Gary Marcus re-ups 9 reasons OpenAI could become the WeWork of AI
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-31
NYU professor Gary Marcus resurfaced his viral tweet arguing OpenAI could someday be seen as the WeWork of AI, citing nine reasons: competitors catching up, forced price cuts, key employee departures, Meta's likely GPT-4-par free model, Sora unshipped after 5 months, GPT-5 delayed to at least 2025, high expected inference costs, unsolved reliability and factuality issues, and no profits ever—and possibly none ahead.
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