That cap is very high, something like 1000x investment. They’re not near it, so they could be sued by investors if they admitted to slowing down even a little.
The whole scheme for OpenAI is nuts, but I think they’re getting less nuts as they think more about the issue. Which is weak praise.
They actually explicitly set up their business like this, as a capped-profits company
On-paper for what is now a subsidiary of a much larger company.
In practice Microsoft management can’t say now there is a cap on the most promising future business area because of their subsidiary.
This is how management-board-shareholder dynamics of a big company works.
I didn’t spell it out as this is a well known aspect of OpenAI.
That cap is very high, something like 1000x investment. They’re not near it, so they could be sued by investors if they admitted to slowing down even a little.
The whole scheme for OpenAI is nuts, but I think they’re getting less nuts as they think more about the issue. Which is weak praise.