the more they chased DeepMind in those fields, the more Altman and his leadership team realized that these approaches to AI didn’t promise much real-world impact. That’s when OpenAI started to evolve into a very different kind of organization to DeepMind. While DeepMind had a hierarchical, academic culture that prized its PhD staff, OpenAI’s culture was more engineering-led. Many of its top researchers were programmers, hackers, and former start-up founders at Y Combinator. They tended to be more interested in building things and making money than in making a discovery and achieving prestige
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