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An AI company owning a major tech podcast? Wow, what’s next? Ecommerce giants owning major newspapers? An aerospace company owning a microblogging platform? S

by mlinsey 6mo ago

An AI company owning a major tech podcast? Wow, what’s next? Ecommerce giants owning major newspapers? An aerospace company owning a microblogging platform? Startup accelerators owning tech news aggregators?

yieldcrv 6mo ago
states should remove the "purpose" field of incorporation statutes, its too antiquated now and for half a century
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bfeynman 6mo ago
Robinhood did exact same thing, it's more for marketing reach and distribution stuff. Wouldn't be surprised in few years they let it go or spin it down, just paying for a funnel/some narrative control
angrydev 6mo ago
Wait a second...
operatingthetan 6mo ago
Shouldn't OpenAI be focused on becoming profitable and surviving the next 2 years instead of buying podcast toys?
kingleopold 6mo ago
AI will eat all Media, all of it.
Topfi 6mo ago
If the vast majority of CEOs in this industry are to be believed, any company that achieves "AGI" will be undefeatable, their model improvements and research findings impossible to catch up to. Why risk that being Anthropic, Moonshot or any other competitor to OpenAI by spending your money on this? The few months/years before "Everyone dies", wouldn't OpenAI want to be the "Anyone" that "build it" and is in control during that time? Unless, of course, OpenAI does not actually believe in that being a possibility, as suspected when they were working on social media...
- df2sdf 6mo ago
  This is some insane delusion. Focus on building a great product and you win. All this other stuff is noise.
- mlinsey 6mo ago
  I admit I'm surprised by the move, from a company that reportedly just talked about how they need to focus more on fewer, more strategic products. But I also see the potential value. This is an entertaining and highly influential podcast, a lot of top VC's and founders watch it; it definitely punches well above it's audience KPI's in strategic value. I've seen many interviews or op-eds on the platform pretty clearly shape the startup discourse on X. I also think it should run mostly autonomously, it'll only be as much of a distraction for OpenAI execs as they want it to be. OpenAI just raised $122 billion (including future commitments), so whatever the purchase price was (we have no diea) is not going to even be a rounding error on their financial resources or their ability to pay their datacenter bills.
nticompass 6mo ago
Is TBPN really considered "major" (seeing as most of the comments I've seen are how no one's heard of them before) or are you just being sarcastic?

by mlinsey 6mo ago

yieldcrv 6mo ago

states should remove the "purpose" field of incorporation statutes, its too antiquated now and for half a century

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bfeynman 6mo ago

Robinhood did exact same thing, it's more for marketing reach and distribution stuff. Wouldn't be surprised in few years they let it go or spin it down, just paying for a funnel/some narrative control

angrydev 6mo ago

Wait a second...

operatingthetan 6mo ago

Shouldn't OpenAI be focused on becoming profitable and surviving the next 2 years instead of buying podcast toys?

kingleopold 6mo ago

AI will eat all Media, all of it.

Topfi 6mo ago

If the vast majority of CEOs in this industry are to be believed, any company that achieves "AGI" will be undefeatable, their model improvements and research findings impossible to catch up to. Why risk that being Anthropic, Moonshot or any other competitor to OpenAI by spending your money on this? The few months/years before "Everyone dies", wouldn't OpenAI want to be the "Anyone" that "build it" and is in control during that time? Unless, of course, OpenAI does not actually believe in that being a possibility, as suspected when they were working on social media...

df2sdf 6mo ago
This is some insane delusion. Focus on building a great product and you win. All this other stuff is noise.
mlinsey 6mo ago
I admit I'm surprised by the move, from a company that reportedly just talked about how they need to focus more on fewer, more strategic products. But I also see the potential value. This is an entertaining and highly influential podcast, a lot of top VC's and founders watch it; it definitely punches well above it's audience KPI's in strategic value. I've seen many interviews or op-eds on the platform pretty clearly shape the startup discourse on X. I also think it should run mostly autonomously, it'll only be as much of a distraction for OpenAI execs as they want it to be. OpenAI just raised $122 billion (including future commitments), so whatever the purchase price was (we have no diea) is not going to even be a rounding error on their financial resources or their ability to pay their datacenter bills.

nticompass 6mo ago

Is TBPN really considered "major" (seeing as most of the comments I've seen are how no one's heard of them before) or are you just being sarcastic?