He’s been the chief technology officer at Facebook and the chairman of Twitter. But Bret Taylor’s current gig might be his most consequential. As chairman of OpenAI, the Silicon Valley giant behind ChatGPT, Taylor is at the very front of an artificial intelligence wave threatening to upend industries from technology and energy to financial services.
Then there’s his other business – customer service agent start-up Sierra, itself valued at $US10 billion ($14 billion) – which has him straddling the AI boom and worries in venture capital land that automation will seriously harm the growth prospects of subscription software businesses.
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