Sutskever is starting a new company:
See the Hacker News discussion for more information/discussion:
And he has now raised some serious funding:
This surprises me: although I would expect venture capital firms to phonily talk about how much they support AI safety, I wouldn’t expect them to actually provide serious cash to back it.
OpenAI started with similar goals. Maybe these investors are hoping for the same result.
OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Sunday said that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than the company expected.
“I personally chose the price,” Altman wrote in a series of posts on X, “and thought we would make some money.”
OpenAI isn’t profitable, despite having raised around $20 billion since its founding. The company reportedly expected losses of about $5 billion on revenue of $3.7 billion last year.
Gonna have to raise that price point a bit, Sam. Wonder how elastic demand is.
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Some of the best scenes came out of Stringer Bell running a legitimate business.
“N****r, is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”
He was definitely the Michael Corleone figure of The Wire except he didn’t know how to deal with white collar corruption. He should have put a horse’s head in his building contractor’s bed and framed Clay Davis with a dead prostitute (“Sheeeeeeeeet!) but failing to take out Omar and Brother Mouzone was his ultimate downfall.
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Stringer Bell thought he was smarter - and perhaps better - than the people around him, including Avon (who knew it).
And Sam Altman seems to believe that he is smarter than everyone else, and indeed, he has been canny enough the people who oppose him on the basis of safety and reliability removed, and indeed, the original safety board disbanded and replaced with his handpicked supplicants (initially including himself, although ‘graciously’ stepped down to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest). Altman is clearly one of the “smartest guys in the room”, in a manner invoking Enron and WorldCom.
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And for you naysayers here:
We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies.