Episode 061 — OpenAI and Strategy Credits

Ben and James discuss OpenAI’s new mission and what it says about capitalism. Or is it just a strategy credit that we are reading too much into?

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Links

• Ben Thompson: “Yep, broken.” — Twitter
• James Allworth: Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem? — Harvard Busines Review
• Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI
• Steven Levy: How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Backchannel
• Ben Thompson: OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Data and Recruiting — Stratechery Daily Update
• Ben Thompson: TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Strategy Credit — Stratechery

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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