AI’s Age of the Dinosaurs

AI’s age of the dinosaurs

Liz’s viewThe AI boom has minted a new crop of fresh-faced celebrities like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. When I got the tip in January 2023 that Microsoft was investing $10 billion in OpenAI, I had to Google it. Now Altman is a household name.But look across the AI landscape, and the faces are notably wizened. Oracle was born in the floppy-disk era; Larry Ellison made his first billion in 1992. Microsoft invented the operating system before memo…

AI's age of the dinosaurs

Liz’s view The AI boom has minted a new crop of fresh-faced celebrities like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. When I got the tip in January 2023 that Microsoft was investing $10 billion in OpenAI, I had to Google it. Now Altman is a household name. But look across the AI landscape, and the faces are…