> apple still won't let you use the european app store because the phone knows your location.
The national app store you get to use (the region of your iphone) is based on your billing address + card details (which obviously are validated when you enter them), not your phone location.
To answer your question - however you feel about Israel, if you live in the west, it is absolutely not in your best interest to have Russia or China be buddies with Israel, which either would very gladly be.
It wasn't just that, it was also all the deep learning stuff. Atari games playing themselves, deep style and variants. There was some interesting image generation happening. AlphaGo was 2015, etc. that was really when things started accelerating imo.
It was made to be small out of necessity. The US government put extensive export controls on many inter-GPU connectivity products last year and expanded those controls recently to include anything above an A100.
Page 9 of this recently published paper[1] is a strong indicator of how far non-US firms go to formally analyze and factor in these bandwidth constraints in building large models.
Ah, that makes sense. Is it possible for those researchers to just rent cloud compute, or is that also prohibited? I suppose that the obvious thought in my mind would be to find some cheap cloud GPU provider and use their platform to do the training. But maybe they're more concerned about inference afterwards, and so that doesn't really solve their issue.
Microsoft played the 5D chess so well they made it look seamless, like Kasparov playing 40 opponents simultaneously.
5 occurrences of "Microsoft" in the article body vs 9 "OpenAI".
To make my point clear; this weirdness was definitely caused by the OpenAI board deviating from everybody's plans, including a member of the board themselves.
From there, Microsoft strategically reacted to a black swan event. From MS's pov, this was a zero-day attack that would manifest itself in 2-5 years, Google vs FTC style, and the mitigation strategy was providing the appearance of welcome arms++ to the tyranny of a board that makes kneejerk decisions, and having those open arms be rejected by the (natural) out-pour of sentiment.
The end result is identical, and Microsoft turned a zero-day attack into an irrefutable defense for any future FTC lawsuit.
I don't think Microsoft is audacious or competent enough to orchestrate a fictitious termination, that's a little too far fetched. The initial event _reeks_ of incompetence/AGI fear-mongering, not orchestration.
+24 hours - Nadella announcing the creation of an internal OpenAI and automatic employment offers to all OpenAI employees. Seems sensible. Microsoft's investment in OpenAI entitles them to 75% of all of OpenAI's net profit until they make their whole $13B investment back, not to mention retain ownership of 49% of OpenAI. Too much capital to play chess with, the division/auto-hire announcement still feels like it must have been done with a lot of hesitation and picking the least awful option, but what else? If the conclusion is that OpenAI's board is prepared to sabotage the company -- and the exceptionally vague (=> bullshit) reasoning OpenAI published for his termination supports that conclusion -- there's no other option.
But +48-72 hours, this is perhaps when the "holy shit" moment happened -- Bing's lifelong irrelevance as a consumer product and sudden ascension to relevance as Google's defense in an extremely serious lawsuit, and at least Google organically beat the other search engines.
The Microsoft board realized hemorrhaging OpenAI, whilst also probably owning xx% of all H100's (arguably the defining competitive advantage of GPT-as-a-Service co's), would almost definitely lead to them being in Google's predicament years down the line. By then, the FTC will not care that the "trigger" all those years ago was a board that became frantic about AGI, with Microsoft merely rescuing a ship that self-sabotaged.
So the chess started here, Ctrl+Z'ing everything, the overtly outward displays of compassion, some genuine, some perhaps encouraged, and everyone - including Sam - is back on the same page that Microsoft needs to back off, but crucially it has to appear as a reunification stemming from within OpenAI.
It is precisely at this point, in this chain of events, that the opportunity emerges for a OpenAI board replacement, with Sam being firmly on it, that is in line with Microsofts deep (arguably trauma-laden) desire to finally be the dominant player in something other than desktop operating systems.
No source, I doubt there will ever be, but this speculation of events, to me, lines up most with the actions of the parties involved.
What is interesting/noteworthy (to me) is that this was the first concrete instance I have used ChatGPT to "do something useful". Up until now, all the twitter threads and Linux VM's were cute toys, but this is an actual situation that I need resolved and I preferred it's edited version over my original.
No ignorance on it’s order-of-magnitude lethality multiplier over cars. But there is a certain cognitive-adrenaline fused pleasure that comes with seamlessly gliding your way through the perfect Bézier-esque curve over a gentle highway turn, whilst being held in the ever-present protective arms of gyroscopic precession, that makes the danger of it all worth it to me.
Rollercoasters let you experience a far greater degree of adrenaline and wind rushing through you, but don’t come close to this particular feeling of smiling at death.
The national app store you get to use (the region of your iphone) is based on your billing address + card details (which obviously are validated when you enter them), not your phone location.