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| ▲ | ipsum2 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They hired (poached) a bunch of the top talent from OpenAI and other places. It's really not a secret. |
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| ▲ | belabartok39 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ha. Talent. You mean people who cheat on their interviews like this guy. | | |
| ▲ | spindump8930 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | They hired many accomplished researchers, with track records of both papers and work at other frontier companies. They gave those folks huge autonomy, huge budget, and 18 months - some would say at the expense of the rest of the company. Check out blind references to TBD. I'd call the strategy ruthless, but it certainly was effective. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why is the word "poached" though, like it's illegal or those people "rightfully belongs" to OpenAI but now Facebook "stole" them somehow? Feels like something Steve Jobs would coin just to make it sound worse than it is. People switch jobs, this is OK. | | | |
| ▲ | mrheosuper an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | And when the Chinese does the same, we call them "stealing technology". |
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| ▲ | loeg 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems possible there is some chance Alexandr knows what he's doing. |
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| ▲ | overfeed 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps dividends from the forced, company-wide panopticon RLHF. |
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| ▲ | wmf 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| A new team, probably focused on better data. |
