[ChatGPT Was Almost Abandoned by OpenAI: Peter Thiel Urged Altman to Go All In] Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that during the initial launch of ChatGPT in 2023, despite its rapid growth, many within the company felt that this surge was 'unstable' and even resembled 'low-value growth.' They couldn’t figure out what users were actually doing with it and doubted whether the growth could be sustained. At the time, Altman had outlined 5 or 6 other directions and discussed them with Peter Thiel. Thiel advised him not to switch. ChatGPT, like Google’s search box back in the day, has just one blank input field where users can ask anything. Thiel pointed out that Silicon Valley had been chasing Google’s business model for 20 years, and now something similar had finally emerged. Although it didn’t align with the prevailing product logic in Silicon Valley at the time, it was already growing rapidly. Switching to something else at that moment would have been 'an obvious mistake.' After hearing this, Altman decided to double down on ChatGPT. Looking back now, he describes Thiel’s advice as 'simple, yet profoundly important genius judgment.' [Original Link]