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Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
The Artifact and Instagram cofounder discusses his new role at leading AI firm Anthropic.
It feels like things are in balance.” At the extremes, though, like local news, a lot of those websites for economic reasons have become sort of like, you arrive and there’s a sign-in with Google and a pop-up to sign up to the newsletter before you’ve even consumed any content. The big company idea was, can we bring Instagram-type product thinking to recommender systems and combine those two things in a way that creates new experiences that aren’t beholden to your existing friend and follow graph? It was the closest combination I could have imagined to 1) the team I would’ve wanted to have built had I been starting a company; 2) enough to do — so much to do that I wake up every day both excited and daunted by how much there is to do; and 3) already momentum and scale so I could feel like I was going to hit the ground running on something that had a bit of tailwind.
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