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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—”๐—œ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฎ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—™๐˜‚๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—”๐—œ & ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ Silicon Valley is built on "๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐ฆ๐š๐Ÿ๐ข๐š๐ฌ." A group of brilliant minds works at a breakthrough company. Then, they leave to build their own empiresโ€”shaping the future of an entire industry. It happened in the 1950s with the Traitorous Eight, who left Shockley Semiconductor to create Fairchildโ€”and later ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ. It happened in the 1990s with the PayPal Mafia, whose alumniโ€”๐„๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ค, ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฅ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐ž๐ข๐ ๐‡๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฆ๐š๐งโ€”built companies now worth over $1 trillion. Now, a new mafia has emerged. And it's already controlling the future of AIโ€”while making billions. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—”๐—œ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฎ: ๐—”๐—œโ€™๐˜€ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ OpenAI started in 2015 with a bold mission: Ensure artificial intelligence benefits humanity. With ๐’๐š๐ฆ ๐€๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ค as early backers, they built an elite AI team: ๐ˆ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐š ๐’๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ค๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ โ€“ AI research visionary ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง ๐’๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐š๐ง โ€“ Reinforcement learning expert ๐Œ๐ข๐ซ๐š ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข โ€“ Engineering genius ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐จ ๐€๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ข โ€“ AI safety pioneer Then, everything changed. In 2019, OpenAI ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š โ€œ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐-๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญโ€ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ to fund its expensive research. By 2024, the company was in turmoil: Microsoftโ€™s $13 billion investment shifted priorities. Internal battles over ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐š๐Ÿ๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฌ. ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง escalated. OpenAI was losing $5 billion a year, leading to aggressive monetization. The result? A mass ๐ž๐ฑ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญโ€”who left to build their own AI giants. ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ข๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—”๐—œ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฎ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—–๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฏ Just like the PayPal Mafia, these former OpenAI leaders are now shaping the next wave of AI innovationโ€”and making billions in the process: 1- ๐’๐š๐Ÿ๐ž ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž (๐’๐’๐ˆ) Founded by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAIโ€™s former Chief Scientist. ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Build the first safe superintelligence. ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ : Raised $1B+, valued at $30B+. 2- ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ Founded by Dario Amodei, OpenAIโ€™s former VP of Research. ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Create constitutional AIโ€”with built-in safety guardrails. ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ : Raised $7.3B+ from Google, Amazon, and others. 3- ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐‹๐š๐› Led by Mira Murati, OpenAIโ€™s former CTO. ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Enhance human-AI collaboration across industries. ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ: 30+ top researchersโ€”two-thirds from OpenAI. 4- ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐€๐ˆ Founded by Aravind Srinivas, a former OpenAI research scientist. ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Reinvent search with AI-driven direct answers (Google without links). ๐•๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: $๐Ÿ—๐+. 5- ๐ฑ๐€๐ˆ (๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ค) Founded by Elon Musk, an OpenAI co-founder turned competitor. ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Build a reasoning-focused AI (Grok 3 just launched). ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž: Running on 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ: ๐—” $๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฆ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ณ๐˜ History shows what happens when a tech mafia forms. The PayPal Mafia didnโ€™t just build companiesโ€”they ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐, ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ, creating an unstoppable network. The same is happening now. OpenAI alumni are ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ฌ, and actively shaping the next generation of artificial intelligence. They arenโ€™t just influencing the future of AIโ€”they are the future of AI. And in the next 10 years? Their network could be worth $10 trillion. Follow Vishu Bheda for more such amazing business and tech insights!

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