How native speakers pronounce “billion”

grown from Just the Two of Us in a garage into A2 billion doll company with over 4,000 employees we just released

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) And 16 billion views later, what I've learned is I can't teach you

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

in your physicians. Almost 20 billion times each year, a person walks into a doctor's office,

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

You know, we have Dr. John Slotkin, a neurosurgeon, who has just calculated that $900 billion to $1.25 trillion could be saved

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

It was going back, all the way back. You see, two billion years ago, life on Earth was mostly single-celled

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

I started one of the early AI companies. I raised a quarter of a billion dollars to do it, and I sold my business to Google.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

or we don't make it there at all. Two billion years ago, the first merger gave us our cells, and the ones that followed gave us our bodies,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

I think we can draw a direct line from the molecular furnaces of metabolism, one billion biochemical reactions in every cell, in every second, all the way to the neural circuits

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Forbes tracks 3,428 people we believe have a net worth right now of a billion dollars or more. And they all have one thing in common.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

Right now, here are the five richest people in the world, all Americans, all with a net worth north of 200 billion dollars. Forbes tracks pretty much every billionaire

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

Training a large model can consume as much as 10 million watts, and there’s talk of going nuclear to power one-billion-watt data centers. So why is AI so much more energy-hungry than brains?

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

a typical HD video stream, this camera would have to start recording 3.8 billion years in the past to record this amount of data.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

There was just one really big problem. I didn't have 15 years and a billion dollars to develop a new drug from scratch.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

They are food, livelihoods and coastal protection for more than one billion people. They anchor the economies of over 100 nations

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

the nation's leader in public safety advocacy. ASJ has unlocked three billion dollars in funding and led 150 policy reforms

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

I have some questions. Is it realistic to ignore the one to two billion climate refugees that the climate scientists are warning us

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

to promote authoritarianism and ultranationalism. How can we handle one to two billion in the next 25 years? Already here in Kenya, there are 800,000 refugees,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

there's 71 in the works, 31 already existing, 25 billion dollars. That's the exact amount that would provide universal energy access

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

sometimes a million dollars per engineer and up to a billion dollars per model. But they expect to take the third resource, training data, for free.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that is, in which no copyright exists, like the 500-billion-word dataset Common Corpus. You can expand this further with synthetic data,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

That fishery had gone from 11.7 billion crabs to 1.9 billion

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

fishery had gone from 11.7 billion crabs to 1.9 billion last year.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

we start to hit the 2° warming. 3.5 billion, with a B, people rely on rice for daily part,

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

And in the US, particularly, we spend $218 billion on food we never eat.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

And the other was just the realization that I had no other option. I didn't have a billion and 15 years to create a brand new drug. If I wanted to survive, I would have to find something that existed.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

one of the biggest breakthroughs of the last century. We spent over a decade mapping out all three billion letters of our genome, the complete set of DNA.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

We can do that again, but not for 15 million people, maybe for 150 million people, maybe for 1.5 billion people. Because America has 170 million workers,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

that this good news is not uncomplicated. 100 years ago, there were less than two billion people on earth. Today there's almost eight billion and counting.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

100 years ago, there were less than two billion people on earth. Today there's almost eight billion and counting. And we have that runaway population growth

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

It multiples to two. Two becomes four. Four becomes eight, and on and on to form the 200 million billion cells that make up our adult body.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

Thank you. The emergence of vision half a billion years ago turned a world of darkness upside down.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

all those 200 million proteins known to science. So that's a billion years of PhD time saved. (Applause)

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

Microsoft and OpenAI are reported to be building or investing like 100 billion dollars into an absolute monster database supercomputer

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

How will we avoid the situation where someone is getting a lead, someone else has got 100 billion dollars invested in their thing. Isn't someone going to go, "Wait a sec.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

In just 18 months, over a billion people have used large language models. We've witnessed one landmark event after another.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

Last year, Inflection 2.5, our last model, used five billion times more computation than the DeepMind AI that beat the old-school Atari games

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

If someone did nothing but read 24 hours a day for their entire life, they'd consume eight billion words. And of course, that's a lot of words.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

there are reports of these giant new data centers, 100 billion dollars invested and so forth. And a new species can emerge from it.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

Digital fashion could also make us be more sustainable. 150 billion garments are manufactured every year, and many of them are unsold.

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

and not for the better. Right now, there are more than two billion hectares of degraded land around the world.

Susan Graham: A new way to restore Earth's biodiversity -- from the air | TED · TED

And until 1800, there were four billion of these trees across the forest until blight, a fungal blight that came in, imported,

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

absolutely wiped out these trees. By 1950, all four billion trees were decimated. Now, since that time,

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

as I watched my country go up in flames. As one billion animals were incinerated by the inferno. As friends tried to rescue their homes,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

stories the world impresses upon us in boardrooms and classrooms alike. "I'm just one in 7.8 billion people, I'm too small to make a difference."

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

for his popular formats, like Carpool Karaoke, which has now totaled over one billion views, we don’t even talk about and forget about the many, many flops he’s had.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

(Applause) Witnessed by 1.5 billion people in person and through live broadcasts, this work symbolized the era's idealistic delusion of globalization.

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

and they agreed to double investment into global health and development -- an additional 6.2 billion dollars. It felt like --

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

to boost their investment into water and sanitation. Here's the Bank's president Jim Kim announcing 15 billion dollars onstage at Global Citizen,

What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans

Three years later, those relationships still exist. Imagine with me if the one billion people who travel internationally every year travel like this,

For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah