Chatting with a good friend who has a PhD in AI from CUHK and has worked on various AI models - key takeaways:

1. OpenAI is garbage
2. A senior student from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications used Claude to build a project in 2 weeks and sold it for $30 million USD; wants to start their own business too but lacks ideas; the window of opportunity is this year
3. Claude already has the ability to train itself; other large models basically all have self-training capabilities, it's just that everyone doesn't talk about it externally
4. Video AI will have qualitative leaps in the next two years; editing AI is much harder than expected
5. Particularly anxious about job loss