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>>VirusN+(OP)
Presumably he did a really good job running OpenAI- it’s not like it was pre-destined to become the company it is today.

>>fnbr+r1
>it’s not like it was pre-destined to become the company it is today

A billion dollars, Ilya Sutskever as chief scientist, and some of the most brilliant young minds in ML.

I say it was.

>>optima+h2
To be fair, deepmind, google brain, others, are are well funded and have been comparatively lackluster (commercially, they are almost certainly doing more legit academic work). And scientists like to do science, it's hard to focus them commercially. Their (openAI's) success suggests good leadership

>>versio+M4
How do you know? OpenAI isn't a commercial success, seems really unlikely they're profitable right now given their penchant for freely available and very expensive tech demos. DeepMind could be in the black based on ML optimization of Google's infra alone. Prolly not but it's at least possible.