OpenAI is diversifying a lot, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
It’s great to ship fast. But you need to maintain things as well. And that requires even more time and engineers and money in the end.
There’ll definitely be projects within OpenAI that will be shutdown in a few months, just because it hasn’t caught and/or engineers want to work on something new.
That’s how Google worked in the 2000s - shipping new things fast - but then there was Reader and now they lost everyone’s trust.
> OpenAI is diversifying a lot, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing.
I'm not sure if I'd use term 'diversifying'. At least not in the sense of spreading themselves wider across more projects to reduce overall company risk (if that's what you meant).
I think that we're still very early into AI and because we're still not sure what kind of applications people will want to use in the future, it makes a lot of sense to experiment.
It’s great to ship fast. But you need to maintain things as well. And that requires even more time and engineers and money in the end.
There’ll definitely be projects within OpenAI that will be shutdown in a few months, just because it hasn’t caught and/or engineers want to work on something new.
That’s how Google worked in the 2000s - shipping new things fast - but then there was Reader and now they lost everyone’s trust.