The OpenAI Deployment Company

siva7

So this is body leasing for ai experts under the umbrella of the openai brand? are they moving all their existing fde under this new company?

righthand

> The OpenAI Deployment Company is a committed partnership between OpenAI and 19 leading global investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators. The partnership is led by TPG, with Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield as co-lead founding partners, and B Capital, BBVA, Emergence Capital, Goanna, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank Corp., Warburg Pincus, and WCAS as founding partners. > Investors also include leading consulting and systems integration firms, including Bain & Company, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Company. All of these companies are invested in Palantir too right? Why does this “deployment company” sound like more Palantir?

drdrek

Nothing says easy to use revolutionary new way to work like requiring implementation middlemen. Salesforce would be proud.

sethops1

> Forward Deployed Engineers We have a word for this, it's "consultant".

senko

I run a dev agency, and I can spot one when I see one. The trouble with dev agencies, "services companies", integration specialists and "forward deployed engineers" is that they scale lineraly with the number of people. You can't 100x your revenue without at least 80x-ing your headcount.Oh, you might go for that once due to AI - but so can everyone else. After that, it's boring linear growth. When I say "boring", I don't mean as "capitalism requires exponential growth" critique. I mean OpenAI valuation is not priced for that. They're priced for singularity. If the bulk of their revenue turns out to be bodyshop, that's...quite a different math. The way to charge big with this kind of work is to do what big consultancies (MBB, IBM, etc) do: brand equity and (supposed) expertise in solving domain problems. OpenAI has ... interesting tech. It's going to be interesting seeing if they can pull this off. If I were a betting man, my money would be on "no".

zelias

too little too late

clvx

This sounds like forward engineering as a service

joostdevries

I guess this is a sign that Mistral AI is on to something.

ramesh31

Surely bodyshop work will scale to trillions of dollars

3638384849

Agi 2027 btw or smth

villgax

So basically people who will wrap the openai SDK but sit at your company's offices lol what a joke

yifanl

Is the sentiment around OpenAI already so bad that it's even fallen off the front page of Hacker News in two hours?

rubiquity

People laugh at this, myself included in the past, but it works. I remember scoffing at AWS partnering with Deloitte and Accenture over a decade ago. My exact thoughts were "Our technology is great, why do we need these people to sell it?", and it turns out that selling to enterprises at scale is a lot more like an American high school experience than anything else.

redwood

For those who have not read it this is a terrific overview on the value of the FDE trend https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/reflections-on-palantir