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@PranavDixit
Meta Correspondent @BusinessInsider. Previously: India Tech Correspondent @BuzzFeedNews. 2022 Nieman Fellow. Accidental expat. Signal: pranavdixit.04
🚨 Some news: I’m excited to join @BusinessInsider this January as Meta Correspondent! It’s a fascinating time to cover Meta as it pursues generative AI with Llama, doubles down on Threads, and advances its mixed-reality ambitions, even as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp…
Meta employees, I'd love to do a bit of a vibe check -- completely anonymously -- for a story. My Signal is +1408-905-9124. Ping me, please?
Here's the story about this that I broke for @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/meta-anthropic…
Wow.
Scoop: OpenAI is planning to launch a Google Chrome competitor within weeks. The browser includes a chat interface that would help keep users from having to click through to external links, sources tell @Reuters. from @readkrystalhu @annatonger and me: reuters.com/business/media…
After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏. When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me…
I retrofitted Apple CarPlay in my Mazda 6 over the long weekend, and I feel incredibly accomplished.
"If this team delivers disproportionately, we all benefit via stocks," one Meta engineer told me about the company's Superintelligence hires. New from me and Amanda Hoover: Big Tech is shifting: outsize pay for a few, growing uncertainty for everyone else. businessinsider.com/silicon-valley…
Meta may be paying millions to lure top AI talent, but how much is it paying the rest of its workforce, including engineers and product managers? @meliarobin, @nicollsanddimes, and I dug into the company's latest H1-B filings to find out. businessinsider.com/meta-salaries-…
The fact that some AI researcher, probably in their late 20s or early 30s, is making $100M in their first year on the job is insane. For reference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made $79M last year.
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers. wired.com/story/mark-zuc…
Every single one of the 11 Meta superintelligence hires is an immigrant who did their undergrad abroad. 7 China, 1 India, 1 Australia, 1 UK, 1 South Africa. 8 are PhD or PhD dropouts in the US. Immigration is key to US AI innovation.
Meta's Threads finally has DMs — nearly two years after launch. I spoke to Head of Product @edaltonsmith about why it took so long, what’s next, and whether private messaging changes the vibe. businessinsider.com/meta-threads-l…
🚨 Scoop with @HughLangley: Mark Zuckerberg just announced a major reorg of Meta’s AI efforts. An internal memo we got lays out plans for a new “Superintelligence” lab, key hires from OpenAI and Google, and what’s next for Llama. Read the full memo here. businessinsider.com/meta-ceo-mark-…
BREAKING: Scale AI routinely uses *fully public* Google Docs for confidential work with Google, Meta, and xAI. The docs also expose thousands of contractors' personal data, including who's suspected of 'cheating' Major cyber risk, experts tell @BusinessInsider
New: Meta’s biggest AI chatbot rivals ChatGPT and Perplexity are competing for attention inside WhatsApp, the app where Meta AI is used the most. businessinsider.com/meta-ai-compet…
Scoop: Meta had acquisition conversations with Perplexity last month. Talks fell through and Perplexity raised at a $14B valuation. Meta invested that amount in Scale.AI instead bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @markgurman @rileyraygriffin
In case anyone missed my scoop from last week: Meta is turning to AI models from rivals like Anthropic to help its engineers code better. businessinsider.com/meta-anthropic…
Outside of Google is there any large company NOT using Sonnet as their primary model for coding? Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…
🚨New: WhatsApp is rolling out ads and paid subscriptions, its biggest monetization push yet. The app that once swore off ads is now opening the door to creators, signaling a new phase in Meta’s plan to make messaging a real business. businessinsider.com/whatsapp-updat…
