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Google "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI"
OpenAI’s Misaligned Superaligners
> they had undeniably good intentions
> but companies, economies, nations, are built on compromise
> leadership is forced to make those decisions sometimes
Counterfactual
> Jan and Superalignment team were listened to
> 4o release was delayed to 2025
> what would have happened?
> Elevenlabs had professional q... See more
The premise of the paper is that while OpenAI and Google continue to race to build the most powerful language models, their efforts are rapidly being eclipsed by the work happening in the open source community.
Simon Willison • Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter . They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.
Simon Willison • Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
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