Speculations on what may happen? Feels like something big that will be announced.

Will it even? Or will this AI actually become the invention of the millennium? Thoughts?

Tight slap to AI nihilists. 👋🏻

What would happen to all the AI startups that are raising massive rounds at insane valuations once OpenAI improves GPT-4 (some spicy rumours are going around) or comes up with GPT-5? Most of these "AI" startups are just a wrapper around these existing, capable LLMs. Better versions of these LLMs would start generalising more and doing those specific functions done by these startups much better.

Seeing this for a few weeks now. Noticed it when PG tweeted about how there are 100 ai startups in the batch and all are legit. That is none of then it’s phony or opportunistic. He also talked about how domain experts are building in AI and great founders. Then saw Garry Tan promoting the batch and retweeting others doing it. A couple of other partners talked about the companies they are excited about too. To me, this signals that yc isn’t getting the kind of interest they used to get and they have to promote the quality of the batch to be able to generate enough interest. For the first time in 10-15 years maybe. If they have to do it to ensure the companies are getting enough funding interest, what about startups without a brand name behind them. We will see more of these as we get close to the demo day. Most startups are just ai wrappers or agents. Not sure about the exact differentiation between them. Not clear from the descriptions or websites.

Name of company Months left according to you Reason For me: Byjus 7-8 months max Selling tabs and doing fraud with poor parents In name of edtech doesn't work

All of our fears about AI was correct! They will take our jobs, they will overtake the world & will finally turn against us. https://www.peoplematters.in/news/talent-management/ibm-asks-employees-to-volunteer-for-layoffs-targets-80-cuts-in-key-departments-including-hr-40430 IBM asks employees to volunteer for layoffs, targets 80% cuts in key departments, including HR

Specifically for people in tech startups/tech ecosystem, what makes you hopeful about the coming year? What are you looking forward to?

Random thought since every app / product has integrated AI, why not Grapevine?

The startup I work at, in all of its existence, it has never given half a shit about AI. Now that the company is looking to raise its series C, over the last 2 months, all of the employees have been asked to build AI products so that the founders can sell this lollipop to investors and get a massive round. Guess what? it's working! We'll soon close the next round by selling random nonsense in the name of revolutionary AI technology.

- Safe Superintelligence (SSI), co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, has secured $1 billion in funding. - The funds will be used to acquire computing power and hire top talent. - SSI is valued at $5 billion and has 10 employees split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. - Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global. - Sutskever aims to develop safe AI systems that surpass human capabilities. Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/)