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Same funding as OpenAI when they started, but SSI explicitly declared their intention not to release a single product until superintelligence is reached. Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era?
$1B raise, $5B valuation. For a company that is a couple months old and doesn't have a product or even a single line of code in production. Wild.
Given OpenAI’s declining performance after his being sidelined and then departing, interested to see what they do. Should be a clear demonstration of who was really driving innovation there.
Given OpenAI’s declining performance after his being sidelined and then departing, interested to see what they do. Should be a clear demonstration of who was really driving innovation there.
Probably will be an unpopular opinion here but I think declining performance is more likely related to unclear business models backed by immature technology driven by large hype trains they themselves created.
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Welcome to capitalism. It’s all about your existing capital and connections. Capital attracts capital.
Talent attracts capital. Ilya is a legendary visionary, with a proven track record of turning billions into hundreds of billions. Of course he can raise unlimited money.
Getting funded by a16z is if anything a sign that the field is not hot anymore.
Same funding as OpenAI when they started, but SSI explicitly declared their intention not to release a single product until superintelligence is reached. Closest thing we have to a Manhattan Project in the modern era?
There is significant possibility that true AI (what Ilia calls superintelligence) is impossible to build using neural networks. So it is closer to some tokenbro project than to nuclear research. Or he will simply shift goalposts, and call some LLM superintelligent.
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It's because is Ilya. This deal was cooked way back, though, perhaps even before the coup. Now, can they make a product that makes at least $1B + 1 dollar in revenue? Doubt it, I honestly don't see a market for "AI safety/security".
I wonder if "Super Intelligence" means anything .. just LLMs, or maybe they are pursuing new architectures and shooting for AGI ?
"It will focus on building a small highly trusted team of researchers and engineers split between Palo Alto, California and Tel Aviv, Israel." Why Tel Aviv in Israel ?