Short answer: Sam Nadler says Google has more places to put AI in front of users, in Docs, Gmail and search, than OpenAI, which will help it close the gap. Jordan Metzner says Meta could see similar adoption.
Watch this answer from Episode 5 (starts at 11:41) · Episode 5 notes and transcript
From Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate, starting at 11:41.
Sam Nadler [11:41]: I mean, I think it just shows the power of Google. I mean, we talked about a tool on our first episode called Granola that, creates a seamless tool for recording me meeting minutes. And now Google, layered it into Google Meets, and 50,000,000 people are using it. And, both you and I are pretty AI forward. I don't maybe I have once, but I don't even think I've used it yet. So, that's a crazy amount of people, and it's it's pretty seamless experience. Google has, like, to some degree, probably more opportunity to position AI in front of users compared to OpenAI, which I think is gonna help Google catch up faster. Whether it's within Google Docs, within Gmail, within search, AI is, at the fingertips of all those use cases, whereas, OpenAI, I think users may have to be more intentional. So I think that's gonna help close the gap.
Jordan Metzner [12:43]: Yeah. I mean, I think that's one point for how impactful, a company like Facebook can be in this space because, you look at Meta who is now, probably in one of the last place positions, obviously, spending heavily on AI. And they just have so many eyeballs on their products that once they, start to integrate AI into their tools, we'll see, a huge amount of adoption like we're seeing here at Google. And I think, if Google continues to power through by providing high quality AI services and tools to users and continues to put them, integrated into their applications, I think we're gonna continue to see a lot of adoption.
Sam Nadler [13:24]: Alright, Jordan. Thanks. Another great episode of Built This Week covering our cult you know, internal cultural tool called Mate and then some hot AI news. Anything before we wrap up?
Jordan Metzner [13:36]: I just think it's awesome episode five. Like I said, middle of summer, and AI is only heating up more and more. I think, as we go into the fall, things are gonna get even crazier. It shows kind of this type of stuff we're seeing from major players like Google's and Oracles and the Facebook's of the world and even OpenAI and their big funding announcements this week as well. So I think, we're we're gonna continue to see a lot of movement in the space, continue to see a lot of chip purchasing and kind of increasing chip stacks across the board, and seems like the battle for who's who's the number one AI company, continues.
Sam Nadler [14:10]: Thanks, everyone. Next week, we'll have another episode of Built This Week. Like and subscribe and listen to us on all your favorite places where you listen to podcasts. Have a great week.
