Open AI

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2 min readNov 5, 2023

Open AI

The other day I found myself pondering is Open AI the equivalent of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim?

This train of thought was prompted by my reading a few history books for leisure. I saw clear parallels with what is currently happening around LLMs and OpenAI in particular.

Maxim invented the Maxim gun. A belt fed machine gun that helped colonial powers grab territory in the scramble for Africa. It was reputedly used by one British official to help clear game from land that was soon to be put to farming use in Kenya. Later on it was used by both sides in the Russo-Japanese war and World War 1, due to Maxim’s business associate Sir Basil Zaharoff.

Investors are betting that Open AI will have a similar role in the battle shaping out between tech giants over generative machine learning related processes.

When a company that has issues with making profits can raise money at a valuation of $85bn, it becomes abundantly clear that investors in generative AI have taken leave of their senses

OpenAI — Haymaker — Radio Free Mobile

I can understand the argument that Richard Windsor is making with this argument. While others might point out how dominant funding drove Amazon’s present-day monopoly, there are other precedents like Netscape, General Magic, Uber and WeWork that others…

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