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waffletowertoday at 3:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

> when OpenAI imposed ChatGPT on the world...

OpenAI offered ChatGPT to the world. A large, monied cross-section of the world had yet to throw its capital behind the Large Language Model technology that made the ChatBot possible. While it is fair to see AI development now as a global imposition, OpenAI did not have the agency as a 2022 startup to impose on the scale we see now.


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delis-thumbs-7etoday at 4:31 PM

> A large, monied cross-section of the world

I asked Mistral, and it guestimated that Altman, Thiel, Musk, and Hoffman had like $20.3B together when they founded it. Sound to me that the founding of OpenAI was exactly the point when the monied world threw its dollars behind AI.

magicmicah85today at 3:59 PM

I agree with a lot of her points but that word really is revealing of her thoughts about OpenAI.