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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by mlnj »

mattlondon wrote: post #348
mlnj wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What else are they going to do with all that money? Raise billions and billions under the guise of AGI coming tomorrow and they just become a too big to fail company gobbling up any competition. You don't hear anyone touting AGI anymore do we?

> You don't hear anyone touting AGI anymore do we? Apart from, y'know, DeepMind - remember those guys? The ones with the SOTA models at the top of the leaderboards? The ones who just launched Veo3 and blew everyone away? It feels like OpenAI has kinda jumped-the-shark at this stage. They don't seem to be especially competitive any more, and all the news coming out of them is tinkering at the edges or acquisitions tha…

I meant from Open AI.

After a lot of the drama and a ton of talent leaving all they seem to have left now is a pile of cash that they can spend eliminating competition. Meanwhile like others have rightly pointed out, talent at Google and even Mistral have been crushing it.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by pizzathyme »

yalogin wrote: post #398

This is the only play for OpenAI. The AI service is going to be commoditized very very quickly and their moat will be gone. They will be doing vertical integration and push into everything. If people complained apple and google looked at apps and copied the functionality themselves what OpenAI will do will be much worse. Also when it took apple and google years to do it, OpenAI will do it very very quickly, in a year…

The other play is they build chatgpt.com into a destination. Two major data points to this: [1] Over 400M weekly actives, and [2] recent reports that chatgpt will be adding X.com / social network style features

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Post by elicash »

duxup wrote: post #13

Is there actually a thing or product here they're talking about / they made / making?

Yes, in the video on OpenAI's website, they reference a product that Altman is testing at home created by Ive.

No, we can't see it yet. And there's not much description, either. Just that it's the "coolest technology that the world will have ever seen."

Altman: "We have like magic intelligence in the cloud. If I wanted to ask ChatGPT something right now, about something we had talked about earlier, think about what would happen. I would like reach down, I would get on my laptop, I'd open it up, I'd launch a web browser, I'd start typing, and I'd have to like explain that thing, and I would hit enter, and I would wait and I would get a response. And that it as the current limit of what a current laptop can do."

The above is very r/wheredidthesoda go but it hints at the product being ambient computing related.

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Post by mrbungie »

DevKoala wrote: post #412
samtp wrote: post #355

> In the interview, Altman said Jobs would be “damn proud” of Ive’s latest move. What an extremely weird (and egotistical) thing to say if you're in Altman's position

While Sam is being egotistic, the reverence of Jobs to the point nobody is even allowed to assume how he would have thought is also weird imho.

If Ive had said that himself, it wouldn't be weird. But Sama didn't know Jobs well enough to put words in his mouth.

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Post by dowager_dan99 »

brador wrote: post #397
samtp wrote: post #355

> In the interview, Altman said Jobs would be “damn proud” of Ive’s latest move. What an extremely weird (and egotistical) thing to say if you're in Altman's position

It’s a trophy acqui-hire. Something to brag about over dinner and to investors.

so Altman's nerd-equivalent of a sexual conquest?

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Post by dyauspitr »

catigula wrote: post #452
xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

That is interesting given that reddit has gone from a cultural powerhouse to something most people talk about shamefully, if at all.

It has gone from a cultural powerhouse for a niche audience to something most people talk about.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by te_chris »

elicash wrote: post #389
tough wrote: post #320

tbh has jony ive produced any remarkable hardware piece since he left apple? Can't think of any maybe im wrong he must be buying the name or something or just the brains idk

Not sure if it counts for what you meant by hardware, since it's more art piece than a practical thing given the $60k price, but he created a record player: https://www.linn.co.uk/us/turntables/lp12-50

He macbooked an existin piece of design excellence. I get that that was the brief, but ooosshhh.

As a CMO once said to me: you don't want to hire me, you want me 5 years ago, so hire X

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by davidmurphy »

tiffanyh wrote: post #457
xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

> Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast Relevant thread where Sam acknowledges the plan. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

whoa!!
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