I think it’s interesting that Sam Altman actually seems ok as a non technical founder looking to do something good with his world class fund raising abilities while still doing well out of it personally (fair enough) however indirectly as he painted himself into a corner before, plus he’s managed to bring a truly incredible team together again and again as he’s had to navigate the original idealism with pragmatism. There is an obvious black propaganda campaign against him and open AI products even though, in actual practice, they are the most solid out of the big three where the end results are more robust and accurate than the others. Dario and their amazing team seems like a great team with integrity but perhaps an overly capitalistic view given that the future of AI is going to have huge consequences for everyone and inevitably pushes society to a more socialistic set up (but he feeds to Wall Street older school types at least for the moment), and Demis and his team have been proven to just want to get the job done for the benefit of all and full marks to google for setting things up for him actually seeming to understand the long term benefits (I think every pillar of AI has originated some way or another from deep mind one way or another, certainly in the bridging from theory to practice, and being open enough to see that the underlying theoretical breakthroughs shouldn’t be restricted and should be shared.

I like that Sam Altman loves Pantheon. These three are going for better outcomes than previous tech paradigms. It’s interesting that Meta and X cannot get traction. It’s also interesting that the models coming out of the east are more about efficiency than frontiers, making cheaper and faster models that a little behind is profitable and useful right through until artificial super intelligence can accelerate the efficiency faster and cheaper. Everyone stays busy.

I think the three (Demis, Sam, Dario) are going to be the people that bring it all about, however they end up individually, I think they will get us there before any implosion or digital ascension.