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Hayden Field

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
480 total appearances

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

Probably, even though they haven't said this, some safety research, I would guess, or at least doing what they tend to do, which is reassigning people on a certain safety research team into other departments.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

And so they say they're not actually

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

you know, diminishing the research, but who knows whether they are or not.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

You know, so I think we'll see some changes to its research org and maybe people studying long-term risks.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

They've got to keep some of them around because it's good PR, but, you know, I could see them definitely kind of like on the DL reassigning some of those people.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

And then, yeah, I mean,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

It's all about just devoting more compute to the things that are going to make the most money so that they can make investors happy.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

And so, you know, whatever ways they can do that, that's what we're going to see.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

Probably maybe another funding round before they go public.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

OpenAI is also reportedly trying to go public before Anthropic.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

That's something Sam Altman is apparently really serious about.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

But he's apparently, the information reported...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

like kind of sparring with CFO Sarah Fryer about that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

She apparently doesn't think it's ready to go public as quickly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

So yeah, we're going to see maybe some more leadership turnover, who knows, but you know, we'll be, I think that the next couple of months are going to be very interesting for executive turnover, which projects get killed off and also like probably some top engineers going from one lab to another or vice versa.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

And it,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The AI industry's existential race for profits

tracking who's moving and to where and what team they moved from is going to be really telling as well.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent

So it is crazy right now.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent

You're absolutely right.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent

It's the most competitive it's ever been right now, the AI industry.