Metas

Surviving Meta’s ‘Year of Intensity’

Business Insider’s Pranav Dixit has been covering Meta for a year now. He recently reported on the company’s “year of intensity” with colleague Jyoti Mann. I asked Pranav for his take on a turbulent 12 months.Q: You’ve been covering Meta for a year now. What has that been like?”Intense” is…

The Godfather of Meta’s AI Thinks the AI Boom Is a Dead End

The biggest companies in the world are spending billions and billions on AI — specifically on “large language models” like the kind that power the likes of ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama.That’s a mistake, says the man who, until recently, headed Meta’s AI push.”LLMs are great, they’re useful, we…

Creators Built Meta’s  Billion Reels Business. Where’s Their Cut?

Remember when Reels was dismissed as Meta’s attempt to clone TikTok?Well, now the five-year-old app is on track to generate $50 billion a year. It’s turned into a huge win for Meta, and it has become one of the biggest “creator economy” businesses in the world.But that number also makes…