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What Product Leaders at Netflix and Meta Actually Think About AI Product Management

Notes from our session on AI Native Products & The AI PM Trend

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Aishwarya Naresh Reganti
Aug 09, 2025
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Okay, this one isn't really a Chai and AI community session - it's a public one you can watch here too. But I was so full of knowledge that I thought might as well leave a summary here for a quick pass.

The term "AI PM" has been doing the rounds so much these days, with so many people using and abusing it. I wanted to sit down with leaders who've played the game for a while, seen multiple waves, and really ask them the tough questions: What are AI PMs? Why didn't older waves of AI (ML, DL) have separate PMs? What's the hype and what's the truth?

Jyothi Nookula, Product Director at Netflix, and Vikash Rungta, ex-Product Leader at Meta's Llama team and founder now.

Here's a summary:

What Actually Makes Something "AI Native"

Q: Everyone's throwing around "AI native" - what does it actually mean?

Jyoti: Think of it this way - there are AI products where AI is just another feature slapped on, versus AI native products where AI is the core capability and everything else is designed around it. Ch…

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