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>would head over to Sam’s startup

Why? I see a lot of hero-worship for Sam, but very little concrete facts about what he's done to make this a success.

And given his history, I'm inclined to believe he just got lucky.

>>whokno+(OP)
He presumably can attract investors?

>>wwtrv+O3
If that was the only issue, why not just go to Google, Meta, or Microsoft directly to work on their AI stuff? What do you really need Altman for?

Working at OpenAI meant working on GPT-4 (and whatever is next in line), which is attractive because it's the best thing in the field right now by a significant margin.

>>wwtrv+O3
So can Dario Amodei and Mustafa Suleyman.

>>whokno+(OP)
OpenAI is very conspicuously the only lab that (a) managed to keep the safety obsessives in their box, (b) generate huge financial upside for its employees and (c) isn't run by a researcher.

If Altman's contribution had simply been signing deals for data and compute then keeping staff fantasies under control, that already makes him unique in that space and hyper valuable. But he also seems to have good product sense. If you remember, the researchers originally didn't want to do chatgpt because they thought nobody would care.