Jaeden Schafer

Or I mean, I'm sure there's all sorts of biases embedded, but it's kind of the feeling of the community.

So I think right now, Reddit is putting a lot of investment into AI, particularly in search and advertising, but they're also continuing to make a lot of specific acquisitions.

So

In the last couple of years, they purchased AI and ad tech startups.

They purchased Memorable AI in 2024.

They also had an acquisition for Spell, Spike Trap, Otterloo, Meaning Cloud.

All of those are basically trying to strengthen their machine learning and ad optimization capabilities.

And I think with AI usage obviously exploding, I mean, we all use it more today than we ever have.

And I think that this commerce integration that they're trying to expand right now is really in a perfect position to help their users discover more things, obviously.

But also it's going to become a really sophisticated revenue machine for Reddit, which I think is what they're really focused on right now.

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I'm your host, Jaden Schafer.

Today on the show, I want to talk about a bunch of AI advancements that have been coming out of Google.

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