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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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the_arun wrote: post #392
belter wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The AI hype seems driven more by stock valuations than genuine productivity gains. Developers now spend excessive time crafting prompts and managing AI generated pull requests :-) tasks that a simple email to a junior coder could have handled efficiently. We need a study that shows the lost productivity. When CEOs aggressively promote such tech solutions, it signals we're deep into bubble territory: “If you go forwar…

Apart from developer productivity, have we seen anything made 1000x better using GenAI?

Sure, copywriting seems to be pretty much irrelevant now. Same with image generation wherever you can get away with it. The quality may be reduced in many cases but the cost is absolutely a fraction of what it used to be.

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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...

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So does openai know how to widen the context window without it taking more money? Otherwise Google wins, again. And this is all boring. Gemini 2.5 pro preview where you can just insert all files you have and actually it doesn't compress and has it in memory is just what you want. All the compression tricks etc really are shit compared. 32k input tokens is a joke now once you tried this.

As in bearish on openai if they don't offer cheaper 10m context soonish. Google will.

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chairhairair wrote: post #124
nickrubin wrote: post #7

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

Altman: "Jony was running a design firm called LoveFrom that had established itself as really the densest collection of talent that I've ever heard of in one place AND HAS PROBABLY EVER EXISTED IN THE WORLD." I felt physically sick from second-hand embarrassment watching this.

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Post by bhewes »

Classic hacker news Gnosticism making fun of a designer. The idea the iphone software ecosystem had anything to do with its success is humorous. Remember it didn't even have an app store or anyway to run local yet it was a best seller. Keep worshiping code like it doesn't run on hardware, ha.

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elicash wrote: post #493
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 w…

Ambient computing backed by a cloud.

Hard pass.

It would have to be true AGI before I’d even consider that and that’s consider.

Why do we seem determined to will the Corporate Rim into existence from the Murderbot diaries.

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mrbungie wrote: post #505
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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