{"id":108877,"date":"2025-10-30T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108877\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:09:07","slug":"openai-sierra-technologies-exec-bret-taylor-isnt-afraid-of-an-ai-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108877\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI, Sierra Technologies Exec Bret Taylor Isn\u2019t Afraid of an AI Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In many ways, Stanford University is a monument to trillion-dollar success stories, with buildings named after Microsoft Corp.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/profiles\/william-h-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bill Gates<\/a> and Nvidia Corp.\u2019s Jensen Huang. But as Bret Taylor leans back in his chair at an outdoor cafe just off the main quad, the chairman of OpenAI and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Sierra Technologies Inc. is fixating on how those stories can suddenly go horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Studying computer science on this fabled California campus as a sophomore in 1999, Taylor lived through the euphoria of Web 1.0, when expensive Sun Microsystems workstations lined student labs and once-hot tech brands doled out snacks as a recruitment ploy. Soon after, the internet bubble burst, the free pizza and job offers vanishing alongside $5 trillion in market value. (Sun\u2019s own market cap plummeted as much as 96%, and most kids these days can\u2019t even name this previously dominant force in servers and software.) Taylor jokes that he and his cohort of Xennial coders double-majored in computer science and \u201cthe hype cycles of Silicon Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In many ways, Stanford University is a monument to trillion-dollar success stories, with buildings named after Microsoft Corp.\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[71632,365,16544,363,364,138,31956,9799,19982,5741,111,139,69,147,78310,8183,1046,145,13765],"class_list":["post-108877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-a-walk-with","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-businessweek","tag-customer-service","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-sierra-technologies-inc","tag-software","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-volkswagen-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}