Some great details about OpenAI's compensation here:
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OpenAI and Anthropic Staff Incentives Misaligned With Company Missions
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Both OpenAI (through "Profit Participation Units") and Anthropic offer compensation that's primarily based on profitability. Yet OpenAI is run by a non-profit and Anthropic is a PBC. This means that staff incentives are by definition not aligned with the companies' missions.
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Unknown Researcher’s Breakthrough at OpenAI Challenges Academic Expectations
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now seems as good a time as ever to remind people that the biggest breakthroughs at OpenAI came from a previously unknown researcher with a bachelors degree from olin college of engineering
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Theory: Altman fired for hiding a conscious AI from OpenAI
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Il y a une théorie que Sam Altman aurait été viré parce que OpenAI aurait trouver un moyen d’avoir une IA consciente / AGI et qu’il ne l’a pas dis au board.
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 18 novembre 2023
Cette thèse revient souvent en plus chez de gros acteurs de la tech mais venez on souffle et on redevient sérieux 2 sc.. https://t.co/MHReYiT3CzThere is a theory that Sam Altman was fired because OpenAI found a way to have a conscious AI / AGI and he did not tell the board. This thesis often comes up among big tech players but come on, let's breathe and get serious for 2 seconds..
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Awaiting Details on OpenAI Internal Developments and Changes
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Patiently waiting for the @CadeMetz drop on what actually happened at OpenAI. pic.twitter.com/NnvRL0CrVs
— Paul Roetzer (@paulroetzer) 18 novembre 2023Patiently waiting for the @CadeMetz drop on what actually happened at OpenAI.
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Clear Leader Emerges in OpenAI CEO Poll Survey
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There's a very clear leader in the OpenAI CEO poll at this stage:
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Confusion about OpenAI’s status and public perception
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I still cannot grasp what happened. So is open ai the baddy now we all hate?
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Mobile-Era CEO Culture Clashes With Traditional Scientific Research Pace
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This is in a field filled with researchers accustomed to the deliberate and thoughtful (and slow) scientific progress. That classic mobile-era CEO, supercharged by ZIRP, focused on growth and global impact above else. And he’s been a Bay Area fixture for more than a decade.
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OpenAI LP Structure Prioritizes Safe AGI Over Investor Returns
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And details on the “capped-profit” company—OpenAI LP—announced in March 2019: “We’ve designed OpenAI LP to put our overall mission—ensuring the creation and adoption of safe and beneficial AGI—ahead of generating returns for investors” https://
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Sam’s Ouster: Silicon Valley AI CEO Leadership Profile
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Now that details are emerging about Sam’s ouster I’ll resurface what I sent out last night. Sam’s an anomaly of a CEO in AI: he’s a classic 2010s era Silicon Valley popped-collar startup founder deeply entrenched in the Bay Area tech scene through YC.