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OPENAI directional thesis

Trying to win at everything at once, hardware, robots, enterprise, consumer, is the hard way, but the personal history these models build with you makes them too sticky to leave, and ads are coming.

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“when we first invested in OpenAI... we invested originally at the $125 billion round. So I don't think people were entirely sold on LLMs as a business model. But if you want to invest in LLMs as a business model, OpenAI was kind of the, you know, it was the one.”
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