> “One of the things I love about Sam is every day he’s calling me and saying, ‘I need more, I need more, I need more,’” Nadella told The New York Times in a recent interview.
OpenAI is trying to create AGI, but it's unclear whether or not that will pan out.
They're also scrambling to create lots of products, but they don't seem to have a moat thanks to open models and fierce competition.
OpenAI has the most diverse assortment of models, APIs, and products, but that won't matter if other verticals or platforms can out-compete with hyper focus.
So half of the company is trying to will a new FAANG into existence within a few short years. That's pretty wild, honestly, and I wish them the best of luck.
The other half of the company is trying to create an AGI god. It feels like DeepMind is much better poised to make progress here.
I imagine if they keep raising capital then they won't, but if FB keeps releasing high quality open models they might suck the air out of the room.
I think Meta's long game is to have it's own AI products as they only AIs allowed in the Meta ecosystem. Right now it's a silly chatbot, but advanced AI + Metaverse could change everything.
Imagine an AI model of the world's best Italian tutor, students with Quest headsets taking virtual trips to Rome.
Even a cheap language tutor is 20$ an hour. With AI it'll basically be free.
And that's one subject, think about physics, mechanics, medicine? All taught in VR with advanced AI.
It's a trillion dollar opportunity. If I was a bit younger I'd be prototyping this right now and trying to get a startup going. I'm older and fully understand such software will take hundreds of millions to build...
Still , Meta has that potential. I'm very excited for the future of this space.
Our lack of foresight 20 years ago about how emerging technologies like social media and ad tech would eventually be used against us can be forgiven, we were naive.
