As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams and hiring a bunch of specially trained AI engineers is “the wrong way to go.”
Instead, he argued that non-technical team members can “actually have a much deeper understanding than an average engineer on what situations the customer can get themselves into, what they’re confused about,” putting them in a better position to guide the features that should be built into AI tools.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Kim — whose payroll startup generated more than $500 million in annual revenue in the fiscal year that ended in April 2023 — outlined Gusto’s approach to AI, with non-technical members of its customer experience team writing “recipes” that guide the way its AI assistant Gus (announced last month) interacts with customers.
Kim also said that the company is seeing that “people who are not software engineers, but a little technically minded, are able to build really powerful and game-changing AI applications,” such as CoPilot — a customer experience tool that was rolled out to the Gusto CX team in June and is already seeing between 2,000 and 3,000 interactions per day.
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“We can actually upskill a lot of our people here at Gusto to help them build AI applications,” Kim said.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Is Gus the first big AI product that you’ve released to your customers?
Gus is the big AI functionality that we launched to our customers, and in many ways ties together a lot of the point functionality that we’ve built. Because what you start to see happen in apps is they get littered with AI buttons that are, like, “Press this button to do something with AI.” Ours was, “Press this button so we can generate a job description for you.”
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But Gus allows you to remove all of that, and when we feel Gus can do something that is of value to you, Gus can in an unobtrusive way pop up and say, “Hey, I can help you write a job description?” It’s a much cleaner way to interface with AI.
There are some companies that say they’ve been doing AI for a million years but didn’t get attention until now, and others that say they only realized the opportunity in the last couple years. Does Gusto fall in one camp or the other?
The big change for me is, when you talk about software programming, for most people, it’s not accessible. You have to learn how to code, go to school for many years. Machine learning was even more inaccessible. Because you have to be a very special type of software engineer and have this data science skill set and know how to create artificial neural networks and things like that.
The main thing that changed recently is that the interface to create ML and AI applications [has become] much more accessible to anybody. Whereas in the past, we’ve had to learn the language of computers and go to school for that, now computers are learning to understand humans more. And that seems like not that big of a deal, but if you think about it, it just makes building software applications so much more accessible.
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That’s exactly what we’ve seen at Gusto: People who are not software engineers, but a little technically minded, are able to build really powerful and game-changing AI applications. We’re actually using a lot of our support team to extend the capabilities of Gus, and they don’t know how to program at all. It’s just that the interface that they use now allows them to do the same thing that software engineers have always done, without needing to learn how to code. If you want, I could talk through one example of each of those.
That’d be great.
There’s this one individual who’s been at the company for about five years. His name is Eric Rodriguez, and he actually joined the customer support team [and then] transferred into our IT team. While he was on that team, he started to get pretty interested in AI, and his boss came up to me and was like, “Hey, he built this thing. I want you to see it.” My first time meeting him in-person, he showed me what he had built, which was essentially a CoPilot tool for our [customer experience] team, where you could ask it a question, and it will just give you the answer in natural language. Just like ChatGPT might, except it has access to our internal knowledge base of how to do things in our app.
At this point, we show this to our support team, and they loved it. It completely changed their workflows and how efficient they are. Basically, anytime they get a support ticket, instead of going through this knowledge base that we’ve built, they actually ask this CoPilot tool, and the CoPilot tool actually answers the question for them. There’s still a human in between the CoPilot and the customer, but a lot of times they’re able to just get the response from the CoPilot tool and then copy paste it to the customer. They verify that it’s accurate, which most of the time it is.
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We immediately transferred [Eric] to the software engineering team. He actually reports directly to me, believe it or not, and he’s one of our best engineers now. Because he was one of the early adopters of just playing around with AI and now he’s on the forefront of building AI applications at Gusto.
Not everyone is technically minded like Eric, but we have found a way at Gusto to leverage the domain knowledge expertise of non-technical folks in the company, especially in our customer support team, to help us build more powerful AI applications, and in particular, enable Gus to do more and more things.
Anytime the customer support team gets a support ticket — in other words, one of our customers reaches out to us because they want our support team’s help on something — and if it comes up repeatedly, we actually have the customer support team write a recipe for Gus, meaning that they can actually teach Gus without any technical ability. They can teach Gus to walk that customer through that problem, and sometimes even take action.
We’ve built an internal interface, an internal facing tool, where you can write instructions in natural language to Gus on how to handle a case like that. And there’s actually a no-code way for our support team to be able to tell Gus to call a certain API to accomplish a task.
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There’s a lot of conversation out there right now that’s like, “We are going to eliminate all these jobs in this one area and we’re hiring these AI specialists that we’re paying millions of dollars because they have this unique skill set.” And I just think that’s the wrong way to go about doing it. Because the people who are going to be able to progress your AI applications are actually the ones that have the domain expertise of that area, even though they may not have the technical expertise. We can actually upskill a lot of our people here at Gusto to help them build AI applications.
The scary AI scenario is this top-down thing where executives are saying, “We need to use AI” and it’s disconnected from the reality of how people work. It sounds like this is more bottoms up, where you’ve built tools to allow teams to tell you what AI can do for them.
Exactly. In fact, the non-technical folks that are closer to the customers, they talk to them every single day, they actually have a much deeper understanding than an average engineer on what situations the customer can get themselves into, what they’re confused about. So they are actually in a better position than engineers or AI scientists to write the instructions to Gus to solve that problem.
I think other people I’ve talked to have noticed the same thing. The best AI engineers are actually the people that are the domain experts that have learned how to write good prompts.
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As you think about how this plays out over the next few years, do you think the company’s headcount across different teams is going to look pretty similar, or do you think that’ll change over time as AI is deployed across the company?
I think the role does evolve a little bit. I think you’ll see a lot of our CX folks not directly answering questions, but actually writing recipes and doing things like prompt tuning to improve the AI. Everyone’s going to just move up the abstraction layer, and then obviously it will bring more efficiencies to the company and also better customer experience, because they’ll get their questions answered immediately.
And that unlocks Gusto to do more things for our customers. There’s a huge roadmap of things that we want to be doing, but we can’t, because we’re constrained in resources.
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.
I’m not sure whether others will find this quite as difficult as I did, but I made an early mistake and was slightly worried about my streak – which is admittedly only at six, but hey you have to take what you can in this game.
The problem for me was that the easiest group, KINDS OF BEANS, contained one I didn’t know, NAVY; in the UK, where I am, these are instead called haricot beans. I spotted that PINTO, KIDNEY and MUNG all clearly went together but guessed LIVER as the fourth (I think I was confused with LIMA) and when that was wrong didn’t really know what to do next.
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So I moved on, and found the green ATTRACT group, then the actually-fairly-easy blue AUTOMATIC GEAR SHIFTER POSITIONS group. Revisiting ‘beans’ with a smaller pool of words I vaguely recalled a mention of NAVY beans in some movie or other so played that and got it right. That meant I didn’t need to solve the purple __POOL group, which is just as well as I had no clue about that one.
YELLOW: BIT OF NEWSPAPER WRITING ARTICLE, COLUMN, FEATURE, STORY
BLUE: TABLE TENNIS NEEDS BALL, NET, PADDLE, TABLE
PURPLE: HOMOPHONES OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS BUTT, FORE, OAR, SEW
What is NYT Connections?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
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It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
The thriller genre is consistently entertaining, and Amazon Prime Video has some of the best movie picks in this department. The platform’s library has everything adrenaline junkies would want, from all-time classics to contemporary hits. Prime Video’s thrillers are also diverse, including sci-fi thrillers, high-octane action, dystopian thrillers, and everything in between.
Movies like the Daniel Craig-led No Time to Die and the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambsare among this month’s highlights. While the depth of the service’s catalog can be intimidating, this monthly updated guide highlights some of the best thriller movies on Prime Video right now.
London’s W1 is somewhere to go if you’ve got too much money to spend on something. Within minutes of each other, you can visit the city’s priciest private doctor, buy a Steinway and a pair of designer glasses that cost more than my mortgage. Wigmore Street is also where the ultra rich go to buy a kitchen that Thorstein Veblen would weep at the sight of. It’s also the new home of Moley Robotics, a company selling luxury kitchens and the robot arm that’ll kinda/sorta do all of the cooking for you, too.
Moley is the brainchild of Dr. Mark Oleynik and is one part kitchen showroom and one part robot lab. It’s a spartan space with three demo kitchens, a wide dining table and some display units showing you the different types of artisan marble you can have for your countertop. The point of interest is the working X-AiR robot just behind the front window that acts as a lure for would-be consumers. It’s got its own cooktop, shelves, oils and utensils and, with the proper help, can even whip up a meal.
Moley
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Oleynik explained he wanted to create something to help people eat better food with less reliance on preservatives. His dislike of reheated and processed food sent him looking for alternatives, which led him to finding a way to automate fresh cooking. If you’re coming back late from work, the obvious temptations are microwave meals or delivery food. He believes people would much rather healthy recipes where you just prep the raw ingredients and let the robot do the rest. The focus on health extends to the database of potential meals, many of which have been created by the SHA Wellness Clinic.
Moley has its own in-house chef, James Taylor, who adapts each recipe so it can be made by a one-armed robot. The company says it hopes to add two or three new recipes each month, and that if you have a family dish you’d love to see automated, you can send it in. Oleynik said the movements are mapped onto the robot after watching a human chef prepare the same meal. And that, once it had learned what to do, the robot would be far less error-prone than its human counterpart.
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The initial demonstration of Moley’s vision (above) used a two-armed chef that ran on overhead tracks that earned the company so many plaudits initially. Unfortunately, Oleynik admitted the cost for such a robot would have likely reached north of £250,000 (Around $330,000). Which is probably too rich even for the sort of people who frequent Wigmore Street for their kitchen appliances. To reduce the price, the company stripped down the project from a mobile, two-armed version to a single arm. The robot that Moley is actually selling is bought off-the-shelf from Universal Robots, an industrial robotics company.
The robot
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The one-armed version that’s currently up for pre-order is known as the X-AiR, which is what sits in the front of Moley’s showroom. If you want one for yourself, you’ll need to buy a new countertop, two custom shelving units, a cooktop, control tablet and the robot itself. The prices are in the “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” range but the price to get in the door is £80,000 (around $105,000). So far, Moley hasn’t installed a single robot, but expects the process to begin in the next three to six months. But there are people who have already laid down cash to get one of these in their homes, and the kitchen that goes around it.
X-AiR has no built-in vision or sensing technology enabling it to perceive or engage with its environment. The system does come with a camera, embedded in one of the shelves, that I understand is more for technical support than to aid cooking. Instead, the robot arm moves around its space from memory, knowing where all of the ingredients, oils and tools should be. The saucepans are held in place over the jobs on the cooktop to keep the environment as controlled as possible.
I was present to witness Moley’s now standard demonstration using an SHA Clinic recipe for Asian Tofu Saute. Staff members had pre-prepared the ingredients and placed them in the pots necessary for the robot to grab. In order to start the process, the user needs to tell the system which ingredients are in which sections. There’s even a little diagram of the shelf layout, so you can tap “Bean Sprouts” and tap that the pot with them is seated in position A1, for instance. Once you’ve done that, you can set the machine going and theoretically leave it be until it’s time to eat.
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The system is set up to call out every instruction from the recipe so it’s easy to follow along with it. In the video, you should be able to see why it’s an interesting thing to watch as the arm starts its ballet to start cooking your food. It almost theatrically turns on the cooktop before pouring a liberal quantity of oil into the pan to begin warming. After that, it begins adding the ingredients as and when commanded to, and stirring the mixture in between. The stirring is more of a back and forth pushing of the mix, which is obviously less thorough than a human would be. After each stir, the robot scrapes its spatula on the side of the pan before returning it to its hook.
There are similar touches when the robot adds the next ingredient from its dedicated bin, double tapping the pot on the side to ensure everything falls out. I noticed, however, that there were a few ingredients still attached to the spatula and the pots when they were returned to the shelf. This is the big issue with a robot that lacks any sort of vision to perceive its local environment. During my demonstration, a few strips of leek clung to the spatula and fell off, onto the cooktop itself, while in motion. It was quickly wiped away, but I couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if it’d landed a millimeter closer to the burner and pan and started burning.
What it can’t do
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I’m much happier tending to a pan and actually cooking than I am peeling carrots and trying to dice onions. The obvious question, then, is why Moley sought to automate the ostensibly fun part of cooking rather than the bit people dislike? Oleynik said it might be possible in a far-flung future but there are just too many variables to make a carrot-peeling robot work. Not to mention, he added, the safety risks inherent in giving a robot a bladed instrument to wield.
Moley’s first-generation robots are also limited by the volume of food they can cook in a single session. Depending on the meal, they can make between eight and ten portions, enough for a dinner party but nothing more extravagant. Not to mention the robots can’t make much of any adjustment if you don’t have exactly the right ingredients ready for use. You can remove any you don’t have, naturally, but there’s no ability to improvise beyond that, or to variate its program to take into account seasonal differences in ingredient quality.
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The food
Photo by Daniel Cooper / Engadget
When I was told the robot was making me tofu, I had to work hard to keep myself standing upright. If they could have seen my soul, they’d have watched my shoulders droop so hard they fell through the floor, through the basement, and into the subway line below. Friends, I cannot stand tofu and grimace my way through it whenever my vegan chums insist we go to a meat-free restaurant. Even when they insist I’m eating “really good” tofu, it just tastes like stringy matter, devoid of any inherent flavor as I try to mash it in my mouth. So bear that in mind when I say that the tofu the robot cooked me was actually delicious. It had a nice texture and tasted pretty delicious, meshing beautifully with the vegetables.
The future
Oleynik believes his robots will find a variety of niches to fill, first with money-rich, time-poor folks in London and beyond. The internet tells me that a private chef would set you back around £300 a day, so you’d burn through that £80,000 in less than a year. Naturally, it’s likely anyone who can drop £80,000 on a cooking robot can probably afford to buy their ingredients pre-prepared, so they could just dump them in the bins and set things going.
After that, Oleynik believes the technology could be used to prepare fresh meals for business and first-class airline passengers. Or in small kitchens where one employee supervises a production line of robots all making fresh dishes. His vision stretches to any situation where there may be a desire for fresh-cooked food, but the economics of a trained chef won’t allow it.
He cited the example of a hotel with 24/7 room service, where people are paid to wait around on the off-chance someone wants food. Or service stations in remote areas where there’s potential demand for meals but no need to hire a professional chef. Similarly, Oleynik cited care homes where there’s a similar conflict between a desire to produce good food but limited budgets.
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Of course, it’s not clear, given there would need to be a human preparing the raw ingredients and dishing up, how much labor is being saved. And anyone who is involved with food would likely need to be trained and paid accordingly, which may eliminate any potential savings. But Oleynik is certain that a business can expect to see a return on its investment within its first year of service.
As for the price, Oleynik believes the technology will refine to the point that the cost will fall quite far. He gestured to one of the demo kitchens in the showroom, which had a Miele-branded oven and fridge, saying each model cost £5,000 (around $6,500) each. He hopes he’ll be able to sell a cooking robot for £10,000 to the sort of people who don’t blink when spending £5,000 on an oven and another £5,000 on a fridge. But, if nothing else, it’s entirely in keeping with everything else you can buy on Wigmore Street.
Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere as a direct-to-streaming movie on January 24th on Paramount Plus, which revealed the date during a Trek panel at the New York Comic Con. Fans will finally see Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Discovery character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, put her Mirrorverse skills to use as a super secret space spy.
When we last saw Emperor Georgiou (an alternate dimension version of Captain Georgiou Discovery’s first season) she was flung back in time by a being called the Guardian of Forever. Before that, though, she had been recruited as a member of Section 31, the clandestine organization that the Trek franchise often uses to illustrate that even the glossy Federation has a shady side.
The film, originally announced as a TV series in 2019 before being reintroduced as a movie, will follow her time as a Section 31 operative who “must face the sins of her past.” In addition to Yeoh, Section 31 will also star Sam Richardson, Sven Ruygrok, Omari Hardwick, Robert Kazinsky, and Miku Martineau, who plays “a young Philippa Georgiou.” Paramount Plus subscribers can stream it anywhere the service is available on January 24th.
Promotional art for Star Trek: Section 31.Image: Paramount Plus
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• T
• N
• G
• U
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Quordle today (game #1001) – the answers
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This was another pretty straightforward Quordle, which is akin to saying another fairly tame lion; it’s never really true, is it? But it was easier than some, with NINTH the only word to contain a repeated letter, no nasty Zs or Xs or Js to worry about, and no remotely obscure words.
With so many excellent streaming services out there, finding the perfect fit for you can be more difficult than anticipated. This only gets more complicated if you’re cutting the cord with cable, but still want to stream live TV. If your household lives for sports, then one of the best options available is Fubo (formerly Fubo TV). It features plenty of sports, along with related content to inhale in between games. It also has access to plenty of great new movies and TV shows. You’ll even be able to record them, thanks to the integrated cloud DVR feature.
There’s still plenty to learn about Fubo though, so we’ve put together this guide to teach you everything you need to know about it; including pricing, device compatibility, and what some of the channels are you’ll be able to enjoy. There’s also a decent handful of competitive platforms to choose from, including Hulu Plus Live TV and Sling TV.
There are four Fubo plans — Fubo Pro, Fubo Elite, Fubo Ultimate, and Fubo Latino — that range in price from $35 per month to $110 per month.
Here’s how the total Fubo cost shakes out:
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Fubo Pro is the new base plan and gets you 200 channels for $80 a month. With that, you’ll have unlimited cloud-based DVR (the ability to “record” shows to play back later) and the ability to watch on up to 10 screens at home and two away from your home network. This is what Fubo calls “unlimited” despite it having a pretty clear limit.
Get access to 250 channels, including live sports from the NFL, NBA, NFL, the PGA Tour, and more, instant access to over 36,000 free On Demand titles, with steep discounts available for both new and returning subscribers. Best of all, prices are locked in for two years, so you can wave goodbye to unprecedented price increases. Oh, and did we mention you can watch up to four different sports games at the same time, skip commercials on select primetime shows, and watch and record up to 16 shows at once? Do cable the right way and try Dish today.
Fubo Elite with Sports Plus ramps things up to $100 a month and has 306 channels (with 130-plus events in 4K), another 54 from the Fubo Extra plan, and another 11 from News Plus. It also includes NFL RedZone. You still get unlimited cloud-based DVR, and 10 simultaneous screens at home, with two on the road.
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Fubo Deluxe is $110 a month and offers 326 channels in all (with the usual events in 4K), plus the same extra channels as Elite — 54 Fubo Extra and 11 News Plus channels. It also includes SportsPlus with NFL RedZone, MGM+, and International Sports Plus. This plan also includes unlimited cloud-based DVR, and 10 unlimited screens, plus two away from home.
Fubo Latino is $33 a month (you may see an initial sales price) and offers 61 channels of Latino-themed content and unlimited cloud-based DVR. You can only watch two screens at once on this plan.
All of these plans come with a free seven-day trial. You can pay monthly or quarterly — but there’s no discount if you fork over the cash for three months at a time.
Fubo has a competitive slate of channels. That starts with your local broadcast affiliates, though you’ll want to check the Fubo website because those can vary slightly depending on where you live.
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Fubo Pro — the new starter plan — has 200 channels, but that number includes eight different beIN Sports channels, 11 from TUDN, and a few others that also have alternates. Here’s what you can expect:
ABC, ABC News Live, ABC Localish, AXS TV Now, ACL Cornhole, Always Funny, Accuweather, beIN SPORTS 4, beIN SPORTS 5, beIN SPORTS 6, beIN SPORTS 7, beIN SPORTS 8, beIN SPORTS en Espanol, Bravo, Big Network, Bloomberg television, Bleav Football, Bounce, Boxing TV, Billiard TV, Bare Knuckle Fighting, BET, Big Ten Network, CBS Sports Network, 2, CLEO TV, Curiosity, Comedy Dynamics, Court TV, Court TV Legendary Trials, Craftsy TV, CMT, Comedy Central, CBS News 24/7, Comet, CNBC, Charge, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Jr, Dabl, Dove Channel, Dark Matter TV, EarthX TV, E!, ESPN, ESPN 2, Estrella TV, FS1 4k, FS2, Fox News, Freeform, FX, FXX, Fox Business, Fox Weather, Fox LiveNow, Fox Sports, Fox Soul, FailArmy, Free Movies, Family Time, Fubo Radio 1, Fubo Radio 2, Fubo Radio 3, Fubo Radio 4, Fubo Radio 6, Fubo Radio 7, Fubo Radio 8, Fubo Radio 9, Fubo Radio 10, Forensic Files, FloRacing, FeTV, Filmrise Unsolved Mysteries, FMC, Fubo Movies, Fubo Sports, Fubo Sports 2, Fubo Sports 3, Fubo Sports 4, Fubo Sports 5, Fubo Sports 6, Fubo Sports 7, Fubo Sports 9, Gusto TV, Great American Family, Grit, Glory, Game Show Central, Galavision, Get TV, Hallmark, Hallmark Mystery, Hallmark Family, InFast, Ion Mystery, Ion, Ion Plus, JTV, Kitchen Nightmares, LSN, Law & Crime, Locked On Sports Los Angeles, Live Tennis, Locked On Sports Today, LX TV, Local Now, Marquee, MASN, MASN, MSNBC, Maximum Effort Channel, Man Cave Movies, MTV, NBC Sports Philadelphia, NBC Sports 4k, NBC Golf, NFL Network, NBC News Now, National Geographic, NitroCircus TV, NewsMax, NewsMax2, News12 New York, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, NBC Universo, News Nation, Oxygen True Crime, Origin Sports, Power Sports World, Professional Football League, PBTV, Powder, Paramount, Pop TV, QVC, QVC’s Big Dish Channel, OZ TV, RealMadrid TV, SyFy, Sport Stak, Scripp News, Speed Vision, Start.tv, Swerve Combat, Salem News, Shop LC, Speed Sport, Surfer, Smithsonian Channel, TasteMade Food & More, TasteMade Travel, The First, The Pet Collective, The Design Network, The Bob Ross Channel, Tastemade home, Team Liquid, The Boat Show, True Crime, Telemundo, TV Land, The Weather Channel, TBD, The Nest, TUDN, TUDNXtra 1, TUDNXtra 10, TUDNXtra 11, TUDNXtra 2, TUDNXtra 3, TUDNXtra 4, TUDNXtra 5, TUDNXtra 6, TUDNXtra 7, TUDNXtra 8, TUDNXtra 9,USA, Univision, Universal Kids, Unimas, VH1, WSN, Willow, & XOXO.
There may also be local channels available in your location, so check the website for the most up-to-date channels.
Fubo Elite with Sports Plus adds another 106 channels. Those channels include:
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Africa News English, ACCN ESPN, Alien Nation, At Home Family Handyman, Bloomberg Originals, BET Jams, BET Soul, BET Her, Buzzr, Baywatch, Cheddar News, CNBC World, CL Sports, Court Sports Network, Circle Country, Classic TV, Cheaters, Chess TV, Crime and Punishment, Curiosity Now,Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Documentary Plus, Euro News, ESPN U, ESPN News, ESports Television, Fight Network, Fuel TV, FXM, Family Feud, Game Plus Network, Great American Faith & Living, Great American Adventures, Horse & Country, Hello Inspo, i24 News, InWonder, InTravel, Justice Central TV, Judge Nosy, Lego, MLB Network, MLB Strike Zone, MTV2, MTV U, MTV Live, MTV Classic, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mysteria, NFL RedZone, NBA TV, NHL Network, Next Level Sports & Entertainment, NickToons, NickMusic, Nat Geo Wild, Nosey, Non-Stop 90s, Outside TV, Pickle TV, Poker GO, People are Awesome, Revry News, ROI, Racing America, Revry, Retro Crush, Rig TV, Stadium, SEC ESPN Network, Sports Grid, Strongman Champions League, Sony Movie Channel, Shout TV, Sensical Makers, Supermarket Sweep, Sensical Gaming, Sensical Jr, The Washington Post Television, TYT, Tennis Channel, TNA Wrestling, Teen Nick, True Crime Now, Weather Spy, Whoa That Was Wild, Western, The Jami Oliver Channel, Unbeaten, WPT, World’s Wildest Police Videos, & Zona Futbol
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Other Fubo add-ons
The channels above are just the base plans. There are a number of other options as well.
You’ll find a few premium movie options, which include multiple channels. Those include:
Paramount Plus with Showtime for $11 a month
Starz for $11 a month
Epix for $6 a month
Pantaya for $6 a month
MGM+ for $6 a month
Or you can get Showtime, Starz and MGM+ bundled together for $20 a month, saving you $8 a month.
There are a number of additional sports and news packages, too. Some of it is in addition to what you’d get with Fubo Pro or Fubo Elite, but there also is some overlap. Here’s how it all breaks down:
Sports Plus with NFL RedZone ($11 a month): This gets you NFL RedZone, which flips through the games as teams are about to score. It also has NBA TV, NHL Network, MLB Network, MLB Strike Zone, Stadium, Tennis Channel, Zone Futbol, ESPNU, PAC-12 Networks, ESPNews, VSIN, Game Plus, Fight Network, and TVG2.
International Sports Plus ($7): A great option for international sports fans, it features Fubo Latino Network, Fox Deportes, Zone Futbol, ESPN HD Deportes, GolTV English, GolTV Spanish, TyC Sports, Fox Soccer Plus, Tico Sports, NXTLVL Sports, and Real Madrid TV.
News Plus ($3): i24 News, NewsNet, BBC World News, Law & Crime, Africa News, Ticker News, Bloomberg TV+, Cheddar News, CNBC World, and Euro News.
NBA League Pass ($17): Watch up to 40 out-of-market games each week.
Sports Lite ($10): Additional sports channels, including NBA TV, MLB Network, NHL Network, Tennis Channel, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPNU, and ESPNews.
Latino Plus ($20): This gets you the best of Spanish-language live sports, including Fox Deportes, Zone Futbol, ESPN HD Deportes, GolTV Spanish, TyC Sports, Sony Cine, El Gourmet, Nat Geo Mundo, Nuestra Tele, Telefe, Familia Discovery, Discovery en Espanol, tr3s, Baby TV, WAPA America, Cine Latino, Television Dominicana, CATV, and Passions.
TV5Monde ($10): All things French, including live Ligue 1 football, Rugby Top 14, films, news, and more. Includes on-demand content.
Portuguese Plus ($15): Portuguese-language news and sports, including GolTV Spanish.
Portuguese ($15):Portuguese-language coverage of sports, news, and entertainment. Also includes GolTV Spanish.
Fox Nation ($8): Everything to do with Fox News, this includes a library of 180-plus shows and thousands of original shows, series, and exclusives.
RAI Italia ($9): Italian cover of Coppa Italia.
Entretenimiento Plus ($10): Music and movies from Spain, Mexico, and other countries.
MLB.TV ($30): Catch every out-of-market MLB game, live or on demand.
Fubo Extra ($8): Access additional channels like MLB Network, NHL TV & more.
Entretenimiento Plus ($10): Movies, music and more from Spain, Mexico, and other spanish speaking countries.
Fubo Select ($7): Enjoy big shows, movies and documentaries from the worlds of science, history, culture and beyond.
Fubo, at one point, was the only live TV streaming service in the U.S. to offer up anything in 4K. (Yes, upscaled 4K, not native.) That was and remains limited to live sports, and it’s still better than nothing. But events remain fairly few and far between, with maybe a game or race a day. (Here’s the full Fubo 4K schedule.)
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And Fubo isn’t the only 4K game in town anymore — YouTube TV also offers up pretty much the same events from the likes of NBC Sports and Fox. One major change from 2022, however, is that Fubo no longer throws in 4K content for free anymore on the Pro plan. Like with YouTube TV, you’ll have to pay up if you want any sort of show in 4K resolution. That means you’ll have to eschew the $80-a-month Pro plan and skip straight to the $100-a-month Elite with Sports Plus package, or the $110-a-month Deluxe plan.
And the usual caveats still apply. You’ll need to have a TV with a 4K panel, and any other device you’re using to actually stream Fubo TV will need to support 4K resolution.
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The short version is this: If you have a relatively new device — be it a streaming stick, connected TV, or even a web browser — you should be able to get to Fubo. The app is available on every major streaming platform.
Here’s the more detailed breakdown:
Amazon Fire TV: This goes for all Fire TV devices, as well as the awkwardly named Fire TV Edition TVs (basically, that’s a TV with Fire TV OS as the operating system.)
Android TV/Google TV: This means devices like Nvidia Shield and Chromecast with Google TV, as well as other devices that are running full builds of Android TV. The same goes for televisions with Android TV as the operating system.
Apple TV: From the fourth-generation box and newer.
Android phones/tablets: So long as you have Android 5.0 or higher — and you almost certainly do.
Roku: It’s the biggest streaming device in the U.S. and fully supported for Model 3700X and up.
Xbox: If you have Xbox One, One S, or One X, you’re good to go.
Smart TVs: You can watch Fubo on Vizio from 2016, Samsung from 2015, LG from 2018, and Hisense from 2020.
iOS/iPad OS: From iOS 13 and up and iPad OS 13.1 and up.
Web browsers: You’re good on Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Safari.
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