Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
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#2what is this article/website? it’s all very confusing. a blog post? a community post? is there an author?
I really don’t mean to concern troll or anything but this text is so bizarre, it’s like it landed from space into the middle of some random website.
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#3Not sure why the government would bother to bail them out. I would imagine Google could take up most of the slack if OpenAI implodes.
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#4This article seems very wishful, and typed up in an awkward format.
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#5"In the past few months alone, OpenAI has racked up commitments of nearly $1.5 trillion, including:
$250 billion with Microsoft - using Azure cloud platform capacity
$500 billion with Oracle - for cloud computing capacity…
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I assume these companies will eat the loss and write it off for tax purposes.
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#6If the government were to bail out, OpenAI wouldn’t that open up litigation from competitors like Google or anthropic?
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#7Not sure why the government would bother to bail them out. I would imagine Google could take up most of the slack if OpenAI implodes.
You don't typically get to be a successful politician by being skeptical of future industry profits. I suspect the people who run our country tend to be credulous rubes in this regard. Sam Altman is many things, but he appears very good at spelling a narrative about the future of computation and the relative competitive risk of not aggressively pursuing it. Google simply has not taken this approach.
Re: Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
#8what is this article/website? it’s all very confusing. a blog post? a community post? is there an author? I really don’t mean to concern troll or anything but this text is so bizarre, it’s like it landed from space into the middle of some random website.
Most likely some LLM thing creating an article by collating multiple sources.
Re: Sam Altman Is Getting Desperate and It Is Starting to Show
#9what is this article/website? it’s all very confusing. a blog post? a community post? is there an author? I really don’t mean to concern troll or anything but this text is so bizarre, it’s like it landed from space into the middle of some random website.
It looks like it’s a HN-like for stocks / market opinions.
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#10He "clarified" on twitter. I think it's very important to presume good intentions, but I have to say, I found these even more troubling than a bailout:
> What we do think might make sense is governments building (and owning) their own AI infrastructure, but then the upside of that should flow to the government as well. We can imagine a world where governments decide to offtake a lot of computing power and get to decide how to use it, and it may make sense to provide lower cost of capital to do so. Building a strategic national reserve of computing power makes a lot of sense. But this should be for the government’s benefit, not the benefit of private companies.