[bustling-noose]

Sam Altman should have sold OpenAI to Musk for 90$ billion or whatever he was willing to pay (assuming he was serious like he bought twitter). While I find LLMs interesting and feel many places could use those, I also think this is like hitting everything with a hammer and see where the nail was. People used OpenAI as a hammer until it was popular and now everyone would like to go their way. For 90$ billion he could find the next hammer or not care. But when the value of this hammer drops (not if it's a when) he will be lucky if he can get double digits for it. Maybe someone will buy them just for the customer base but these models can become obsolete quickly and that leaves OpenAI with absolutely nothing else as a company. Even the talent would leave (a lot of it has). Musk and Altman share the same ego, but if I was Altman, I would cash out when the market is riding on a high.

[AlexSW]

There are reasons for not wanting to sell their brainchild to Musk (of all people) that don't involve money.

[arresin]

Why is that?

[hnfong]

Being perceived as the boss of the most powerful company when AGI arrives is probably worth more than whatever little stock he holds...

[bagacrap]

Why do that when they can sell to SoftBank for $300B?