Note that when Bill Gates praises GPT-4o, he is at least partially "talking his book": he retains large amounts of equity in Microsoft, and has been intimately

Note that when Bill Gates praises GPT-4o, he is at least partially "talking his book": he retains large amounts of equity in Microsoft, and has been intimately involved in MS's big bet on OA - in 2019, when Kevin Scott was lobbying a big investment in OA (https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/openai/2019-scott-2.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/reinforcement-learning/openai/2019-sco...), Bill Gates was CCed, Gates invested in Inflection (recently rolled up into MS), and Sam Altman & Greg Brockman personally demoed GPT-4 to Gates at his mansion (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk-page-altman.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk...) to show that GPT-4 could solve the AP Biology test that Gates had said would convince him LLMs were real. And I'm sure his involvement now goes well beyond just those few instances I've happened to note.