Altman: Concentrating entire company on single AI models works best
Sam Altman · Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues · May 10, 2024 · at 1:02:54
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, explains OpenAI's operational strategy to Chamath Palihapitiya regarding centralized resource concentration versus distributed AI research teams.
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“These systems are so complicated and concentrating bets are so important. Like one You know, at the time, before it was, like, obvious to do this, you have, like, DeepMind or whatever has all these different teams doing all these different things, and they're spreading their bets out, and you had OpenAI say, we're gonna, like, basically put the whole company and work together to make GPT-IV. And that was, like, unimaginable for how to run an AI research lab, but it is, I think what works at a minimum, it's what works for us.”
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