What gave you the early conviction to invest billions into OpenAI when scaling laws were still largely unproven?

Back when Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman were working together, they demonstrated an unwavering conviction in empirical scaling laws that impressed me deeply. Rather than viewing machine learning as incremental heuristic engineering, they treated computational scale as an inexorable physical law. We decided to co-design Azure infrastructure specifically around their ambitious training cluster requirements.