Plenty of companies have compute, but everyone is barely catching up to GPT-4 over a year after release. I'm sure places like Meta would love to unlock the details of what makes it so good.

There's no mystery, they just have a lot of actual user data, so they've been able to refine the question answering behavior. They've also baked some common problem solving strategies like chain of thought into the model via training.

yep, and the puzzle isnt 'make chatgtp again' its 'catch up to chatgpt' which is a whole other puzzle

> Even raising funds is not a certainty given that VCs are becoming more cautious

You'd think any investor would be utterly stupid to not make an exception for Ilya, regardless.

That’s not such a given. There are a toooon of deep pockets in this space already and absolutely zero path to profitable products for any of them.