OpenAI

“And with their relationship with OpenAI, we said this is the time for us to really leverage our Microsoft relationship and the great partnership with them, and we committed to put a billion dollars behind that, and that billion dollars really goes to a couple …”

“I didn't know they were going to launch ChatGPT when they were doing it. That was outside my awareness and focus.”

“And I think there's a fundamental tension here in that sort of misalignment of the governance structure, the corporate structure, the mission, integrity, and purpose. All of that feels like that was a fundamental disconnect.”

“Well, I think one of the key things that OpenAI has stayed true to that relatively few of the other players are internalized to the degree to which OpenAI does it, which is a scale compute.”

“People say, well, it's all about the size of the model you're training. So it'll be open AI, Google, Microsoft, you know, and that's it. And you're like, well, no, actually, in fact, there's going to be a lot more than just the size of the model you're trainin…”

“And then when the governance crisis happened and, you know, I got some phone calls from both the outgoing board and, Sam and Greg and others were, you know I'm paraphrasing, but there was some mutual trust that I could help mediate the outcome and there weren'…”

“This is a geopolitical issue, not simply a technology issue. So the committee is a combination of both members of the board and members of management to provide, you know, broadly oversight and governance on safety decision-making around the models.”

“I think to some extent, to some of the big AI companies, you see the same thing, and so you see the big players like Andreessen, or you see Microsoft investing in OpenAI, like, you need really, really deep pockets to be successful. I think it's harder for the …”

“Yeah, and I did actually lead the first kind of commercial round and into OpenAI.”

“I don't actually think That how do you get people to trust us is the problem. I think too much trust is the problem is the first thing I'd say.”

“And with OpenAI, we said, hey, here we are, let's talk. And they said, great, let's make a deal. We will pay you for the right to license your content and the right to have RAG. We will include you in sort of planning sessions as we figure out the future of se…”

“There's high-profile cases where people have psychotic breaks because they have, like, delusions of grandeur and things like that, and ChatGPT is, like, reinforcing that, and that's, like, really bad.”

“And so we just introduced a set of AI integration. So now if you ask Replit, like, Make me an app that takes a prompt, generates an image model, audio model, puts them together, or something like that. It's so simple. You don't have to do anything. Just put in…”