Executives
10 articlesSatya Nadella’s Multibillion-Dollar Question: How Much OpenAI Is Too Much?
Microsoft put billions into a research lab with no revenue and a non-profit parent. Nadella’s strategic logic is clear; the accounting is not.
Mark Zuckerberg Gives Llama Away, and Charges Nothing
Meta hands out its Llama model weights for free and calls it generosity. I have seen free coal before, and I have learned to look for the fence.
Tim Cook’s Quiet AI Strategy Finally Gets Loud
Apple sat out the first years of the AI boom on purpose. Its bet is that distribution beats capability, and that arriving late to a category is a method.
Alexandr Wang and Scale AI: The Data Army
Alexandr Wang built one of the largest companies in AI by supplying labelled data at industrial scale, an unglamorous layer that turned out to be defensible.
Aravind Srinivas and Perplexity’s Answer Engine
Aravind Srinivas runs Perplexity, a search engine that answers and cites instead of listing links, and the incumbents whose ads depend on clicks noticed.
Emad Mostaque’s Reinvention After Stability AI
Stability AI released an image model openly, then spent two years explaining its finances. Its founder resigned. The artifact outlived the institution.
Clem Delangue and the Open Community Hugging Face Built
Hugging Face began as a chatbot for teenagers. Clem Delangue turned it into the neutral meeting place for machine learning by giving away what it did best.