Sam Altman Got Silicon Valley's Giants to Tether Their Fates to His Company
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Sam Altman's OpenAI has secured significant deals with major tech companies, raising questions about the implications of these partnerships and the concentration of power in the AI industry.
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which tech giant has tied their fate to OpenAI? as far as I can tell, they have a selection of AI companies to choose from, and some of the tech giants are very strong in AI themselves.
if you believe this thesis, then you are asserting that if OpenAI fails, the tech giants fail as well ("whether their fates"). I don't buy it.
That's an interesting point.
> if you believe this thesis
What do you think of the evidence in the article?
Isn’t using the phrase “too big to fail” just a bit on the nose for the AI bubble we’re currently in?