charlierguo

I work on DevEx for OpenAI's API - I'd love to hear more about what we could be improving here!

> I'm sure the engineers at Google worked 4 days a week, 2 hours a day

Why are you sure of that? Anecdotally everyone I know in and around Google Deepmind works incredibly hard.

> Crazy amount of funding, little to no revenue, no competitive moat, no demand.

Doesn't this also describe Thinking Machines Lab?

It's fascinating/spooky how different LLMs are slowly developing their own "personalities," so to speak. And they seem to be emerging as we're giving them access to more tools and modalities which are harder to do broad RLHF on.

With computer use, we first learned that Claude sometimes takes breaks to browse pictures of Yosemite, and now this:

> Claude really likes Firefox. It will use other browsers if it absolutely has to, but will behave so much better if you just install Firefox and let it go to its happy place.

Have we figured out a way to monetize AI-powered search yet? Presumably a product like this (or Perplexity) will ultimately be free, in which case they'll be forced to offer ads (bringing us back to Google's status quo) or perhaps worse, we'll have "product placement" in our AI-written results.

I guess it really did come down to the GPUs in the end. Funding and talent matter a lot less when it takes you 12 months to get H100s.