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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      1 year ago

      The RCA story is really interesting. Technology Connections has a video on it.

      I’m not sure it’s fair to say that they couldn’t afford it, but they couldn’t afford undirected research.

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        1 year ago

        Even if they hadn’t gambled it all away on Videodisc, RCA would have eventually been gutted by venture capital and then the brand sold to a cheap electronics manufacturer anyway.