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Wasn't the plan AGI, not ROI on offering services based on current gen AI models. AGI was the winner takes all holy grail, so all this money was just buying lottery tickets in hopes of striking AGI first. At least that how I remember it, but AGI dreams may have been hampered by lack of exponential improvement in last year.

[brookst]

I’m sure somebody believed that? But I never met them.

[latexr]

> I’m sure somebody believed that?

“Somebody” like… Sam Altman? Because he said that’s what he actually believes.

https://www.startupbell.net/post/sam-altman-told-investors-b...

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As sibling commentor mentions, Zuckerberg is dropping billions on AGI currently (or "super human intelligence", whatever the difference is). And, I don't have time to find it, but maybe Sam Altman might've said AGI is the ultimate goal at somepoint - idk, I don't pay too much attention to this stuff tbh, you'll have to look it up if you're interested.

Oh and John Carmack, of Doom fame, went off to do AGI research and raised a modest 20(?) million last I heard.

[nwsm]

I want to say Mark Zuckerberg but I think Meta's investment is also targeted at creating their own social media content