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>>convex+(OP)
This is Olek Madry and Jakub Pachocki we are talking about. Check out their respective dblps if you don't get it. It's a kind of loss that will be hard to recover from.

In relation to other comments here. There is "coding" and there is "God's spark genius of algorithms" kind of work. This is what made the magic of OpenAI. Believe me, those guys were not "just coding". My bet is that it could be all about some research directions that were "shielded" by Sam.

>>suziem+Uy
> There is "coding" and there is "God's spark genius of algorithms" kind of work.

I really don't buy that for a second. Most of OpenAI's value compared to any competitor comes from the money they spent hiring humans to trawl through training data.

>>throwa+lJ
And their competition didn’t had the same resources?

>>motobo+GN
This is a handful of people we are talking about. The top algorithimic world is incredibly small.

In short, either they didn't or where unable to create a favorable enough environment for this to flourish.