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Altman is a new era conman, he does not have any vision whatsoever.

thank you

The branding is all you need to know about his vision: "Open"AI..

He's very good at doing startup/scaleup management, in a ruthless/snakey skill level. I think that's something everyone can agree.

But vision? I'm not so sure, he had great company and help along the way, and now that he has been left alone (arguably due to his own actions) he's selling the image of competence in areas that he hasn't demonstrated skills whatsoever. We'll see.

Clearly? I don’t think that’s certain at all.

For me, OpenAI's venture into AI adjacent things (Windsurf, JI's company), is a signal that they are no longer seriously pursuing AGI.

They never seriously persued AGI. It's all a hype, a scam. When will people finally understand this?

My take is they persued what was possible and hoped that would lead to AGI. They and probably everyone in the space then used hype to get continued investment and maybe to some extent believed it themselves. It isn't all a scam however, ChatGPT is useful.

It was always marketing and never serious