Ben Affleck Explains CNNs and Why He Sold His AI Company to Netflix for $587M
oemsyrup · reddit · 2026-10-15
Ben Affleck gave a surprisingly technical GQ interview discussing tensors, convolutional neural networks, and why video generation scaling is fundamentally different from LLMs—offering the reasoning behind selling his AI company to Netflix for $587M and his take on how AI will restructure Hollywood content production.
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