI-powered

1:34.2

search could become one of the most important long-term revenue opportunities for Reddit,

1:39.0

which is interesting. This was during their fourth quarter earnings call. So all of the executives

1:44.0

over at Reddit were,

1:45.4

I think, really actively kind of merging their traditional search experience with generative AI

1:50.1

search. But they suggested that while search wasn't yet monetized, that there was a huge

1:55.4

opportunity there, which I think is interesting, right? I mean, we see Google obviously monetizing

1:59.8

search, but they've been doing that for years. And so AI in search isn't anything new. We see perplexity as kind of a big

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