I always thought Facebook was dumb for not branching out more to diversify their income from purely social ads. I always thought their own search engine made sense, although that would also be ad based revenue.
Monetizing their infrastructure and AI stuff via cloud services makes sense to me, although they may not have the cultural DNA to do it well. Google's struggles compared to AWS and Azure show it's not just the quality of tech that matters for B2B
That's a good point. A parallel can be drawn with AWS / Amazon perhaps. After all FB uses a lot of AI in their products already so you could argue they probably know how to run them in production at scale. Following the Amazon model why couldn't they offer AI (generative LLMs in this case) to third parties?
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I always thought Facebook was dumb for not branching out more to diversify their income from purely social ads. I always thought their own search engine made sense, although that would also be ad based revenue.
Monetizing their infrastructure and AI stuff via cloud services makes sense to me, although they may not have the cultural DNA to do it well. Google's struggles compared to AWS and Azure show it's not just the quality of tech that matters for B2B
That's a good point. A parallel can be drawn with AWS / Amazon perhaps. After all FB uses a lot of AI in their products already so you could argue they probably know how to run them in production at scale. Following the Amazon model why couldn't they offer AI (generative LLMs in this case) to third parties?