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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by peter_l_downs »

localfirst wrote: post #61
htrp wrote: post #43

Ilya will literally have a blank check from almost all the VC's in the industry.

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First: Ilya in particular will be able to raise easily regardless of general market conditions because of his experience and track record.

Second:

> allow me to assist in your understanding of the bigger picture: large funds use VCs as money mules to increase Nvidia GPU sales through investments in AI startups and this is not sustainable.

You have to be trolling (or I'm misunderstanding?) if you're arguing that a large proportion of VC investments are at the direction of LPs who are long NVIDIA, for the sole purpose of furthering that long.

> if large funds are unloading their shares, if executives are cashing out their stock options, who is left to buy the bags?

Literally the buyers purchasing the shares that the large funds and executives are selling.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by CooCooCaCha »

ren_engineer wrote: post #18

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

Could be a clever play. They sandwiched google io with news which has taken attention from Google. Plus they just had a big announcement so the negative news hits a little less hard.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by mvkel »

breadwinner wrote: post #45

Ilya knows how ChatGPT works. Any company that hires him will be able to catch up with ChatGPT.

Catching up right now is not a matter of tech innovation, but raw energy and compute.

Of course, the next -revolution- in AI could very well come from Ilya. But why would he bestow that honor to anyone? He can self fund it if he wants. It's an R&D project, not a scaling problem.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by ru552 »

ptero wrote: post #24
ren_engineer wrote: post #18

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

"Get next major feature to release and you can go as a friend" might have been part of an earlier agreement.

More like they iced him for the last 6 months to ensure he wasn’t taking their lead to a competitor. He probably hasn’t touched anything in that time.

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by localfirst »

peter_l_downs wrote: post #131
localfirst wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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First: Ilya in particular will be able to raise easily regardless of general market conditions because of his experience and track record. Second: > allow me to assist in your understanding of the bigger picture: large funds use VCs as money mules to increase Nvidia GPU sales through investments in AI startups and this is not sustainable. You have to be trolling (or I'm misunderstanding?) if you're arguing that a lar…

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by dboreham »

deadbabe wrote: post #41
llamaimperative wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So dissolve it, return the money, go start a commercial enterprise, then raise some money.

I’m sure that’s what each and every member of Hackernews would have done in the same position.

Sure, after fees and expenses..
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