Databricks Naveen Rao Praises Sam Altman for Making OpenAI a Product Company [Video]

Databricks VP of GenAI recently praised Sam Altman for turning OpenAI into a profitable product company.

“Contrarian view: Sam is actually doing the right things with Open AI. He has the impossible job of taking an ideologically driven research group and trying to make it into a product company. Goals aside, if he didn’t do this, investment would stop,” he posted on X. 

“See, this is the issue…everyone is angry about the fact it was “open” AI. The problem is, that wasn’t going to sustain. It had to become a product company at some point to survive,” he added. 

Altman recently told some shareholders that the …