Given OpenAI’s declining performance after his being sidelined and then departing, interested to see what they do. Should be a clear demonstration of who was really driving innovation there.
Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
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Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#32Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#33$1B raise, $5B valuation. For a company that is a couple months old and doesn't have a product or even a single line of code in production. Wild.
This deal was cooked way back, though, perhaps even before the coup.
Now, can they make a product that makes at least $1B + 1 dollar in revenue? Doubt it, I honestly don't see a market for "AI safety/security".
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#34$1B raise, $5B valuation. For a company that is a couple months old and doesn't have a product or even a single line of code in production. Wild.
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#35Given OpenAI’s declining performance after his being sidelined and then departing, interested to see what they do. Should be a clear demonstration of who was really driving innovation there.
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#36Same funding as OpenAI when they started, but SSI explicitly declared their intention not to release a single product until superintelligence is reached. Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era?
> Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era? Minus the urgency, scientific process, well-defined goals, target dates, public ownership, accountability...
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#37Good news for NVDA.
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#38i get that they're probably busy making AGI but surely they can spare a few hours to make a proper website? or is this some 4d-chess countersignalling i'm too stupid to notice?
(I think it's branding, yes. A kind of "we don't care about aesthetics, we care about superintelligence" message)
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#39i get that they're probably busy making AGI but surely they can spare a few hours to make a proper website? or is this some 4d-chess countersignalling i'm too stupid to notice?
What’s mildly annoying to me is their domain only returns an A record.
Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
#40I think this is actually a signal that the AI hype is dissipating. These numbers and the valuation are indicative that people consider this a potentially valuable tool, but not world changing and disruptive. I think this is a pretty reasonable take.