What Pieter Levels thinks about OpenAI

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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1. 20 Aug 2024

   Our readingGoogle had the data, the technology and the engineers to ship ChatGPT in 2019, and bureaucracy alone is why it did not.

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   Their wordsThey could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.

   ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 2nd of 30 in this recording