Berber Jin

And what's happened in the past few months is that it's become very clear that the easiest and fastest way to make money in AI right now

is to sell productivity tools to businesses and to developers.

And Anthropic has really just been ahead of OpenAI.

And so OpenAI is in the middle of this really big strategy shift towards catching up in building these productivity tools.

And what happened was that Sora really just, it no longer made sense within the kind of strategic roadmap of OpenAI, right?

Because

it was incredibly computationally intensive.

And so OpenAI just decided that they couldn't really afford to keep Sora alive because they're in this precarious moment where they have to devote as many computing resources as possible towards winning that coding and enterprise business.

It speaks to a lot of themes that are very central to this moment in technology, which is that these companies are creating something that in many ways resembles how humans

behave at the very least, right?

If you talk to a chatbot, they're very smart.

Sometimes you can even detect a sense of their personality.

With OpenAI, there were all of these debates around how sycophantic the model should be to users.

So it brings up all these really interesting questions about how to design

the behavior of a chatbot.

And given that this is a Silicon Valley creation, people have been dreaming or fantasizing about a world in which machines one day become our peers almost, or like they're no longer the things that we command, but they exist autonomously.

So

There are all these philosophical questions that get raised in how to create a chatbot that interacts with humans, particularly around questions of morality and ethics.

So I don't think you'll find this in job listings for companies, but she had a unique path in that she was very close to Anthropic's co-founders.

She was with them at OpenAI.