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Welcome to the deep dive
We're diving into a stack of sources
Today focused on a figure
Who's well truly shaped the modern tech landscape
Sam allman
Yeah
We get a uh a really interesting collection
Here articles research notes including some key bits from a book calall the optimist
Yeah helps some pack his story and the core of our deep dive
Today is exploring sammotman's path
Really looking at it through this lens of um optimism and innovation
Exactly these sources they give it a unique angle on how his background and that very specific silicon valley environment plus of course the explosion in tch especially ai um how all that molded his journey and the companies
He built
Yeah
It's not just about hitting the milestones on the time line
We want to pull up those know surprising facts as crucial insights
What want you understand
What want really driving him
What was going on underneath
Our mission is to see what these sources really tell us about the man and the moments
That mattered getting past the headlines
What was actual experiences
Forces okay
Leunpacked this starting right at the beginning those foundational years
The roots of his drive
Well the source is really hamred this idea of optimism during his formative years
Specifically what one source calls optimism m with alysis roughly from eighty five to two thousand five optimism with talalsis what does that mean
Exactly it wasn't like naive idealism
It it this believe and progress that had been you know forded after some tough times
The cold bar hang over the economic messes in the seventies
People coming through that often had this greedy resilient feeling that things could get better
But you really had ded to work for and that work
I think that belief it seems deeply tired to his parents
Jerry
An cononny allman
Oh
Their influence according to these sources is just undeniable
Cherry allman
His dad
He dedicated his life to affordable housing right the tax credit idea
Exactly he behind ered that low income housing tax credit idea which is i mean still fundamental
Today he had this neck for convincing you know hard knows businesses that investing in poor neighbor was wasn't just cherry was smart business
His optimism wasn't abstract it was rooted in like practical problems solving
Community organizing in ay chicago and his own family history is pretty interesting too after so grandfather fled russia built aa shoe empire dad was a shoe designer
But jerry he deliberately chose public policy
Housing policy over the family business studied wwarten
Then went that out
So you've got that practical optimism
Social impact from his dad and then his mom conony y wman the sources describer as having this incredible intellect and drive absolutely brilliant dermentologist yeah
And the sources point out her work treating aids patients
During those incredibly difficult early years of cricrisis
Wyeah that takes not just skbut um immense resilience dealing with all that fear and uncertainty
So jerry is community focus and creative finance
Kony 's sharp mine and determination
What kind of home environment did that create
Well the sources suggest it was an environment of let's say high expectations and a lot of intellectual energy and the move back to say lewis was key
Why say it lose
Because it was there in that setting that sam really discovered computers toddons of programming basically at a superyoung age
His sent leouis of bringing sounds like it had this duality like the picture perfect suburb cllaaton force park in ililbelief in public good and orderly systems
But also tension at home between parental ambitions and maybe amalities
Yeah
That tension seems to be a recurring scene in the background
But despite that sams early brilliance was just obvious like the vcr story
Yeah figuring out
Vcr
It too knowing area ecoes it three teaching himself programming fixing the teachers
Computers
He clearly had this unique aptitude for systems problem solving and comfortable with adults apparently very and that little anedote about him declaring himself the sammari leader and family card games
It's small
But it kind of hends it that early leadership
His schooling wasn't totally straight forward either right
No
He initially resisted private school had some trouble fitting in a public junior high
Apparently
And he switched to burrows and thrive
There yeah acadetically and elelectly no source ces say burws had this progressive ethos that maybe encouraged him to pursue things like programming outside the normal curriculum
The sources also mentioned a pretty significant peronneal journey during his teens
Yes
Figuring out he was gay at twelve in the midwest
In the early two thousands that couldn't be easeasy
The sources ces mentionao l chat rooms were really crucial for finding community
Then which led to this really bold moment in high school standing up at the assembly
Yes
Standing up
During a school assembly to talk about a situation with a gay raight alliance
I mean that take serious courage shows that willingness to speak out early on
So if we pull all that together from the early years
What's the key take away
It looks like this real convergence
Yeah
No intense intellectual curiosity
A natural leadership instinct that early comfort with tech
A sense of social consciousness from his dad's work plus strong family support
Even with those background tension
It wasn't just building a smart kid
No
It was shaping someone wired
Which get complex systems solve problems and just push boundaries
Which really sets the stage for well everything that came next
Which takes us to stanford
And the very beginning of his start up journey
That rainy april weekend in two thousand five sounds pivotal
Oh
Absolutely
Pivotal is soft more meets nick coward in cs one or six
You know a key intro cs class was a catalyst and the spark for the first start up idea
What was it
It was realizing that mobile location data was about to become huge
There was this congress mandate all phones had to be location enable by two thousand and five right
And the timing was almost like surreal
His dad was apparently helping close a sprint deal that same year one of the carriers affected by the mandate
So that realization led directly to vienda
Right Him
Nick and two other friends
Peter dimmin an luctish sponday
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They brainstorm this idea for a social network based on seeing where your friends were in real time and the brainstorming location
Yeah
Classic start up up loor you have chanangs
According to the sources can't make this stuff up
And then the standford business plan competition that played a big role
Huge role they entered maybe not expecting much given it was still kind of quet in the valley
After the dog combst yeah
But patric chung from any a big big v firfirm saw their pitch
And yes the itch yep sources quote him asking basically do you want to do this for real offered an intro to sprints cto massive opportunity
But there was a catch
They had to drop out
Had to drop out of stanford
That was a condition and the timing
This was all happening the same weekend
He applied to why combinator that's the crazy part
The source is called it a sequential thirty six hours
He flies out to cambridge for the whicc interview with paul gram and grim's reaction
Graham seize this young kid reportedly said something like you're only a freshman and saamfires back back ma sofmore
And
And i'm coming ha bold
Totally gram was superimpressed
Even compared to do a young bill gates apparently that interview led to vienando becoming y sey's first funded company
Just a pivotal
Pivotal weekend put them on two tracks right into the heart of the starup world
Speaking of pogramm
Yeah
The ourources give some great color on the yc origin story
Itself they really do groun's background is fascinating train painter gets a cs phd from harvard seize coating
Itself as like a creative art
So how did that lead to yc
The turning point was a specie
Gave it harvard in two thousand and five
And get this sam allman and the guys who started redit
It were actually in the audience so way
Yeah
That speech made gram realized there were all these brilliant young hackers out there
Who just needed you know a little push some see money
Money suppsupporof place and that led to the summer ounoundprogragram
Exactly him in jessa lilistinput of hundred dollar
Cay of their own money
Literally cook chilly dinners for the founders in their house
The source is really stressed how informal and counterintuide
If it was dtting on founders not ideas right betting on the people keep it small
Keep it nuple
That was a philosophy and that first batch right pretty legendary know
Oh Yeah
Read it just in that tv
Which became twitch and sam almen with viandeu 是不是
It was a media proof
That grand's idea worked pick smart people you believe in
And for sam being there from day one having that direct line to gram
It wasn't just money
It was mentorship access y being part of the blueprint
For what became the modern started accelerator
So after why seas stopping out of stanford then came the looped roller coater right lalaunched as radio then became looped
Then they were navigating this kind of awkward time in silicon valley postbus
But premobile explosion
What was sam like back that according to these sources page mylired mediam found him extraordinarily brighten very unassuming at age twenty dealing with complex vc term sheets um
And they were careful with a language right stopping out
Not dropping out
Keep that door open and squeaez reaction to them being undergrads
That's this something about the valley shifting totally gregreat make could do is the coy apparently got more interested
When he found out
They were undergrads a real shift youth then raw potential were suddenly seen as a plus not a minus
The sources even draw a parallel with youtube
Yeah
Both loooped and youtube were incubating its zcoya around the same time
The loop guys fresh aa college felt kind of humbled by the youtube founders
Paypal
Veterans
Who who ld ld gggle le perfefast has to been intimidating yeah a stark reminder of the speed in scale possible even back
Then sams networking skills seem pretty sharoyeah described as the human api
The root node basically he was the central connector between the yc world and the established vcs and power players even really young
The early looped office culture sounds a bit wild
Described his fratat like yeah
Poll noodles
Zwnstairs all night coding yeah
But they am also quickly brought in adult zincseine like brymar
Cinnyack and mark jacoobpscenbut he kept controrol
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Jacobs sees comet yebeing really larled to his sac back
Then really tells you about sams early in lutzonstships that boost mobile deal
That sounds like a key moment
That anecdote really captures his early great
He shows up unannounced to boost office down in irvine after pulling in all nighter building a future
They needed just showed up sources described this skinny hundred and ten pound kid just commanding the room sitting indithe and style bulling it off
Shows that sheer force of will boost was so impressed
They actually renamed the company from radiate to looked as part of the deal
And just like sam predicted landing boost led to deals with sprint
Singular ate nt verorizon
But even with those carrier deals
The product itself had a big snack
Yeah
The core idea always on location sherring sources cite this brutal stat seventy percent user turn
People thought seeing friends on a map is cool
But they hated broadcasting their own location
Constantly privacy concerns
Classic tech versus user needs issue totally a cool tech idea running headlong into a real world
Human behavior and privacy instincts and soun's responses
According to the sources with this mix of optimism and pragmatism
He didn't just give up
He leaned in the privacy stuff testified before congress work with regulators added safeguards like this will work
But we need to fix how it work
Exactly that blend
There's that anecdote about margic obobstinssffing when one thousand nine year old sam was talking about like curing balldness and fusion energy right and the sources deliberately contrast that huteful ambition with sound of kind of crazy
Then with sam actually backing fusion startups years later shows the long term vision yeah and grogrowabability to vvce people that these huge complex problems were solvable yeah
But that intensity also caused ambition and internally
The sources say the senior team it looked
Actually tried to get sammer placed to ceo
Two intense demanding crazy hours
But the board bactim they did sam later admitted
He was inffamously difficult at nineteen learn that maybe not everyone wants a hundred hour our work weeks
And then the steve jobs interaction
Oh Yeah
Jobs calling looped week
But the sources say samon is go found into james power used it as fuel
But a screen shot to email up in the office
Turning criticism into motivation right resilience and despite that they did manage to dance with apple got rejected that had secret meetings with the iphone team
Jobs just same cool
After their demo was apparently huge validation
Can't forget the double polo shirt at wwdc uh memorable maybe be on the best way at definitely stood out
But even after finally cracking the iphone getting featured seen downloads spke terterbtitiming struck just brutal loop
Finally gebig big vibility on the iphone
Dodowloadad briefly sore yeah and a bamb lemon brothers collapses september two thousand eight global financial crisis the rip good times moment
Exactly that famous scoya presentation and turning down one hundred and fifty million dolllar facebook ofers just months before suddenly looked very different
The source is really stress saams resilience after naviating that crissafter turning down a massive exit
That showed what he was made of more
It's
It's a coy was right yet truth the kind of moounder
He was becoming weaering storms making tough calls looped entered up being a master class and start a brazence for him
And the competition wasn't sleeping poor square emerge yeah
Four square totally nailed a vivat as excess w in two thousand nine
They're gimification the chekens it just click better with users
Then especially given loops model in the technical limits on the early iphone
Sam 's reaction classic sam immediately wanted to pip it hard build a fourth quare clone loopstar his teamsaw w his shiny object syndrome just chasing the next thing led to more tension
Yeah
Source has mentioned another comegesuses meeting with sequchoia team reportedly tried to get in fire again
But there's that crucial detail the secret weapon aspect right
While all this loop dramas happening
But m's quietly becoming sequcoies go to guy in their sscalnetworusing sing his scy network
And that leads the 别过来
A tiny fifteen thousand dollars check into two irish brothers working on online payments
Stripe
Stripe now worth over a billion for sam persononaamazing forsight so loop eventually got acquired yeah
But green dot moly n't a gguquy hire source to say sam really focused on keeping the team together in the transition and the big lesson
Sam took from looopeven though wasn't n't huge eax that he wanted you can't enforce people to do things that i want to do
Like constantly share their location that messy tough period
It wasn't a failure in terms of learning
It built resilience semenmented his yc ties led destribe taught hard leadership lessons set the stage for everything else after a loops sold the sources
Paina picture of sam taking some time out reflect yeah a period exploration backpacking in asia ashrams psychidelics and mexico apparently soursusuggest these experiences given this real sense appclearity like anything is possible
And around this time he connects with peter teal feels famous
Stanford starup class comes up
Yeah is uh frustration with slow tech progress
You know where the flying cars
The moon colonies defelt
We were promise right
It ells this is about creating new markets not just competing exactly
And they apparently bonded over nuclear energy as an example of stifled progress precisesely a potentially revolutionary attack held back by fear and regulation
This shared interest led them to start an investment fund hydrozen capitital fed ed after rocket fuel fitting
But maybe it tels biggest influence cald to the source was introducing sam to ai futurism thingers like allies or yut cosky the whole singularity concept superintelligent right sam initially saw it cy yi yi
But the more he learned the more convinced became that this might be the most important
And maybe most dangerous problem humanity faced
And google gave that concern of very real jote definitely google buying deep mind in twenty fourteen
Right after deep mind showed those atari game breakthghs
It made it clear
Agi wasn't just theory big players were actively chasing it
It was becoming real fast several al blog posed that year basically admitting what few in the valley
Would say publicly that if this works it changes everything
Those years with teal seem like a master class for sam in just thinking differently pushing boundaries pursuing ideas that sounded ded crazy
But had world changing potential
Then came the big professional shift in twenty fourteen taking over white comminator from program huge move
And yes
Some skeptiism initially founders were used to pg
But gram gave him this massive endorsement sam altfor for presihihilighting sam sharpness
But also is kindness
And sam had big ambitions for y seat did me
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He didn't just want to run it
He wanted to scale it
Make it an engine for heart tech
Nuclear ai
Biotech
The really tough fundamental innovation stuff
He untill talked about not just apps
He push founders to tackle massive problems
He made some financial mosic
Why see it brought in big institutional money like the stanford and dwnin created a cutton nutty fund
Which kind of fredoubt traditional v cs
Because it invested in later stage yc companies even told founders to think about skipping seed round
Sometimes the sources also mentioned the mesy redit situation of his leadership briefly yeah spinning up from condininas investors that really ccypped the ownership idea seems complex chaotic
But sort of typical sam aiming for a hundred x growth
Even aminst the mess and his time leading
Why see directly feed back into that growing ai obsession
It really seems like a perfect storm
Nick boston's book superintelligence came out
Then laying out the agi risks and opportunities that at home for sam building on the tell talks and the deep mind wake up call running
Why see pushing artech reimagining the accelerator
It gave him the platform a network for the biggest moon shot et open en ai
Which brings us right to the founding january twenty fifteen that ai safety conference in porter rego sources paint a picture
Weird security vipe elon on sk there superintense about ai safety asking researchers
How do we stop ai from killing us all
And it felt urgent
Because real breaks is were happening self driving computer vision exactly made the risks feel concrete not sifi i bostrrooms book turned it into a movement groups like the future of life institute were organizing things
There's even this detail about jane talment meeting you coaskei at a pnarabd d near sfo
And getting totally vvinced ai was an existential threat meeting urgent action
So the convinence brought together
The philosophers and the engineers yeah trying to bridge that gap acknowledging the tension
The lot at as domors warn always the builders
It led to that open letter calling for beneficial ai
Signed by musk hawking thousands of others
And must get a specific worry driving him
He was terrified of google in facebook
Just hoarding all the ai talent and research building super intelligence behind closed doors after the conference
He gave ten million dollars
The future of life for safety research tweeted about it trying to raise alarm bills
Now here's a really interesting twist the sources reveal sam allman was having his own ai dumor spiral around the exact same time
Maybe independently he wrote essay calling superintelligence
The greatest threat pushed a regulation
Proposed the kind of manhattan project for ai tech for the world not a corporation
Which led to those weekly dinners with mask yeah hours spent freaking out about ai safety together sources even mention talk about bunkers in big sir new zealand
Probably teals properties given his similar views
But here's the key pivod and sams thinking
According to these sources
Well he's publicly working with muscon and open letter for government overoverght ght 's simultaneously scheming basically yeah formulating this counterplan
If we can't stop it
Maybe we should build it first before google does build it ourselves
But build it right safely for humanity
And that's where greg brock comes es greg brogkman brilliant tech guy x stripe cto
Harvard mit drop out already teaching himself
Ml building a gp u cluster in his apartment
He joins forces with women
They started amaming this ai i abb source
Ces say the real turning point was a secret dinner at the rose with hotel
Altman invites top ai researchers including alilia setsgiver from google
Brain coauthor
The alex net paper setsgiver apparently shows up in camping here love that detail
The big question that night could a new lab actually compete with google
The conclusion incredibly hard
But maybe
Just maybe possible
And brockman and subsgiver were sothey were were in open eye founded soon after nonproproit
It that huge one billion dollar pledge musk was a key initial funder
The pitch aee for humanity not shareholders
And there's that anecdote about sezski almost staying a google
They offered him six million dollars
But he chose open a ye last minute sources suggest it was mainly his belief in great brock mman and young ccoon at facebook
Ai apparently told him
He failt shows how what dtious it felt moving into early open a eye
The culture sounds like intense research mixed with ko definitely five and white boards is a sources put it stskiver obsessed with fresh markers
They started in brock's apartment researchers literally crashing on couaches
Greg g
Praragmatic just do whatever need to doing thinking
I was building aii wwashing cuyeah just being ababling the research
Their initial goal chasing deep mine on ittary sounds ambitious may be off track
They were trying to get ai to learn from pixelalone
But yeah they quickly ararn rooofforce compute and random button matching wasn't enough needed better approaches crucial early lesson
Then came alphago in twenty sixteen deep mind crushes sly satle with those not human moves
Yeah
Huge wake up call for everyone
Including open ai no doubt left advanced ai was happening now musquks reaction was intense total freak out
According the ourources email new team pay
Whatever it takes for top talent terrified deep mind was building one mind rule the world under google
This push of an ai to pivt insaid of one big project
They let research teams branch out robotics games like doted two and crucially ally naturling they moved offices above a chocolate factory and shift ted herring toard ard builders not just phd embracing the underdog identity outside events
Influences
Things to write even politics
Yeah
Trumps win in twenty sixteen hit sam hard sources mentioned him watching those political efforts vote players track trump even toyed with running gogovernor on teteplatforforbut got laughed out of the room by political vents a reality check check yybe then came the open fill funding thirty million dollars
But it head strings attach reflecting effective altroas of ideas
The grand announcement itself argued against open sourcing ai for safety reasons directly contradicting the original open ai
Exactly a huge shift source is called the beginning of the end for musquks open source stream
There the mission suddenly changed not private for profit um
But maybe private for profty setting the stage for the non profit to four profit move
Which is often linked to that dota two moment and twenty seventy right the bott beating aa profyer right the bobment announced they take on the full protein may be jump in the gun a bit with a researchers very silicon valley announcfirst fifired out out later the real story behind dota
Too the sources of reveal was sams manmaneuverrhe personally called sghananadellet microsoft got sixty million dollars in aszure compute credits for visibility
So duduta was parpara showwase ase asasure big time
But crucially for open ai
It proved massive compute worked a key less than they applied to language models and speaking of language models
Alec grapford was making quiet progress
Yes well dota got hehead lines
Redford was working on language early failures on read it that a breakthrough with amazon reviews showing sentiment understanding
Then ellia suitscaver saw googles attention is all you need paper the transformer architecture
The missing piece exactly redford than the team jumped on it huge progress followed quickly
But money was still the issue raising for a non profit
They were getting laughat trying to raise a hundred proilty dollars for a non profit
Eye abb that force the capped profit idea explain that again investors could get a return
But was capped like a hundred teeks
It bridge the gap attracted missionline jumpors like vinnt coastlw
Who were a massive check based pure early on the agi vision reportedly with zero financials then came the dramatic break up with elon mosk source to say it boiled down a control must wanted total control feared an agi dictorship reportedly stormed out of a meeting
Called the research er a jacass losing musk forced them to get serious about major funding directly led to sasteirel chat was sddin a dellaz unvalllion
Twtwelninenineteen the microsoft one billion dollar bt the flashy due a two win basically bought in time for these strategic plays
And for the transformer breakthrough ws to mature internal tentions
Really flared up around gpt two and gpt three releases
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Gpt two trained to partly unread
It was surprisingly capable reading esas doing translation without specific training
Researchers free doubt safety arms went off darooma
Jjack clark were particularly concerned leaving to the decision not to release the full model right opening
Esaid said a presiright holding back the most powerful version due to safety concerns caused a huge media back acklh publicity ties unt man not really open
But sam rally the team around the safety argument internally
And then gpt three way bigger massive a hundred seventy five billion parameters trained on the internet
That scaling laws paper bigger models just get better
Sam sad is maybe the most important discovery ever but internally chaos tensions between research fact ctions
Big time ario m id day reportedly try to block great broadken from working on gpt three worried about the speed
It got public messy ma day air disagreements big rift this friction let the dario ma day leave with others to start anthroppic sources mentioned arreo felt psychologally abuse by smpms intense royle and gpt three incredibly capable code poetry
But researchers weren't sure what to do with it initially until brockin a morali built the api exactly code the to type over christmas literally bag started to try it
The ai dunungcrecreated to debate
Became that first crucial feedackloop
And all this time sam dealing with major personal stuff
Yeah sources
Menchhis sister anny's financial struggles
The family trust issues
Public accusations
Even their recessions arguing with his mom about money
She chose incredible maybe necessary compartmental zation dealing with that while launching world
World gging
Tch and navigating internal chaos
The gpt three api launch in twenty
Twenty was was awwward cording to sources
Trying to balance profit
Potential and safety messages filled off to some esspeciresly the departing and throropic group
Then google stoopcastic parrots paper dropped right around
Then remind us
What was the core argument of stocastic parots
It rainally to origgeed these huge models trained on internet data might just be sophisticated mimics
Stotocastic parrots repeating patterns without real understanding
It raised huge concerns about biases harmful language from the training data getting amplified timc gabor's exit from google
Over it exploded the the ai ethics debate and sam's joke about being a sarcastic paromaybe didn't help probably ly out best best time
Yeah
Didn't move over the al eththical issues and open eyye faced real moderation nightmares with early uses like ai dunine shocked by the interpropriate content
The ai could generate the sa's reaction was strong
Not the future any of us want yeah
But the early fixes falth heavy handed violating user freedom the irony
The ai trained of the raw internet was generating the problematic stuff
Itself lesson learned needed actively civilizze
These models plus the economies were terrifying ai dungeon burburning testssless worth of computer month showed the tech of bankrupt due just on running costs
But there were glimpses of broader potential too beyond text dial
The rdish tion to do that was a turning point showed ai could be visual creative captured imaginations
And sam started articulating his bigger vision more clearly ai making almost everything cheaper except land
He is more s law for everything
I say tied together ubi longevity lanland taxes his whole technoutopian blueprint
Then there's world coin scanning iruses for global idea in currency source to see it as same pushing boundaries again using tech for nationation state scale goals
Maybe without fully grappling with the huge privacy and ethical optics
And it's personalizing to scale up alongside open ai noticeably more extravaghere may withce seven number room of compound branches a states a big shift
Wanting live simply ly ten dollars relationships reportedly reflecting that cosmic ambition pairing with the younger entrepreneus sharing the vision one boyfriend describing it as the universe becoming aware of itself and quope
But the sources is also mention the painful public situation with this sister any any casting a shadow
During this period of intense professional success
Which brourus to the blloom
November
Twenty
Twenty three
Which sudden ouster in return sources set it up by contrast saam's public image board can fire me with this behind the seen's actions
The board wanted more safety focus independent experts like paul ris piano
But sam delayed ed to appoint loyalists
Smelts the picture painted bored dynamic shifted
After people like read hoffman left independent directors saw red flag
Sicky alen fund structure is chip ventures safety concerns
Feeling brush aside crucially they felt they weren't getting straighed answers and the tipping point was key insiders speaking up mmmoradi the cto and illiaa subsgiver chief scientist mudii reportedly described at acic dynamic sam telling people what they wanted to hear undermining them sudsgiver the research heavy weight apparently compiled documentation of what he saw is deception
Leading to that insane weekend the boards execution described is boched sudden move
No clear public explanation
No transition plan meanwhile sam spplaying forty chest rallying employees getting a delas backing inststtly tly employ revolts seven hundred plus employees threatening to quit for microsoft
Game over for the board and the blib ironically seem to make all mman even stronger absolutely showed popower internally and externnally with microsoft
The sources really questioned
If independent board oversight can withstand that silicon valley reality distortion field
When a founder has that much leverage the outcome speaks for itself it forces that huge question can we trust charismatic founders to police themselves with world changing tech open a eyes
Board tried this is what happened
The aftermath was messy to especially for people like sessver ver very messy
This departure was huge brilliant researcher involved in the ouster attempt tried to save the company
Then left citing instability his new venture safe super intelligence ink is seen as a direct rebuke to open a eyes
First focus young like followed another key sad researcher saying safety took a backseat to shiny products confirmed a lot of suspicions can by late twenty
Twenty four open aie looks very different fundamentally transformed according sources looks like a conventional four profit
Sam likely getting significant equity cementing control
Most of the original lestors gone that massive six ints of billion dollar funding rounded one hundred and fifty seven billion dollar coffin now final nail in the non profit coffin now reportedly making investors sign non competes standard bali stuff
But jawning given the original mission ultimately sam opmman's journey optimistic kid figuring up vcr to ai tighten really meres the tech industy's whole art doesn't it a idealistic disruption to corporate consolidation move best and break things to regulation in revolts sources paying him as brilliant contradictory pushing boundaries
While seeking control
His story really is the story of as rise and all the complex human and ethical questions that throws at us
And that brings us back to you
The listener we've traced this in credible path from that suburban kid with the nectfor systems through the resilience needed for started failures like looped the relentless ambition at yc
And finally the complex poweryys building in controlling open eye right up to that revealing blip
Yeah
This deep diet looking through all these sources
That really highliines how personal journeys huge industry shifts and massive tech shighs just really twtwine in these unpredictable often messy able looking that shaped the future were all living in
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So based on everything we've unpacked today sheer spespeed of ai
The human dynamics
Ambition and control
We saw here the constant tension between safety and speed
Here's a final thought for you
How do we as a society actually ensure this incredibly powerful technology and the people building it truly benefit humanity as a whole not just the few holding a keys something to mull over
Thank you for joining us for this deep dive
