Open any AI product launched in the last eighteen months. There is a text box in the center of the screen. There is a sidebar. There is a history panel. There might be a mode selector. The palette is dark or off-white. The typeface is clean and neutral. This convergence is not a coincidence and it is not laziness. It reflects something real about how AI products are currently … [Read more...] about Why AI Products Keep Looking the Same
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What OpenAI’s Funding Rounds Are Actually Buying
OpenAI's capital raises have stopped being about runway. They are about something else now, and it is worth being clear on what. At the scale of funding OpenAI has absorbed — tens of billions across multiple rounds — the money is no longer primarily financing model training or operational costs, both of which are large but bounded. It is buying three things that have nothing … [Read more...] about What OpenAI’s Funding Rounds Are Actually Buying