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Shawn Wang: belief

25 Oct 2024 Latent Space How NotebookLM Was Made

“You know, I think a lot of it is competent PMing and engineering, but also just, you know, it's interesting how a lot of these projects are always like low key research previews for you.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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belief
Recorded
25 Oct 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…That was so crazy when I saw that. I was like, what? Like, ChatGPT was huge for me. And I think, you know, when you said it and other people have said it, I was like, is it? Yeah. That's crazy. People weren't like really cognizant of Notebook LLM before and audio overviews and Notebook LLM like unlocked the, you know, a use case for people in the way that I would go so far as to say cloud projects never did. And I don't know. You know, I think a lot of it is competent PMing and engineering, but also just, you know, it's interesting how a lot of these projects are always like low key research previews for you. It's like you're a separate org, but like, you know, you built products and UI innovation on top of also working with research to improve the model. That was a success that wasn't planned to be this whole big thing. You know, your TPUs were on fire, right? Oh my gosh, that was so funny. I didn't know people would like really catch on to the Elmo fire, but it was just like one of those things where I was like, you know, we had to ask for more TPUs. Yeah, we many times. And, you know, it was a little bit of a, of a subtweet of like, Hey, reminder, give us more TPUs on here. It's weird.…

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