By the middle of the 2030's the world we live in will be unrecognizable.
Discovery Loop
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#52The problem is all these new labs don't have any competitive advanatge amongst each other, talent can only take one so far, though Jeff is a legend no doubt. Models are commodities the applications eg. BaseTen, OpenRouter should capture the value. https://taikhooms.substack.com/p/why-openrouter-can-be-the-n...
The company is developing an application, or a class of applications. Not a new model.
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#54From Jeff's twitter post: > Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and engineering, but believe the approach can help with important subproblems in nearly every one of the fourteen NAE Grand Challenge problems. We think doing this well requires strong expertise…
Acquisition back by Google in 3 years, with nothing to show for it. VCs will make a ton.
and... the VC is Google.
Gotta compensate them somehow.
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#55From Jeff's twitter post: > Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and engineering, but believe the approach can help with important subproblems in nearly every one of the fourteen NAE Grand Challenge problems. We think doing this well requires strong expertise…
Acquisition back by Google in 3 years, with nothing to show for it. VCs will make a ton.
My thoughts exactly
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#56The site itself is really leaning into the “made with Fable” aesthetic
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#57I wonder if Jeff Dean facts [1] (I hope people remember the reference) will carry over to the new startup. [1] https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
«Jeff Dean's PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.» I had not read this before, but told many students the same about my PIN code and I a quiz about the last digits. Love it.
0000 in base pi. Oh Jeff.
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#58By the middle of the 2030's the world we live in will be unrecognizable.
I agree, for better or for worse.
If I had to bet my money, it would be on "for worse".
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#59To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup. They truly deserve it, but I don't expect a huge success as a business. That said, I hope they write cool papers with various peers across the industry without worrying too much about the competing dynamics. That'd be a blessing for humanity, and good for their spirit.
A public benefit corp shouldn’t be a start up. The primary goal of a start up is to grow as quickly as possible which is rarely benefits the public. Very silly to call every non start up a lifestyle business. It’s just a business. Start up are the weird thing that almost always an obscene waste of time and money, but sometime creates google.
Fair point. Their page doesn't list any investors.
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#60"Our mission is straightforward" continued by the most complex sentence on that page. Wondering what the definition of straightforward is now