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Figma’s CEO on his new approach to AI

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Figma CEO Dylan Field talks to tech conference attendees about the company's new products.

Field: "Design and craft are the differentiator that makes a product and a brand stand out" He says Figma is going to see more software created than ever before because of AI .

Field also talks about how Meta is turning up the heat on its AI team.

Figma Sites is not optimized for brainstorming, ideation, whiteboarding, or diagramming.

Meta AI team at Meta is feeling the heat.

CEO Chris Cox recently wrote an internal memo addressing “a lot of burnout” in the org.

OpenAI is still a nonprofit while still making unlimited profits, but its corporate restructuring is far from over.

The only job move anyone could talk about this week was Instacart CEO Fidji Simo heading to OpenAI to be “CEO of applications” Simo makes sense as a leader at OpenAI , given that she was already on the nonprofit board, knows how to scale orgs.

Sam Altman says this new setup will let him focus on “research, compute, and safety.

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