Sam Altman is so Richard Hendricks. OpenAI is so Pied Piper. All of this seems like an episode of Silicon Valley.
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ChatGPT Reports Sam Altman’s OpenAI Departure Accurately
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When @OpenAI announced @sama
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OpenAI Shifts to Profit Model While Maintaining Non-Profit Control
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Now OAI accelerated in its new direction. It wasn't open any more, and it decided to pursue profits to fund its non-profit goals. Nonetheless, the company remained controlled by the non-profit, and therefore by its board.
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OpenAI Dev Day criticism and insider perspective analysis
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OK everyone's asking me for my take on the OpenAI stuff, so here it is. I have a strong feeling about what's going on, but no internal info so this is just me talking. The first point to make is that the Dev Day was (IMO) an absolute embarrassment.
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Corporate Keynote Fails to Deliver on AGI Promises
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I could barely watch the keynote. It was just another bland corp-speak bunch of product updates. For those researchers I know that were involved from the beginning, this must have felt nausea-inducing. The plan was AGI, lifting society to a new level. We got Laundry Buddy.
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Microsoft Could Acquire OpenAI as Potential Solution
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Random thought. Is one possible path forward that Microsoft just acquires OpenAI? Not even sure how that sort of thing would work given OpenAI’s structure, but this is very bad for both companies. An acquisition might be a way out.
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Sam Altman Departs OpenAI Leadership
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Sam Altman departs Open AI https://
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Board governance crisis threatens transformative AI company
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This just sucks. Imagine the most transformative company of the generation being destroyed by a board with no equity, half of which seemingly has nothing to do with AI, one of which owns a competitor. https://
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Fired OpenAI Employees Legal Protection and Market Competition
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Maybe but depending on how / why they were fired, they might have legal arguments to protect them. I don’t expect them to make a direct OpenAI competitor tho.
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OpenAI Board Removes Sam Altman as Chief Executive Officer
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OpenAI’s Board Pushes Out Sam Altman, Its High-Profile C.E.O.