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Makes sense I guess, integrating robot hardware requires an entirely different set of skills to ML research and has a much slower dev cycle.

I think OpenAI has progressively narrowed down its core competency - for a company like 3M it would be something like "applying coatings to substrates", and for OpenAI it's more like "applying transformers to different domains".

It seems like most of their high-impact stuff is basically a big transformer: GPT-x, copilot, image gpt, DALL-E, CLIP, jukebox, musenet

their RL and gan/diffusion stuff bucks the trend, but I'm sure we'll see transformers show up in those domains as well.

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