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Could OpenAI acquire Reddit as an alternative to their IPO? Let's say it's worth $10B - quite a sum especially if OpenAI is 'only' worth $40B - $50B. But a worl
by corry 3y ago
Could OpenAI acquire Reddit as an alternative to their IPO? Let's say it's worth $10B - quite a sum especially if OpenAI is 'only' worth $40B - $50B. But a world in which compute isn't a moat, LLMs aren't a moat... but real human-generated content IS a moat... maybe it could make sense?
- whimsicalism 3y ago$10b is probably too low
- gwd 3y agoI mean, that would be kind of insane, but it could actually work: OpenAI needs "clean", high-quality data as input for its AI; rather than harvesting data to sell to advertisers, they could and finance major internet infrastructure -- the equivalents of StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook -- to harvest data to feed their models. That might actually make the world a better place.
- sebzim4500 3y agoWhy would you pay $10B for data which you can scrape for $50 from a few seedboxes? Or if that's too much work for you, just download one of them many archives that are already freely available online.