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Brockman is with Sam, which makes them a formidable duo. Should they choose to, they will offer stiff competition to OpenAI but they may not even want to compet
by deepGem 3y ago
Brockman is with Sam, which makes them a formidable duo. Should they choose to, they will offer stiff competition to OpenAI but they may not even want to compete.
- kazamaloo 3y agoFor a company to be as successful as OpenAI, two people won't cut it. OpenAI arguably has the best ML talent at the moment. Talent attracts talent. People come for Sutskever, Karpathy, and alike -- not for Altman or Brockman.
- ignoramous 3y agoPachocki, Director of Research, just quit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378 Real chance of an exodus, which will be an utter shame.
- aidaman 3y agoaccording to one of the researchers who left, Simon, the engineering piece is more important. and many of their best engineers leading GPT5 and ChatGPT left (Brockman, Pachocki, and Simon)
- snordgren 3y agoMoney also attracts talent. An OpenAI competitor led by the people who led OpenAI to its leading position should be able to raise a lot of money.
- jk20 3y agoMoney also attracts various "snout in the trough" types who need to get rid of anyone who may challenge them as for their abilities or merits.
- mv4 3y agoMoney attracts talent as well. Altman knows how to raise money. 2018 NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...
- csomar 3y agoWell good thing we are in an open economy where anyone can start his own AI thing and no one wants to prevent him from doing that… I hope you see the /s.
- baq 3y agoLiterally ask around for a billion dollars, how hard can it be?