The elusive race for AI talent, AI Infrastructure supremacy and vague post AGI treasures. 💰👑 Home burglary at OpenAI cause them to pause on 80 hour work weeks.
Moving their top talent into MSL means changing focus from productized AI to long-horizon research. That appears to be a big bet, and one that likely pulls resources away from more grounded initiatives. On the other hand, saying they want “superintelligence” without committing to open science or transparent benchmarks just adds lip service to the noise. It is hard to separate real progress from PR in this space.
The mercenary element to this does have a dark side. Mark Zuckerberg is known for his rather brutal tactics when it comes to competition and stifling perceived competition.
OpenAI also later poached from Apple too - Ruoming Pang, the person in charge of Apple’s foundation models team.
Moving their top talent into MSL means changing focus from productized AI to long-horizon research. That appears to be a big bet, and one that likely pulls resources away from more grounded initiatives. On the other hand, saying they want “superintelligence” without committing to open science or transparent benchmarks just adds lip service to the noise. It is hard to separate real progress from PR in this space.
Some analysts figure that the founding team of Meta's superintelligence lab cost the company about 3 billion dollars.
"as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something"
Well, if they treat people as property that can be stolen, what else do they expect? 🤷🏻
The mercenary element to this does have a dark side. Mark Zuckerberg is known for his rather brutal tactics when it comes to competition and stifling perceived competition.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman isn't exactly the world's paragon of virtues.
When the tech moguls are at each other's throats, I take out the popcorn.