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…And Google once was very open and now that some of their stuff is closed, Facebook meta tends to be more open.…

…We saw this with Meta.…

…peaker D: situation like Meta when they were in the metaverse and uh, sold off pretty hard because there was so much Capex and then woke up.…

…I think it's sort of people are trained on Roas, specifically when they're spending on paid platforms like Google Ads, meta ads.…

…Something that Meta started pushing on last year, right?…

…She has a career that spans leadership roles at MGOMD and Meta, and also is a strong voice in diversity and equity initiatives.…

…All of our partners have adopted it, so the likes of your Google, your Microsoft, your META, everyone is using AI to help with consumer behaviour, customer insights, everything about to do with targeting.…

…Nobody creates an account on Reddit or Meta with a work email, you get like a 2%, 10% hatch rate.…

…peaker B: Meta is considering doing a very similar deal.…

…And then I worked at Meta at the corporate office in Menlo park and I was doing exec and leadership recruiting there mostly on like the analytics side, data engineering and data engine, uh, staffing for VPs and their directors.…

…Ari was a former researcher at DeepMind and Meta, now runs a really exciting AI startup.…

…Whether that's the big players such as Meta, TikTok and Microsoft or the more niche platforms like Reddit and Pinterest.…

…I think it's going to be really interesting to see what companies like Meta, who have had their commitment to diversity for longer than the last, uh, four or five years, how they are going to manage the new top.…

…Meta is guiding for 115 to 135 billion.…

…Deloitte, Accenture, Meta some of the world's most fascinating companies like you, but Now I've decided just we're at a moment that I think the Runway is getting shorter for organizations to get this right with AI, and I think we're at risk of…

…Amazon, Meta, negative cash flow for the first time.…

…So the first thing to say is if you don't have a way to create something within the AI environment that OpenAI or anthropic or Google or Meta can't take away from you by getting some engineers, don't, you know, don't, don't, just don't.…

…And over the last seven, eight years, Google, Meta and most of the ad tech platforms have created a lot of tools.…

…And then you got meta on top of that, who've decided, oh, we won't crack track your keystrokes and everything by AI to train our machines because there was such an uproar.…

…Another such example is actually the Metaverse.…

…peaker A: Did you uh, did you see the kind of switch in communication that uh, happened at uh, Airbnb? Uh, and also like other, other people, like Meta with like uh, the Zuck going a lot more in front of camera with his new look, the gold chain.…

…So when people like Jack Dorsey and Meta and all the people who say that they're going to cut people because they're more efficient with AI, this doesn't pass the test of reasonableness because what companies are trying to do, if you, if you, uh, if you're…

…I'm Despina Katsakakis, your host and I am delighted to have with me today Rob Cookson, Vice president of global real estate and facilities at Meta.…

…where's Where, What actually happened in seven day window Cloud Flare, Fidelity, Coinbase, Freshworks, Meta, Microsoft.…

…We talked about that recently on an episode just a few weeks ago, and the notion of, in a lot of ways, The US has kind of walked away from open models to some degree, you know, Meta you know, with Meta walking away, they're they're now going entirely closed, and that was kinda leading The US contingent.…

…Meta, they're on the bandwagon now, billions again going into AI, and even Intel, you know, Intel have started working with Google and with Elon Musk in the the Terrafab chip project, which again, if if you look into what's…

…And now you're at Meta.…

…Today on the podcast, Meta is changing its mind on reassigning thousands of its employees to AI training.…

…We've made many, uh, many big changes over there and we've seen some huge results off the back of the changes we've made in both their meta and their Google accounts.…

…So we have a team coming up from California, from Meta to really deep dive into a recent paper related I think to Pytorch, um, but then also on the flip side, one of our research associates that's wrapping up their term under the Future Forged fellowship program, which was…

…I feel like there was a period that's maybe quietened down a little bit, but a couple of years ago, you know, as everything was going to be the metaverse at the time, there was a lot of putting distro avatars into everything where there wasn't necessarily a clear use case.…

…You can have a Facebook or a meta pixel on there and you can retarget those people through meta.…

…That's what Facebook Meta have spent on the Metaverse in the last five years.…

…rate, then we have to re-optimize towards the new target and fine, it's easier to increase that than decrease that, but you're still shooting for a different number when you've already trained Meta or Google to go after customers at a specific value.…