Silicon Valley really is about soft connections. Greg knew the Amodeis since 2016. Seems like they also really lucked out on having Alec Radford inventing GPT when nothing else was working as a commercially viable project
Reminds me of the crypto bubble. All the defi shitcoins giving yields to each other while no shitcoin actually generated real value or had real demand. Now everyone building LLM libraries and systems but very few LLM products yield real value
Looks like DeepMind will no longer be able to pursue academic research with the pressure to monetize. Talent exodus could happen similar to what happened at Google AI where many prominent researchers either went to OpenAI or started their own companies
Yeah I'm having the same problem. I get "An error occurred. Either the engine you requested doesn't exit..." or "An error occurred. If this issue persists..." 90% o f the god damn time wtf