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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by haunter »

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.

>something most people talk about shamefully, if at all

Only if you go there for rage bait content.

Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by noir_lord »

rafram wrote: post #481
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Really? My perception (and their metrics seem to back this up) is that “normal people” are really on Reddit now. It’s the #7 most visited site in the world. It exploded during the pandemic - not just a site for internet nerds anymore.

Not even a site for internet nerds anymore.

Reddit isn’t for me any longer, when they break old.reddit.com I’m done with it, I go weeks without commenting as it is.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by astrange »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #359
sekai wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reads and looks like an obituary, lol

I was thinking more like a wedding invite

Yeah, it's meant to look like a wedding announcement in the newspaper I think. Except white-on-black instead of the other way around.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by ryanwhitney »

samtp wrote: post #391
duxup wrote: post #13

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

I'm also struggling to find the website for Ive's company that is being acquired for $6.5 billion. Maybe I'm just slow today, but does the company being acquired have a website?

They only have a landing page: https://www.lovefrom.com/

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by mrbungie »

sixQuarks wrote: post #352

This is such an obvious jump the shark moment for openAI. These types of puffery acquisitions, with a former “legend”, announced with such gusto, have never materialized into anything. You’re not gonna get breakthrough products like this. Breakthrough products just appear unexpectedly, they’re not announced a year or two ahead of time.

You know you are in front of the impending explosion of a bubble when discussions shift from products themselves and towards who will be working with whom.

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Post by gibbitz »

rafram wrote: post #481
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Really? My perception (and their metrics seem to back this up) is that “normal people” are really on Reddit now. It’s the #7 most visited site in the world. It exploded during the pandemic - not just a site for internet nerds anymore.

Everyone ads reddit to their searches to get human generated information these days. Not sure if that's still a guarantee, but it's a funny irony IRT what this thread is about...

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Post by whalesalad »

haunter wrote: post #501
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

>something most people talk about shamefully, if at all Only if you go there for rage bait content. Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.

until you get shadowbanned. my 15+ year account is dead because I logged-out of the iOS app and logged-in to the web app on my phone, it triggered the suspicious/spam filter and boom I am dead. tried many times to get it restored, no dice.

the funny thing is the only indication that this happened was keybase alerting me that my proof was gone.

I can login and use reddit as usual, but nothing I do has any effect. It's like I am in a sandbox. Try to view my profile publicly and it does not exist.

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Post by bsimpson »

whatshisface wrote: post #8
minimaxir wrote: post #3

From April: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/openai-reportedly-mulls-bu... > OpenAI is said to have discussed acquiring the AI hardware startup that former Apple design lead Jony Ive is building with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. According to The Information, OpenAI could pay around $500 million for the fledgling company, called io Products. How the heck did the price go up 13x?

Because it sounds like the CEO of OpenAI wants to use investor's money to buy his other company. Too bad we can't short it or otherwise stop it, because investment for the things we could start will dry up once the world figures this out. We're all correlated to companies like FTX whether we like them or not...

Sam and Elon are both ethically dubious power players who seem to be really good at inside dealing to benefit themselves, while all the other people in their companies just have to deal with it.

As I write this out, it reminds me of another polarizing leader who has been really good at being in the news every day for the last 6 months, and for a 4 year period a decade ago.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by qingcharles »

nickrubin wrote: post #7

OpenAI announcement: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

There's infinite money out there for AI. They're doing the rational thing and buying up everything to lock others out.

If you're going to make any sort of hardware you definitely want to tout that it was designed "with love" by "the iPod guy."

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