Mark Niesta
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Mark Niesta
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AI Data Product Management | Home barista

🚨 BREAKING: GROK AI APP HITS #1 GLOBALLY Elon’s Grok AI app has SHOT to the #1 spot worldwide—topping charts from the US to the UK to the EU. Now on iOS, with Android coming soon, Grok-3 offers 10x more compute power and is free for a limited time. New features like DeepSearch Mode and Think Mode enhance reasoning and response quality. Mac and Windows versions are on the way. Source: Business Standard






I was very curious when I saw this about who the licensee was - turns out it is Google. Consider this the first deal of the TAC 2.0 era. (TAC initially meant Traffic Acquisition Cost - now means Training Acquisition Cost). TAC 1.0 was won by Google and their balance sheet where they paid billions of dollars to distribute their version of search. For example, they currently pay Apple $18B+ per year for Apple to push Google search on the iPhone. In TAC 2.0 many billions will also be spent, but this time to license differentiating training data for AI models. Your moat is your data. So the more data you have and the more your data is unique , the more money you will make in the AI economy. reuters.com/technology/red…


I’m super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios, and LinkedIn, and I’m looking forward to having you do the same.









