OpenAI has hired about a thousand remote contractors over the past six months and that at least 40% of those contractors are software engineers who are creating data for open AI's models to learn software engineering tasks. Molly: Microsoft owns GitHub which has co-pilot. That's also getting sued by some open source folks for stealing their code because it's debatable how much code is protectable. But this could be very powerful.
Jason and Molly kick off the week with a generative ai update! (5:00) Then, they cover Mr. Beast’s latest video and “stunt culture” (35:21), some more third-rail topics (49:40), and Billy McFarland being back in the news! (59:50)
(0:00) M+J kick off the show
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(5:00) Anthropic raises at a $5B valuation
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(11:01) More on Anthropic
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(19:21) Semafor reports OpenAI has contracted 1000 developers
(27:06) Baidu is developing their own AI Chatbot
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(35:21) MrBeast’s latest video + Stunt culture
(49:40) Third-rail topics
(59:50) Billy McFarland is back in the news
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