My guess is this is as much about talent acquisition as it is about talent retention. Give the bored, overpaid top talent outside problems to mentor for/collaborate on that will still have strong ties to OpenAI, so they don't have the urge to just quit and start such companies on their own.
I don't think there is any money given, except travel costs for first and last week.
I think everyone is starting to see this as a middle man problem to solve, look at ERP systems for instance when they popped up it had some growing pains as an industry. (or even early windows/microsoft 'developers, developers, developers' target audience)
I OpenAI see it will take a lot of third party devs to take what OpenAI has and run with it. So they want to build a good developer and start up network to make sure that there are a good, solid ecosystem of options corporations and people can use AI wise.
The gap was that workers were using their own implementation instead of the company's implementation.
This is probably purely a pivot in market strategy to profitability to increase token usage, increase consumer/public's trust more than farming ideas for internal projects.
The entire internet is now structured to sell to you. premium subscriptions for simple things that aren't technical problems, but are instead artificial complexity to monetize your every move. They profit from the fact that its artificially difficult to host your own data, sync your own devices, or connect to each other without an intermediary.
All of this becomes worse with AI stratifying hardware power again. AI is great, but on american capitalists its pearls before swine.
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moralestapia•37m ago
Exactly what I read between the lines on this.
bananapub•34m ago