company. They have a very specific mandate that has nothing to do with that. So I think that it means there are competitive pressures. So the competitive pressures seem to be the bigger problem. And the talent drain that happened at OpenAI is like a perfect example of that. Well, there's a larger question of just how inescapable the absolute vortex of the AI arms race is from a commercial perspective. I think that's a really reasonable question. By the way, this is Hinton's main point when he left Google is that it's an all-consuming thing that he can't imagine how we're going to get out of. I mean, it's a black hole of pressure. The question is whether Sam and the leadership of OpenAI would have more power to resist that pressure, at least in some way, from where they were versus where they are. My general feeling is that as the pole position industry and generation defining startup, which they were, I mean, it is a remarkable achievement that won. Not only did they kick this whole (27/57)
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