Kevin Roose

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381 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6 Aug

Kevin Roose’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Search Engine · Cocomelon For Adults · 10 Oct 2025 podcast

We are launching AI slot videos marketed as personalized ads. voice-verified

And he's got a point there, right? voice-verified

And Altman actually responds and says, I get the vibe here, but we do mostly need the capital for build AI. voice-verified

I assume he meant for building AI that can do science. voice-verified

And for sure, we are focused on AGI with almost all of our research effort. voice-verified

It is also nice to voice-verified

To show people cool new tech slash products along the way, make them smile, and hopefully make some money given all that compute need. voice-verified

So that was really interesting to me because it was an acknowledgement of the fact that this is a money-making enterprise. voice-verified

And in part, it is a money-making enterprise that is going to be designed to subsidize the absolutely enormous cost of running Open AI. voice-verified

The idea is find ways to generate revenue now that help to offset some of your losses across the rest of your business. voice-verified

And here's where we can talk about one of the most interesting and underdiscussed phenomenon that we've seen at one of these companies recently, which is what I think of as the Facebook efication of open AI. voice-verified

So when OpenAI gets started, it really is mostly a research lab. voice-verified

You have some startup people in there, like Sam Altman, who used to run by Combinator, was just sort of like deeply enmeshed in the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. voice-verified

But it's a lot of sort of big brains who are trying to figure out how do you build large language models that can do everything ChatGPT does today. voice-verified

Over time, though, OpenAI, in addition to being this brainy research lab, also becomes one of the hottest. voice-verified

Startups in Silicon Valley, maybe the hottest one. voice-verified

And they start to attract a lot of talent from other big companies, including Meta. voice-verified

Recently, OpenAI hired a woman named Fiji Simo to be what they call their CEO of applications. voice-verified

So in charge of running the various apps that the company has, which now include ChatGPT and Sora. voice-verified

Fiji Simo came from Instacart, where she was the CEO, but previously she had spent almost her entire career at what was then called Facebook. voice-verified

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