OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
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OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
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#2Discussion (274 points, 2 days ago, 315 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521744
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#3So tired of people asking for giant piles of money that are high enough to corner a market.
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#4So tired of people asking for giant piles of money that are high enough to corner a market.
And due to the lack of a moat, no amount of money can do that easily.
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#5and yet deepseek just created an amazing model with the fraction of their compute resources
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#6Discussion (274 points, 2 days ago, 315 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521744
This is a link to an editorial by John Gruber, so not necessarily the same discussion.
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#7Where is all the money going? Nvidia hardware?
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#8Where is all the money going? Nvidia hardware?
And compute.
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#9In all fairness regarding his comment about Netscape - anyone who invested in Netscape at the IPO (and certainly before the IPO) at $2.9B - made a ton of money on the Internet. On the last day of trading, after the AOL exit 4 years it was worth (cash, stock, etc...) around $10B. Thank Mike Homer for pushing that one through, and Jim Barksdale for being savvy enough to recognize it as the right play.
Re: OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’
#10Plot twist: OpenAI uses their GPU farms to mine cryptocurrency so that they get those unimaginable sums of money