Inside the players and politics of the modern AI industry – The Verge

Weve got a special episode of Decoder today I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and our new senior AI reporter Kylie Robison are filling in for me, with a very different kind of episode about AI.

But we dont spend a ton of time on the day-to-day happenings of the AI industry itself. And thats for good reason: its been moving so rapidly and changing so often that its nearly impossible for the average person to keep up. Making sense of all the different players, whos building what, and what people in the industry honestly think about where its all going its a lot.

So, we thought it would be a good idea to take a beat and have Alex and Kylie break down the modern AI boom as it exists today: the companies you need to know, the most important news of the last few months, and what its actually like to be fully immersed in this industry every single day.

Youll hear Alex and Kylie talk about OpenAI, the gravitational pull its had on the entire tech sector, and how Google is trying to challenge that to mixed results. But they also got into the relationship between the overzealous hype driving AI funding and product development and the very real paranoia in the Bay Area around what youll hear Kylie refer to as p(doom), shorthand for the probability percentage that AI might actually kill us all.

They also break down all the most important AI companies, how likely it is some smaller AI startup unseats ChatGPT, the open vs. closed source debate, and as Alex puts it the Wall Street-ification of AI.

Oh, and look out for a mention of an effective accelerationist rave where Grimes DJd for the CTO of OpenAI. Those are all real words, all in the same sentence together.

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Inside the players and politics of the modern AI industry - The Verge