A room full of startup founders and investors at the world’s biggest AI conference votes ChatGPT-maker OpenAI among ‘likely flops’

ChatGPT maker OpenAI was voted among the startups with potential to ‘FAIl’ in an informal survey at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference. The result offers an unexpected perspective on the ChatGPT maker that has $100-plus valuation. The survey asked founders and investors which AI startup they would be willing to bet against, a question not typically raised so openly in Silicon Valley. Search startup Perplexity received the most votes, followed by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Meanwhile, when the audience was asked whether they could invest in any private technology company, most people voted for the Claude maker Anthropic, while OpenAI took second place.