The day I left OpenAI, I didn't take a single line of code with one—only one question:
If the giants have already seen the future, what is left for the small company.
Last year I set out to start a company with 10-slide deck and a half-finished prototype.
I got rejected 7 times.
the eighth VC ask me:"If OpenAI do this tomorrow, what will you do?"
I said:"Then I bet on the right direction—I just have to be earlier, narrower, and crazier than OpenAI.”
Two weeks later, I had a term sheet.
My biggest takeaway from OpenAI:
The most expensive thing is never compute;
it's judgement.
The most dangerous thing isn't model going rogue; it's people outsourcing responsibility to model.
Everyone believes AGI is coming, but no one can answer for you:
when the future actually arrives, will you willing to put your name on the line?
The company is still small, but it's alive.
Big tech gives you telescope; startups force you to build whell.
What's truly scarce isn't people can see the future—it's people who dare to take the first step in the fog.
list of 10 best AI researchers on X:
@karpathy
= King of Large Language Models
@steipete
= Founder of OpenClaw
@gregisenberg
= King of Startup Ideas
@ChatGptAstra
=King of AI in the Chinese world
@jackfriks
= King of Solo App Development
@levelsio
= King of Entrepreneurship
@jiroucaigou
=The ultimate fusion of Web3 and AI.
@eptwts
= King of AI Money-Making on Twitter
@godofprompt
= King of Prompt Engineering
@vasuman
= King of AI Agents
That's incredibly f*king treasure!
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