And they have their own people who equally know how LLMs work.
Even raising funds is not a certainty given that VCs are becoming more cautious with AI as they realise it's now a platform fight between the mega corporations.
2-3 years ago sure, but now? Maybe he knows how to reduce that need by order of magnitude.
Of course, the next -revolution- in AI could very well come from Ilya. But why would he bestow that honor to anyone? He can self fund it if he wants. It's an R&D project, not a scaling problem.
You'd think any investor would be utterly stupid to not make an exception for Ilya, regardless.
this led to the release of Gemini which was absurdly biased when viewed by the typical American.
I don't really understand that. ChatGPT is not all that impressive as an actual tool for many things. It doesn't really seem to matter to me what energy and compute is going into it. Will it make it actually work?
Just executing the client right would give someone a competitive advantage right now...
The compliance regime at big corps is definitely more sophisticated than at a player like OAI
If they focused all of their energy on, simply, a frontier AI model, and not trying to shoehorn a half-complete model into all of their products, there is no doubt they would be ahead.
But this is the innovator's dilemma, and why it is that startups are the disruptors.
Big companies move slow and lack focus. Small companies move fast and can only focus on one thing.
I would argue that is not the case. I won't re-list some of the reasons other posters mentioned, which, based on past year, appear more likely ( decisions hamstrung by corporate committees, data governance bureaucracy, and last, but not least, ideology focus ). Leadership that is actually focused on 'delivering value to the shareholder' or not being worried about first mover advantage seems only a part of it.
edit: added first mover wording
an LLM is a curiosity without user data, anyone with a big silo of data can put out something years behind frontier and still instantly see huge usage. No one wants to go to AI, they want AI to come to them, unless OpenAI can stake a claim in a super novel way they're the Dropbox.
It's not like someone is going to use insider OpenAI knowledge to build an LLM so advanced you switch email, phone, or ERP providers
It _is_ the best frontier LLM in the world, and virtually the entire global population of people who care about that are in this thread
Let's say Google's LLM has slightly poorer reasoning, and you have to be really clear when you tell it to delete your old emails. What are you going to do, go to ChatGPT and have it very eloquently walk you through how to manually delete your emails?
But the idea that Google, the terrifying nation-state, who covetously gobbled up most of the bright minds of a generation, just couldn't fathom RLHF, means you think there is some inherent magic at OpenAI.
I use OpenAI's models a lot, obviously they're great, but whole-thread-as-context as a product is not a product, and Google has people plural who could execute that from first principles.
If Apple, Google, or MS are integrating LLMs, they can't get away with "you can talk to this website". The intersection of "has the cash to train a LLM" and "LLM is itself the entire offering" is very small
If you mean the other kind of ERP they will definitely do that; it's basically all /r/localllama is about.