OpenAI's rapid growth loaded with 'corner case' challenges, says Fivetran CEO
Interview When OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March last year, it was coy about the model's size and what went into making it. Nonetheless, the current focus of AI-obsessed media and investors is understood to have employed a diverse dataset of around 1 petabyte. Aside from the challenge of getting that data to provide meaningful output, the company was tasked with getting the data in the right place.
Step forward Fivetran, an automated data integration outfit that isn't shy to talk about its partnership with OpenAI, the company that – for good or for ill – has come to symbolize the tidal wave of interest in GenAI.
Speaking to The Register, CEO George Fraser said OpenAI represented one end of the extreme of its customers, while long-established global businesses such as consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble represented another.
"You look at a company like OpenAI or other startups; they have infrastructure that looks like a small company infrastructure, except for scale. It's like a baby that's like 100 stories tall. You encounter unexpected and different problems," he said.
