They are devoting enormous resources to studying LLM safety - my assumption is they’re trying to push the limits of what’s possible with autonomous agents befor

They are devoting enormous resources to studying LLM safety - my assumption is they’re trying to push the limits of what’s possible with autonomous agents before someone else does. If you can build a bot to beat an open world game as complex as Minecraft, you’re pretty close to automating an enormous amount of jobs and potentially doing some destructive stuff. This seems like an aquihire to kickstart that initiative. Full disclosure this is a complete assumption, could just as well be on the whims of Sama. I’m skeptical of the other answers here - OpenAI is perfectly capable of hiring some of the best PM’s in the world without having to buy a company.