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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time' (www.businessinsider.com)
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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'::"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman took yet another dig at Silicon Valley, saying the technology mecca no longer has an innovation culture.

There have not been for a long time," Altman said on a Wednesday podcast interview with Nicolai Tangen, the CEO of Norwegian sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment.

"I'm surprised you say that there was no innovation culture in Silicon Valley, because that's a bit contrary to what I thought," Tangen shot back.

To this, Altman responded by saying Silicon Valley did have a product innovation culture, but he felt it missed the mark on groundbreaking research.

Altman seemed to attribute Silicon Valley's shift away from innovation to the ease and allure of creating "super-valuable companies" in minimal time using existing technology like the internet and mobile phones — which, he said, "sucked up a lot of talent."

Sam Altman and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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