If this does end up being a failed coup, then it is of course detrimental to his career. But the statement I'm replying to was explicitly saying he would never work in tech again. Do you honestly believe there is any chance that Sutskever would be unable to work in this field somewhere else if he ultimately leaves OpenAI for whatever reason? I would bet $10,000 that he would have big name companies knocking on his door within days.
can he work on what he wants in those places? that is another story of course. but he knows the ins and outs of the lightning in a jar they captured and arguably that is the most promising asset on planet earth right now, so he'll be fine.
Why didnt Google create ChatGpt then, why did the fall behind?
Google is publishing a lot of research and I guess many of them will be used by other companies.
Do you know now which research will be the basis of tomorrow's most spoken tech? No. They don't either.
They are still catching up. What does this tell us?
No not really, Google has a history of not delivering or launching half baked products and then killing them quickly.
Dont worry Google will launch a new version of a Chat App with AI to fix all their previous failures