[mlnj]

What else are they going to do with all that money?

Raise billions and billions under the guise of AGI coming tomorrow and they just become a too big to fail company gobbling up any competition.

You don't hear anyone touting AGI anymore do we?

[mattlondon]

> You don't hear anyone touting AGI anymore do we?

Apart from, y'know, DeepMind - remember those guys? The ones with the SOTA models at the top of the leaderboards? The ones who just launched Veo3 and blew everyone away?

It feels like OpenAI has kinda jumped-the-shark at this stage. They don't seem to be especially competitive any more, and all the news coming out of them is tinkering at the edges or acquisitions that no-one really cares about.

When are they going to start competing on actual AI again?

[mlnj]

I meant from Open AI.

After a lot of the drama and a ton of talent leaving all they seem to have left now is a pile of cash that they can spend eliminating competition. Meanwhile like others have rightly pointed out, talent at Google and even Mistral have been crushing it.

[kridsdale1]

90s Netscape vibes

[mattlondon]

I feel like history is repeating itself yes, but actually I was thinking more a out Google.

Everyone was saying "oh man - Google had all this tech and they sat on it and just couldn't move forwards, then they blew their lead and OpenAI came a long and smoked them!"... Now it feels like it is OpenAI who are repeating that story, blowing their lead they got with the original ChatGPT while that upstart Google schools them in model development and vertical integration.

Interesting times. Very interesting times. C'mon OpenAI, move the SOTA forward!

[WorldPeas]

At least Netscape's offering was actually continuously open (after 98 at least)