The Circuit with Emily Chang Bloomberg

If the latest battle in the AI wars is between open-source models and closed ones, Meta CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg is right on the frontline. Since rebranding as Meta in 2021, the trillion dollar company formerly known as Facebook has been pouring billions into its long term bets on artificial intelligence and the Metaverse. Meta’s latest push is a major play to open-source AI, in contrast to closed-source competitors like Google and Open AI. In an exclusive interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang sits down with Zuckerberg to discuss how the company’s newest AI model Llama 3.1 will shape the future of business, technology and society. She also visits his retreat in Lake Tahoe and learns how to wakesurf with Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan.
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YouTube is now the biggest streamer in the world, winning the battle for eyeballs against competitors like Netflix, Hulu, Disney and Max. Now, the entertainment giant is eyeing up its next frontier: the living room. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan sits down with Emily Chang to discuss the platform’s growth strategy, keeping the creator economy afloat and how it is cracking down on AI generated content.
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Ryan Kaji is the reigning king of toy videos and one of YouTube’s biggest and highest-paid social media stars. Now, at the tender age of 12, he's getting his first Hollywood movie, with his parents as co-stars. Behind the Kaji empire is Chris Williams, CEO of kids entertainment media company Pocket.Watch. On this Circuit podcast, Emily Chang sits down with Williams to discuss the kids entertainment landscape, how kid YouTubers are making a killing across YouTube, merchandising, and brand deals, and how AI will present new challenges and opportunities for young creators. 
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For years, a Hawaiian-shirt and flip-flop wearing, smack-talking entrepreneur has been promising to disrupt the US defense industry. Now, Palmer Luckey, founder of autonomous weapons startup Anduril Industries, isn’t just talking about it, he’s doing it. Emily Chang and Palmer Luckey sit down to discuss building Anduril, his relationship with Silicon Valley, how autonomous weapons are changing the battlefield in Ukraine, and culture clashes between Big Tech and the defense industry. 
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Ahead of Google's developer conference I/O, Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sits down with Bloomberg Originals Host & Executive Producer Emily Chang to discuss the future of search, accelerating work on Google's AI models and how his upbringing prepared him for this moment.
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Mary Barra has an ambitious plan: to double General Motor’s revenue to $280 billion by the end of the decade and turn the legacy automaker into more of a tech company. To pull this off, she's going all in on electric drive and autonomous cars. At the ten year mark of her career as CEO, Emily Chang sits down with Barra to discuss her journey to the c-suite, her big plans for the future and what it'll take to turn them into a reality. 
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