Baszucki said Roblox was growing headcount by 50 percent back in Q1 and needed a lot of recruiters. That hiring is just slowing down, he told The Verge’s Alex Heath.
“We’ve done this amazing job of growing steadily over the last two years,” Baszucki said.
He’s speaking with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, who writes the Command Line newsletter.
We ran an excerpt from his book earlier today. It’s a fascinating section about how the First Amendment protected someone who lied about military service.
CEO Lisa Su says you can’t limit the chips alone, but...
I can make the combination of the chip and the model have some safeguards in place, and we’re absolutely willing to be at that table to make that happen.
She was responding to a question from Verge EIC Nilay Patel about whether she’d accept government restrictions on AI chips, such as stopping them from being used to develop chemical weapons.
But she says she’s looking at AI on a 10-plus year cycle — not just over the next four quarters. And there’s still a lot of room to improve our current models with higher performing chips.
“Generative AI, you know, is kind of the killer app for high performance computing,” she says.
She’s being interviewed by The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel.
Scaringe said he doesn’t like the BMW model of charging for heated seats — a feature that’s just flipped on or off.
But for something where there’s “ongoing R&D efforts,” he thinks it makes sense and consumers are willing to pay. “We’re certainly planning that in future products,” he said.
For Rivian, that probably looks like some sort of autonomy features.
Scaringe says Rivian is still working on its months-to-years long backlog and ramping up production to meet it.
“It’s an incredibly high-cost problem to have,” he said. But he doesn’t want to get rid of it entirely. “It’s good to have some backlog.”
He questioned whether it should be six months of backlog or more like a year and a half. I heard an audible “Yiiiiick,” from a woman behind me.
