Well for one, Ilya was poached from Google to work for OpenAI to eventually help build SOTA models. Fast forward to today and we a discussing the implications

Well for one, Ilya was poached from Google to work for OpenAI to eventually help build SOTA models. Fast forward to today and we a discussing the implications of him leaving OpenAI on this very thread. Evidence to support the notion that you can’t just throw mountains of cash and engineers at a problem to do something truly trailblazing.