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Post by socialcommenter »

flessner wrote: post #318
rgbrenner wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the security risk wasnt taken by OpenClaw. Releasing vulnerable software that users run on their own machines isn't going to compromise OpenClaw itself. It can still deliver value for it's users while also requiring those same users to handle the insecurity of the software themselves (by either ignoring it or setting up sandboxes, etc to reduce the risk, and then maybe that reduced risk is weighed against the nov…

I am guessing there will be an OpenClaw "competitor" targeting Enterprise within the next 1-2 months. If OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini are fast and smart about it they could grab some serious ground. OpenClaw showed what an "AI Personal Assistant" should be capable of. Now it's time to get it in a form-factor businesses can safely use.

With the guard rails up, right? Right?

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Post by btbuildem »

lumost wrote: post #398

Personal agents disrupt OpenAI’s revenue plan. They had been planning to put ads in ChatGPT to make revenue. If users rapidly move to personal agents which are more resistant to ads, running on a blend of multiple models/compute providers - then they won’t be able to deliver their revenue promises.

> had been planning to put ads in ChatGPT

As per the new terms of service, the ads are already in

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by sigmar »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #435

OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness. My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing. OpenAI must be laughing their heads off. Beads and blankets.

>effectively handing over the crown jewels

lol. what?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by wewewedxfgdf »

yellow_lead wrote: post #438
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #435

OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness. My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing. OpenAI must be laughing their heads off. Beads and blankets.

What crown jewels? Isn't openclaw, errr "open" source?

Elastic (Elasticsearch) – ~6.5 B USD

MongoDB – ~30 B USD

Docker – Private (~2+ B USD last valuation)

Redis Ltd. – Private (~2 B USD last valuation)

Grafana Labs – Private (~6 B USD last valuation)

Confluent (Apache Kafka) – ~11 B USD

Cloudera (Apache Hadoop) – 5.3 B USD (acquired)

SUSE Linux – ~2.5 B USD

Red Hat – 34 B USD (acquired)

HashiCorp – 6.4 B USD (acquired)

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by lofaszvanitt »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #184
koakuma-chan wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of crazy that this kind of thing can cause so much hype. It is even useful? I just really don't see any utility in being able to access an LLM via Telegram or whatever.

A lot of the functionality I'm not using because of security concerns, but a lot of the magic comes down to just having a platform for orchestrating AI agents. It's honestly nice just for simple sysadmin stuff "run this cron job and text me a tl;dr if anything goes wrong" or simple personal assistant tasks like"remind me if anyone messaged me a question in the last 3 days and I haven't answered". It's also cool havin…

but why?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by dangus »

The tone of this blog post reads as incredibly snobby, self-congratulatory, main character syndrome.

Please dispense with the “change the world” bullshit.

I understand that it’s healthy to celebrate your personal victories but in this context with this bro going to OpenAI to make 7 figures, maaaan I don’t think this guy needs our clicks.

On top of that there’s a better than 50% chance OpenAI suffocates the open source project and the alternative will be a paid privacy nightmare.

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Post by simbleau »

TSiege wrote: post #336

There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing. 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worrie…

I think they want the man and ideas behind the most useful AI tool thus far. Surprisingly, and OpenAI may see this - it is a developer tool.

OpenAI needs a popular consumer tool. Until my elderly mother is asking me how to install an AI assistant like OpenClaw, the same way she was asking me how to invest in the "new blockchains" a few years ago, we have not come close to market saturation.

OpenAI knows the market exists, but they need to educate the market. What they need is to turn OpenClaw into a project that my mother can use easily.

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Post by Der_Einzige »

sheept wrote: post #427
nosuchthing wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (November 2025) https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe... Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560 Other words removed: responsibly unconstrained safe positive

The headline implies they selectively removed the word "safely," but that doesn't seem to be the case. From the thread you linked, there's a diff of mission statements over the years[0], which reveals that "safely" (which was only added 2 years prior) was removed only because they completely rewrote the statement into a single, terse sentence. There could be stronger evidence to prove if OpenAI is deemphasizing safet…

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