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  • Maybe this is a dumb take but I don't think they'll ever go public. Their company is so volatile and unsustainable in the long-term that I don't think it makes sense to go public at all.
  • Is he planning on going public under human or AI governance ? The two timescales are converging. All we need is Super Duper AI and our financial issues will be over.
  • The time to go public was about 16 months ago. People are waking up to large bills now, Chinese models are nipping at their heels, public sentiment has turned, money is becoming more expensive.

    The market no longer cares about fundamentals, corporate structure, controls etc.

    Too slow by my judgment.

    by cco
  • I'm sure it's not because of the horrific state of their financials, no sirree!
  • Do people seriously trust what this guy says anymore?
  • However bad anthropic’s financials look I’m sure OpenAI’s look even worse
    by m101
  • I like Gaben's take on going public. This is a clip from a longer talk he gave which I think is really insightful into many aspects of the economics of software and company culture.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvS-IwYFCP4

  • Prices are moving inference to highly profitable, oAI seems to have solved their training problems, and they're currently competing nicely with Anthropic on the coding side. I'd wait, too -- why fight this stuff out in public when you can stay private and have your big competitor deal with all the public company concerns? There's plenty of capital available in the private markets for them right now.

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