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Brad Lightcap is the COO of OpenAI. He outlines a test for founders to determine whether future foundation model upgrades will accelerate their startup or render it obsolete.
“Ask the company whether a hundred X improvement in the model is something they're excited about. It's actually, we can tell pretty well because we know the companies that come to us saying, we want the next model. When is it coming out? When is it coming out? I want to be the first to try it. It's going to be the best thing for my company. And then there's a lot of companies that we don't hear from on that, in that regard. And I think that's like a pretty good delineation, is if there's a clear path to how better intelligence, better underlying intelligence accelerates that product and that company, most companies can tell that story really clearly.”
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