alt Hacker NewsMy opinion about this is that Google see it as a way to weaken OpenAI, and few other side benefits, including the option to acquire Anthropic.
And it may very well be bad news for OpenAI.
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> including the option to acquire Anthropic.
I have feeling that Dario is not the type of man who would want to be acquired and then have Google's CEO telling him what to do.
That boat has sailed off. Not even Google has the cash to buy a company valued at almost a trillion dollars.
It'd be funny if Google offered 750m in stock + cash just to see what happened... :D
The drama on HN alone would last for days. Twitter would implode in on itself.
OpenAI was created to counter the threat of Google controlling a possible AGI. What if we still end up in the same state in the end? Both Anthropic and OpenAI have abandoned any pretense of altruism at this point and find themselves overwhelmed bythe forces of capitalism.
They're worth $1 trillion in private market. If they IPO today, I'm willing to bet my house that the hype will drive them to $2 trillion market cap or 50% of Google's marketcap.
OpenAI and Anthropic will be the biggest IPOs ever - bigger than SpaceX. That's my prediction.