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Ilya will literally have a blank check from almost all the VC's in the industry.

>>htrp+(OP)
And probably all of the big tech CEOs are trying to get him on the phone right now.

>>htrp+(OP)
Most of the VCs have already spent their money in the last couple of years.

So he may have a blank check but not nearly enough to build an OpenAI competitor.

Would love to see him at IBM with full use of their quantum systems.

>>threes+H
> Would love to see him at IBM with full use of their quantum systems.

I’m picturing a Wild Wild West-style mad scientist, creating a steampunk army from old spare parts from Big Blue and rising up to challenge the cyber people.

>>mupuff+w
Wouldn’t they have had convos weeks ago and this is just making it official?

Sure some people do ‘jump off the burning platform’, but most like to have some alternative options worked out.

>>threes+H
> Most of the VCs have already spent their money in the last couple of years.

Lol no. There is about ~$500B in VC dollars, not to mention $1.2T in buyout dry powder still floating around. Not to mention venture funds raised continue to grow YoY.

https://www.bain.com/globalassets/noindex/2024/bain_report_g...

>>mc32+J1
well he already mentioned a new project in the original tweet, so need to speculate, it sounds like he's already decided

>>htrp+(OP)
Well, no.

No VC who wants anything to do with OpenAI would invest in Ilya.

Ilya represents the anti-OpenAI ethos. So it would only be a VC who would be comfortable publicly being an anti-OpenAI VC, which is not that many.

>>htrp+(OP)
He showed exceptionally bad judgement, judgement is perhaps the most important characteristic of high level employees.

He's brilliant, which means someone will take a leap of faith, but he badly, badly damaged his brand as a leader going forward.

>>GreedI+23
Bad judgement? Sam Altman is a prolific liar who attempted to oust a board member by spreading different lies to different people. He's not even an engineer! He has established a cult of personality and popularity, and that's it. They were absolutely right to try to oust him. The only mistake was in doing so in such a ham-fisted manner.

>>mupuff+w
That would be highly irresponsible of them to hire someone who went directly against leadership with an attempted coup.

Stability will most likely make him CEO.

>>mbesto+R1
I was referring more specifically to the AI segment.

Many of the VCS are over-exposed and still need to have funds to cover follow-on investments in the space. Not buying that there is the widespread appetite to fund a multi-billion new startup like there was a year or two ago.

>>hipade+d4
He was on the board! He was leadership!

>>tempsy+Q2
> Ilya represents the anti-OpenAI ethos.

Can you elaborate more on this? What are some of the things the anti-OpenAI ethos stands for? And why do you think Ilya represents that given he was such a major part of OpenAI for so long?

>>freedo+V4
Am I taking crazy pills or something? Because he was the one who tried to oust Sam like 6 months ago? Did we just all forget that or what?

Again, why would any VC give Ilya money if that in any way signals that they are supporting someone who tried to oust the CEO of OpenAI from within? They wouldn't.

>>Zoomer+r3
Starting something without a very good plan or being unable to execute on it is a sign of bad judgment.

>>mupuff+w
Except all the big tech CEOs have head AI honchos who are huge names in their own right, eg yann for meta and demis for Google. Probably couldn't bring him into those places without ruffling some pretty big feathers

>>threes+p4
Some sources are needed to back those claims up. Which VCs are you talking about?

>>tempsy+a5
Because he is one of the big brains behind GPT-4; you know, the thing that propelled OpenAI there?

>>Increa+w8
Not Apple... At least as far as I known.

>>afefer+Nc
But Apple now seemed to enter some kind of agreement with OpenAI, not sure if Ilya or OpenAI would want to work together even via proxy.

>>htrp+(OP)
All the executives are computer science majors …

>>htrp+(OP)
Nope. His non-competes are likely very restrictive.

>>surfin+Nt
Non-competes were invalid in the state of California, and now are in the entirety of the U.S. [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...

>>zandre+Du
What about NDAs? Are those not enforceable too?

>>Zoomer+r3
> Bad judgement?

> Sam Altman is a prolific liar who attempted to oust a board member by spreading different lies to different people

Correct, it would be bad judgement. Because if he really believe in that statement, that Sam Altman is a hyper competent liar and manipulator, doing what Ilya did just led to Sam getting the keys to the kingdom.

This shows extraordinary incompetence from him and the rest of the board.

>>tempsy+Q2
VC wants to make money, and there’s a very high probability he can make somebody a lot of it.

>>surfin+Nt
I just want to point out that you have noted this falsehood like five times in this thread already. Noncompetes have been unenforceable in California since 2008, and for over a month federally.

>>bpiche+PJ
Noncompetes have been illegal in CA for much longer than that. It is literally the reason Silicon Valley exists; Fairchild couldn't enforce theirs.

>>int_19+Sa
Tell me you don't understand optics and politics without telling me. There's a tiny handful of VCs who have the guts to fund someone who organized a coup against OpenAI.

>>tempsy+Fe2
A "coup" against Putin would be a coup against Russia? Yes, you are taking crazy pills.