Andy Halliday
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is as part of this move to strip down the products and initiatives that aren't directly in line with what they need to show to go IPO later this year.
And that includes sort of deprecating a number of major things, including Sora, right?
Sora, the whole video thing that they had.
They basically seeded the Sora product
sort of workspace to gemini gemini is really kind of the last one standing other than the bespoke kind of video developers out there but gemini among the major frontier models still has an active video generation kind of uh you know uh product line
But anyway, adult mode, sorry, it's going to be shelved.
It's not going to be happening.
It's deprecated.
It was going to be an erotic chatbot feature.
And they are focusing on their core products now.
And this is as reported by the Financial Times today.
We didn't talk about it.
Well, they have a vested interest in that, literally.
They're vested already to get the first, I think it's $100 million or something.
Is it a million, not a billion?
They get the first profits that come out of open AI.
And that in respect of their original investment, which was on the order of a small number now compared to what's being invested overall in model training, including the infrastructure costs that are necessary to do that.