Microsoft preparing San Francisco offices for OpenAI employees

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Startup locked in haphazard political power struggle. Microsoft is executing at high speed over a weekend.

Next week: Chrysler cars now more reliable than Toyota.

The meme that big corps can’t move fast and that startups are nimble is a stereotype I’ve come to realize not true at all. I’ve experienced this myself, more than once.

What can feel like you’re moving fast is sometimes just churn but it doesn’t necessarily equate to progress.

Culture at OpenAI is probably more consensus driven, which can handcuff any big moves.

Just going to leave this here...

Toyota Only Plans to Make Enough Solid-State Batteries for 10k Cars in 2030: https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-only-plans-to-make-enou...

Chrysler confirms its next new model will be an all-electric crossover: https://electrek.co/2023/11/08/chrysler-confirms-next-model-...

Gotta have those Mac laptops for the wunderkind of AI.

You can also SSH into your $50,000 Nvidia cluster with an iPad, if it suits you better. So many options!

$50,000?

More like $400,000: https://shop.lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/servers/hyperplane...

Microsoft preparing to print the money used to pay OpenAI employees!

Is this even journalism?

Meanwhile they seem like wanting to keep things as they are, with a new board.

If I was Satya, I wouldn't be very pleased with how Sam Altam is managing the, "I go, maybe not, actually yes, not really sure,..."

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