Out of curiosity, is his work on any of the “frontier” models? Or is he developing the small, open-weight models you can run on sufficiently beefy personal systems? There’s a world of difference there in terms of ethics.
I work with a few AI engineers myself, and I don’t think I know anyone who hates companies like OpenAI and Anthropic more than they do.
To be 100% honest, I don’t fully comprehend everything he does. He had a hand in at Oracle but left to work for a series of start ups and does consulting.
Mostly he goes around the world, writing papers and speaking at AI conferences.
He built his first LLM in high school to do debate prep. LOL.
Out of curiosity, is his work on any of the “frontier” models? Or is he developing the small, open-weight models you can run on sufficiently beefy personal systems? There’s a world of difference there in terms of ethics.
I work with a few AI engineers myself, and I don’t think I know anyone who hates companies like OpenAI and Anthropic more than they do.
To be 100% honest, I don’t fully comprehend everything he does. He had a hand in at Oracle but left to work for a series of start ups and does consulting.
Mostly he goes around the world, writing papers and speaking at AI conferences.