'Ilya is on the outside now': watching the singularity happen without him
bookwormengr · x · 2026-11-10
bookwormengr reacts to a long thread about Ilya Sutskever's arc: leaving DeepMind for OpenAI in 2015 and igniting the AI arms race, staying through the first Anthropic exodus, then leading a failed coup against Sam Altman over "consistently candid" concerns — which got him ousted.
Instead of joining Anthropic like everyone else, he founded a company that wouldn't pursue product. Now (set in late 2026), frontier models at Anthropic and OpenAI are accelerating internal research beyond what any single brilliant researcher can contribute — leaving Ilya, like the rest of us, watching the singularity from the outside.
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