OpenAI Grove

(openai.com)

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Zagreus2142 11 hours ago
Can someone give the counter argument to my initial cynical read of this? That read being: OpenAI has more money than it can invest productively within it's own company and is trying to cast a net to find new product ideas via an incubator? I can't imagine Softbank or Microsoft is happy about their money being funneled into something like this and it implies they have run out of ideas internally. But I think I'm probably being too reflexively cynical
atleastoptimal 5 hours ago
Almost every parent comment on this is negative. Why is there such an anti-OpenAI bias on a forum run by YCombinator, basically the pseudo-parent of OpenAI?

It seems that there is a constant motive to view any decision made by any big AI company on this forum at best with extreme cynicism and at worse virulent hatred. It seems unwise for a forum focused on technology and building the future to be so opposed to the companies doing the most to advance the most rapidly evolving technological domain at the moment.

albert_e 1 hour ago
> pre-idea individuals

First time I am hearing this term. It is a euphemism like pre-owned cars (instead of used cars).

What does this mean? People who do not yet have any idea? Weird.

minimaxir 12 hours ago
Sam clearly misses Y Combinator.
999900000999 1 hour ago
What exactly do I need to do to qualify.

I'm working on a prototype right now, guess I'll toss my hat in the ring.

Fortune favors the bold.

andsoitis 6 hours ago
OpenAI appears to lack clear product vision.

This feels like a program to see what sticks.

fi-le 10 hours ago
Did anyone get confirmation that the form got sent? There is no feedback from pressing "submit" for me.
jgalt212 7 hours ago
"pre-idea individuals"

Next up, we're funding prenatal individuals.

Hadriel 5 hours ago
15 ppl in first cohort? Aka dont bother applying.
keeda 37 minutes ago
> pre-idea individuals

Holy crap, I thought that term existed purely in the realm of satire skits:

https://www.tiktok.com/@techroastshow/video/7341240131015445...

Imnimo 5 hours ago
If you are pre-idea today, does OpenAI believe your startup will still be relevant in the face of the AGI progress they forecast to make in the time it takes you to ship?
vasilzhigilei 10 hours ago
It looks like application submission isn't functioning.
dvfjsdhgfv 9 hours ago
I first misread it as "OpenAI Grave" where someone would put the list of all discontinued models.
nickphx 10 hours ago
Why not ask the big bag of words to generate "ideas"?
TZubiri 6 hours ago
"it offers pre-idea individuals" wtf

If ideas are a dime a dozen, what even is a pre-idea startup

Cheer2171 11 hours ago
> "pre-idea individuals"
yde_java 10 hours ago
The FAQ items don't expand for me, on Android Vivaldi.
koakuma-chan 11 hours ago
Do you have to be in the US or can they help to get in?
hollerith 3 hours ago
What would be nice is a "grove" I can flee to where I'd be immune to the effects of OpenAI and the other AI labs.

Alas, such grove is impossible.

AnEro 11 hours ago
Looks like they want to build up and support middle men to do the apps more than them, and act more like a platform or operating system position. Which makes sense giant corporations reporting 95% failed AI projects and the core success cases are specialist companies tuning the platform to a specific problem are successful. Then there are a ton of snake oil AI apps that are over promising under delivering hurting the image of AI's usefulness

This is probably purely a pivot in market strategy to profitability to increase token usage, increase consumer/public's trust more than farming ideas for internal projects.

linhns 11 hours ago
Is it just me seeing this as a talent discovery program?
lif 12 hours ago
hmm.. wonder what the most accurate Venn diagram for this is?
woah 11 hours ago
Incredible opportunity for SF Muni to get subsidized with even more full bus wrap ads for AI coding apps that nobody uses