On this episode of Deployed, we sit down with Ajit Varma, VP of Product at Mozilla Firefox, and former product leader at Google, Meta, Square, and WhatsApp. Ajit brings a unique perspective: while venture-backed AI browsers race to build what increasingly look like walled gardens, Mozilla has spent months quietly shipping privacy-first AI features that put user choice above everything else. It's a thoughtful conversation with candid insights into why Firefox offers multiple AI chat prov...
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On this episode of Deployed, we sit down with Ajit Varma, VP of Product at Mozilla Firefox, and former product leader at Google, Meta, Square, and WhatsApp. Ajit brings a unique perspective: while venture-backed AI browsers race to build what increasingly look like walled gardens, Mozilla has spent months quietly shipping privacy-first AI features that put user choice above everything else. It's a thoughtful conversation with candid insights into why Firefox offers multiple AI chat prov...
How Google Labs Builds AI Products: Lessons from Google Labs' Kelly Schaefer
Deployed: The AI Product Podcast
48 minutes
3 months ago
How Google Labs Builds AI Products: Lessons from Google Labs' Kelly Schaefer
On this episode of Deployed, we talk with Kelly Schaefer, a Product Director at Google Labs and who’s been recognized as one of the Top 100 Women in AI. Kelly has led a portfolio of experimental AI products like NotebookLM and the Jules coding agent. The Google Labs team helps turn DeepMind research into real products that can work at Google scale. She shares what actually works when shipping AI features, from how her teams use evals to drive product quality, to why speed matters more than pe...
Deployed: The AI Product Podcast
On this episode of Deployed, we sit down with Ajit Varma, VP of Product at Mozilla Firefox, and former product leader at Google, Meta, Square, and WhatsApp. Ajit brings a unique perspective: while venture-backed AI browsers race to build what increasingly look like walled gardens, Mozilla has spent months quietly shipping privacy-first AI features that put user choice above everything else. It's a thoughtful conversation with candid insights into why Firefox offers multiple AI chat prov...
