State Of The AI Wars, Google's Counterpunch, Elon's 4/20

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nico Grant of The New York Times joins Ranjan Roy and Alex Kantrowitz for our weekly news recap show. We cover: 1) The state of the AI war between Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI 2) Google's AI reorganization and what it means 3) Sundar Pichai's PR offensive 4) Google's forthcoming product counterpunch 5) How finances factor in to the companies' decision 6) Where we are on the innovation curve 7) The forthcoming multimodal models 8) Who wins 9) Elon's rough 4/20 10) The end of BuzzFeed News and the end of fun online 11) Some optimism about the future --- 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: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:05.1	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
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0:11.9	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.7	Thank you. or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Big Technology Podcasts,
0:32.6	where we break down the news
0:33.6	in our typical cool-headed and nuance format today.
0:36.9	This week, we are going to get deep
0:38.9	into the AI war between Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and who else? Maybe Facebook's in it. Maybe
0:44.6	Amazon's in it. Who knows? We're going to break it down with one of the leading experts on this
0:50.5	world, an all-star reporter at the New York Times, Nico Grant, is here with us. He's been
0:55.9	deep in the story and had a bunch of eye-raising articles that have definitely caught my attention
1:02.5	and caught many others' attention, including the one about Sundar declaring a code read inside Google.
1:09.3	So without further ado, welcome, Nico, to the show.
1:12.4	Thank you so much for having me.
1:14.5	Thanks for being here.
1:16.2	Let's, why don't we just, oh, and we're sorry.
1:18.5	Got to introduce Ron.
1:18.9	You forgot about me, Alex?
1:21.4	Yes.
1:23.7	We're also joined by Ron John Roy.
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