An AI company owning a major tech podcast?

Wow, what’s next?

Ecommerce giants owning major newspapers? An aerospace company owning a microblogging platform? Startup accelerators owning tech news aggregators?

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Topfi 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If the vast majority of CEOs in this industry are to be believed, any company that achieves "AGI" will be undefeatable, their model improvements and research findings impossible to catch up to. Why risk that being Anthropic, Moonshot or any other competitor to OpenAI by spending your money on this?

The few months/years before "Everyone dies", wouldn't OpenAI want to be the "Anyone" that "build it" and is in control during that time? Unless, of course, OpenAI does not actually believe in that being a possibility, as suspected when they were working on social media...

	▲	mlinsey 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I admit I'm surprised by the move, from a company that reportedly just talked about how they need to focus more on fewer, more strategic products. But I also see the potential value. This is an entertaining and highly influential podcast, a lot of top VC's and founders watch it; it definitely punches well above it's audience KPI's in strategic value. I've seen many interviews or op-eds on the platform pretty clearly shape the startup discourse on X. I also think it should run mostly autonomously, it'll only be as much of a distraction for OpenAI execs as they want it to be. OpenAI just raised $122 billion (including future commitments), so whatever the purchase price was (we have no diea) is not going to even be a rounding error on their financial resources or their ability to pay their datacenter bills.
	▲	df2sdf an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is some insane delusion. Focus on building a great product and you win. All this other stuff is noise.

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operatingthetan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Shouldn't OpenAI be focused on becoming profitable and surviving the next 2 years instead of buying podcast toys?

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bfeynman 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Robinhood did exact same thing, it's more for marketing reach and distribution stuff. Wouldn't be surprised in few years they let it go or spin it down, just paying for a funnel/some narrative control

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kingleopold 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI will eat all Media, all of it.

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yieldcrv 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

states should remove the "purpose" field of incorporation statutes, its too antiquated now and for half a century

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angrydev 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait a second...