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YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang


On its 20th anniversary, YouTube is venturing into an era of AI-generated video, and may never be the same.

Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working above a San Mateo, California, pizzeria was exploding, simply by letting anyone upload their goofy videos and not worrying too much about who held copyrights to the clips. Mohan reminds me that his own connection with the service began even before he joined Google in 2008, after his ad company DoubleClick merged with the search giant. I didn’t dare to ask Mohan to predict where we’ll be on this issue 20 years from now, instead asking him just to speculate what’s ahead in a three- to five-year time frame.

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