A mission, without a way to fund it, is hallucination. @sama enabled the pursuit of the mission. The announcements on dev day would also generate revenue for pursuing the mission.
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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.
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OpenAI’s Early Vision Beyond Big Tech Ambitions
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I think for a company that wants to be the next Apple or Meta or Google then that dev day would be a fantastic step. But I don't think anyone I spoke to in the early days of OpenAI would have been at all happy if someone said they could be the next big tech co.
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Ilya’s Actions Accelerate Formation of Safety-Indifferent AI Organizations
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The real irony is that Ilya & Co have just accelerated the formation of multiple organizations that likely don’t care about safety at all.
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Sam Altman and OpenAI: A Silicon Valley narrative
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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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AI startup achieves $1 billion funding goal milestone
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Maybe not! Maybe he was exactly what was needed to get that $1b they needed. But they've achieved that goal now.
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OpenAI Codex Release Sparks Safety Concerns, Anthropic Founded
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With the release of Codex, however, we had the first culture clash that was beyond saving: those who really believed in the safety mission were horrified that OAI was releasing a powerful LLM that they weren't 100% sure was safe. The company split, and Anthropic was born.
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OpenAI’s Founding: Brilliant Researchers and Unexpected Leaders
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When OAI was founded I felt like it was gonna but a rough ride. It was created by a bunch of brilliant researchers that I knew and respected, plus some huge names from outside the field: Elon, GDB, and sama, none of who I'd ever come across at any AI/ML conference or meetup.
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Brilliant Operators Drive Company Growth Despite Culture Shock
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Everything I'd heard about those 3 was that they were brilliant operators and that they did amazing work. But it felt likely to be a huge culture shock on all sides. But the company absolutely blossomed nonetheless.
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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.