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The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
This week, the "Uncanny Valley" hosts discuss the lawsuits, bidding wars, and power plays over OpenAI.
There's a bunch of hierarchy, but I feel like it's not until OpenAI launches on the scene with ChatGPT that this becomes an incredibly important question and people's egos get much more involved because suddenly AI is the story in Silicon Valley. I mean, when Sam was talking about this internally in messages that I saw, he was putting the word bid in scare quotes, which I thought was pretty funny and saying, "Yeah, basically Elon says a whole lot of things." And I think his big adversary at the time was Kevin Lynch, who was the executive at Adobe that ran the Flash software department, and they got into this public spat, and they were speaking on stage and they were both blogging and they were both being interviewed in the press talking about how the other company was wrong.
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