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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by kranke155 »

karaterobot wrote: post #30

Sometimes two collaborators make each other better than either are alone. I get the sense that's how Steve Jobs and Jony Ive were. I've not seen anything Ive has done since be as good as what he did before. Someone has to hold the spike so the other one can swing the hammer. My guess is that's not how this relationship with Altman will work. And that picture is terrifying, please take it down and destroy the camera t…

Everything about this announcement screams “we’re completely out of touch”

I am terrified of this company making any products

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by outside1234 »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #39
jack_riminton wrote: post #27

People seem to be overlooking this: “ Altman doesn’t have equity in io, OpenAI said. “

What about equity-like-instruments-that-don’t-have-the-word-equity-in-the-name?

Or stakes in other companies that company then buys

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by amelius »

ko_pivot wrote: post #10

No question that Ive is a legend, but I do think the fall of Humane (also ex-Apple) and the challenges at Meta, Apple, and Google in terms of VR/AR adoption (Meta Ray Ban, Apple Vision, Google Glasses and the new thing) are instructive here. The $6.5B almost feels like the largest ever aquihire.

> No question that Ive is a legend

Not sure why he deserves to be a legend, to be honest, but yes, he is a legend.

He did a good job, but those small and minimalistic designs were only possible because of the efforts of entire teams of engineers, of which the public never heard anything.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by joshstrange »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #42
joshstrange wrote: post #23

The ability for a CEO to be a founder of another company and then buy that company with the company he is a CEO of seems incredibly sketchy. See also: bullshit idea that someone can actually run multiple companies, it’s ceo welfare and vanity titles.

No one is forcing you to invest in said companies. As an investor it's up to you to do due diligence on the board, conflict of interest disclosures, whether sizeable acquisitions require shareholder approval, etc. This is on top of blanket legal protections that already exist in case you didn't want to do your own DD, like duty of loyalty, care and fiduciary; SEC disclosures, AD @ the DoJ, FTC, etc.

Not sure what you are replying to. I'm not investing in OpenAI nor do I want to. I can call out BS behavior without being an investor.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by kranke155 »

rvz wrote: post #19

The name is "IO". A day after the Google I/O keynote. Another purposely planned derailment. It's probably some form of glasses with ChatGPT on it but obvious glazing, pomp and ceremony of this announcement talking directly to Apple. Apple has 1 year to respond.

Apple should buy Anthropic I think. It’s the last available lab.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by easton »

karaterobot wrote: post #30

Sometimes two collaborators make each other better than either are alone. I get the sense that's how Steve Jobs and Jony Ive were. I've not seen anything Ive has done since be as good as what he did before. Someone has to hold the spike so the other one can swing the hammer. My guess is that's not how this relationship with Altman will work. And that picture is terrifying, please take it down and destroy the camera t…

What is it about that picture that's so icky? I had the exact same reaction.
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