| ▲ | behnamoh a day ago |
| Are we supposed to post every blog/news post of OpenAI and keep fueling the AI hype? I think at this point people should know that OpenAI is just like any other company. |
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| ▲ | tibbar 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Statsig is big enough that its acquisition is interesting in its own right. Or maybe I'm biased because I spent quite some time setting up a Statsig integration at $FORMER_EMPLOYER. But if I've done that, odds are that a lot of the other people here have too... |
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| ▲ | MontgomeryPy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This seems like a big shift for OpenAI into an enterprise applications vendor to me. |
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| ▲ | rchaud a day ago | parent | next [-] | | What else could they have been? Microsoft didn't give them $10bn to build out their B2C homework autocomplete service. | | |
| ▲ | LudwigNagasena 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | A skunkworks shop that aims at 100x returns by producing cutting-edge AI tech, not another B2B BigTech company. Isn't that the very image they cultivated in the media? | | |
| ▲ | jitl 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | How do you monetize cutting edge ai tech? Sell it. Who has money? Businesses. | | |
| ▲ | overfeed 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | IIRC, the pitch was AGI would allow OpenAI to print money by replacing humans in any industry and siphoning whatever was being spent on payroll for pennies on the dollar. In reality, it's going to be enterprise and ads. | |
| ▲ | LudwigNagasena 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you can produce cutting edge AI tech, the opportunity cost is just too high to spend $1B on already established companies. Such acquisitions basically say that OpenAI can’t find a project worthy of $1B of compute and exceptional AI researchers either because there is nothing innovative they believe they can come up with or because anything innovative will be commoditized and produce little returns. | |
| ▲ | nateburke 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is it. Does OpenAI have consumer DNA or enterprise DNA? It is very difficult to have both. | | |
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| ▲ | babelfish a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | It was almost certainly purchased just for internal usage. See: Rockset |
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| ▲ | drewda 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Agreed. There are dozens of startups and established companies providing analytics-y software. The fact that this one is being acquired by OpenAI doesn't make it any more newsworthy to anyone other than the people who are getting some OpenAI equity... |
