Alejandro Sahuquillo(@alsahuquillo):Did you know Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) was a @Tesla shareholder in 2015? Here he is asking @elonmusk about self-driving cars. That same year, Musk helped recruit him from Google to co-found OpenAI. When Google published the Transformer paper in 2017, Ilya immediately saw what almost nobody else did: “Drop everything! Start working on the transformer! It’s going to be amazing,” @scmallaby recounts in The Infinity Machine. The bet was simple: if a model could predict the next word well enough, it wouldn’t just learn grammar. It would start to learn the world. That bet became GPT. Then ChatGPT. Nice hair, btw 😂

2026.09.16 16:19

Did you know Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) was a @Tesla shareholder in 2015? Here he is asking @elonmusk about self-driving cars. That same year, Musk helped recruit him from Google to co-found OpenAI. When Google published the Transformer paper in 2017, Ilya immediately saw what almost nobody else did: “Drop everything! Start working on the transformer! It’s going to be amazing,” @scmallaby recounts in The Infinity Machine. The bet was simple: if a model could predict the next word well enough, it wouldn’t just learn grammar. It would start to learn the world. That bet became GPT. Then ChatGPT. Nice hair, btw 😂