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🗓️ 10 January 2026
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THE DILEMMA OF BIGNESS Colleague Gary Rivlin. How corporate giants like Google were slowed by their own business models, leading Suleyman to leave for Inflection and eventually Microsoft to bypass startup funding issues. NUMBER 15
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Batchel, continuing with Gary Rivlin, the author of the new book, |
| 0:08.2 | highly recommended for you who are mysteriously persuaded that AI has a place in your life, but you're |
| 0:15.5 | reluctant because you don't understand it. Gary's book will explain everything. It's about |
| 0:20.6 | personalities. It's about personalities. |
| 0:21.9 | It's about very well-to-do and very successful men, |
| 0:25.5 | most of whom live on the West Coast of the United States, |
| 0:28.7 | and their talent to keep pushing, |
| 0:32.4 | even though they can never want again. |
| 0:36.9 | They keep pushing. |
| 0:38.4 | AI Valley. |
| 0:39.7 | We go now to Open AI AI and Sam Altman and what happens in 2018, 2019, and 2023. |
| 0:51.5 | It's something called GPT1, GPT2, and GPT3. What are they doing, Gary, that makes it more and more |
| 1:00.5 | powerful and more and more successful? Well, I mean, GPT2 could, was trained on 10 times the |
| 1:10.3 | information as GPT1 was the same with GPT 3 through |
| 1:14.3 | GPT 2 and you know what it got better at is writing things that were more they could write |
| 1:22.9 | in full paragraphs by GPT 2 by GPT, it could kind of get nuances in language. |
| 1:30.8 | GPT4 would come out in in 2023 and early 2023. |
| 1:35.0 | Their opening eyes now about GPT 4.5. |
| 1:38.7 | And, you know, they get more powerful each year, in part because the computing power is getting exponentially better. |
| 1:47.0 | With each passing year, there's more data, and they're being trained on more data. |
| 1:51.0 | They're able to consume more data. |
| 1:53.7 | Pi, which we mentioned before, it's like trained on a trillion and a half word, one and a half |
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