I am deeply curious who is funding this, considering that there will explicitly be no intermediate product. Only true believers with mindboggling sums of money to throw around would invest in a company with no revenue source. Could it be Thiel? Who else is doing this in the AI space? I hope to see journalists exploring the matter.
Thiel has historically expressed disbelief about AI doom, and has been more focused on trying to prevent civilizational decline. From my perspective, it is more likely that he’d fund an organization founded by people with accelerationist credentials, than by someone who was a part of a failed coup attempt that would look to him like it involved a sincere belief in an extreme difficulty of the alignment problem.
I am deeply curious who is funding this, considering that there will explicitly be no intermediate product. Only true believers with mindboggling sums of money to throw around would invest in a company with no revenue source. Could it be Thiel? Who else is doing this in the AI space? I hope to see journalists exploring the matter.
Thiel has historically expressed disbelief about AI doom, and has been more focused on trying to prevent civilizational decline. From my perspective, it is more likely that he’d fund an organization founded by people with accelerationist credentials, than by someone who was a part of a failed coup attempt that would look to him like it involved a sincere belief in an extreme difficulty of the alignment problem.
I’d look for funds or VCs that are involved with Israel’s tech sector at a strategic level. And who knows, maybe Aschenbrenner’s new org is involved.
I see Elon throwing money into this. He originally recruited Sutskever and he’s probably(?) smart enough to diversify his AGI bets.
Elon diversifies in the sense of “personally micromanaging more companies”, not in the sense of “backing companies he can’t micromanage”.