Big Tech War Stories

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bigtechnology.com For years, Siri co-founder Norman Winarsky asked his Stanford classes whether he and his colleagues made the right decision selling their voice bot to Apple. The investor, entrepreneur, and lecturer told me he leaned toward staying independent and IPO. But there was risk operating alone without a deep integration i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bigtechnology.com Walt Mossberg is a legendary tech journalist and longtime columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Mossberg joins Big Tech War Stories to discuss how he formed connections with industry titans like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, and what drove their thinking and strategies. Tune in to hear revealing stories...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bigtechnology.com Ahmad Al-Dahle is Meta's VP of generative AI. He joins Big Tech War Stories to disucss how the company built its Llama 3 model, releasing today. Training Llama 3 took ten times more data, one hundred times more computing resources, and personality tweaks to make it more willing to answer questions it otherwise woul...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bigtechnology.com Google made $31 billion running ads across the web last year, capitalizing on a tech footprint that touches nearly every web page on the internet. The company’s ad server and ad exchange are ubiquitous, behind-the-scenes technology that helps websites make money, and it all dates back to its 2007 acquisition of Dou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bigtechnology.com By now you know about Facebook’s role in politics but how did it get there. And why is it now backing away.  Today, on Big Tech War Stories, we take you deep inside the company, on the ground with someone who spent 10 years on Facebook’s policy team — including running its elections unit — to discuss how Facebook h...

Google had an equal — and perhaps better — version of ChatGPT working inside its company before OpenAI released its bot to the world. But it never shipped.  So why didn’t Google ship it? Gaurav Nemade, the bot’s first product manager, shares what happened on our new Big Tech War Stories podcast. This is the show’s first-ever episode —available to premium Big Technology subscribers — and we’re debu...

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