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>"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" he said on a Wednesday podcast.

It's as if you're throwing money worth about half of the cost [0] of the entire Manhattan project at a company [1], and then make a big deal over getting results. Nevermind that the transformer wasn't even OpenAI's invention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-c...




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