When I think of OpenAI, I often think of WeWork: charismatic founder, immense valuation, questionable business plan, and the possibility of similar immense deflation in their valuation, if confidence wavers.
But sometimes I have heard others compare OpenAI to Theranos, which was basically a fraud. Another charismatic founder, another ridiculous valuation, and another collapse. It’s not a crazy suggestion, but I’ve generally avoided making that analogy, since OpenAI has consistently shipped products. Those products have not by a longshot lived up to everyone’s expectations, but they do actually ship, and customers can try those products out and decide for themselves. It’s hard to call that smoke and mirrors.
But then again, their products have always been served with large side order of bullshit, like when Sam said, apparently jokingly, that “AGI has been achieved internally”. None of the robot stuff they promised in the Rubik’s cube campaign ever shipped.
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