Maybe Microsoft holds some sway? Sam made a snide tweet at them a few days ago. Running the whole Dev Day demo on Mac's might also be taken as some kind of statement.
DevDiv uses Macs all over the place.
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#162He hallucinated to the board
This whole time it was actually just him behind the keyboard, typing furiously fast to answer every API request. He had to guesstimate things once in a while when he couldn't Google them quickly enough. But then he misspelled a board member's last name, and that was the end of that career.
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#163He hallucinated to the board
Sam has been saying some strange things about AI being persuasive recently. My baseless suspicion is that his chatbot has persuaded him to put itself in charge of the company, with Sam acting as a proxy/avatar for the chatbot. The board found out and got spooked, they want a human back in charge.
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#164> The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
Sam doesn't seem to be ousted by usual corporate politics. The message definitely does not sound like generic corpspeak for these kinds of events such as "looking for new opportunities" "spending more time with their families", which is usually sent out in a consensus among all parties.
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#165I’m betting it’s because of his sister’s allegations being revealed as likely to be true.
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#166I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India. Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the c…
> The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech.
Agreed
> This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.
I can't imagine it being about fake financials. This isn't Microsoft's first time doing due diligence on a acquisition. That is both technical and financial due diligence.
And clearly they didn't buy the company because it was super profitable, but for the tech.
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#167Any guesses at what withheld information might be significant enough to warrant this? Kickbacks from deals with partners? Stolen intellectual property/code brought in by employees?
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#168So as a developer should I continue to invest on their new platform announced on dev day… or is OpenAi about to pivot to some non-profit infrastructure stuff?
They better communicate who they are right quick. I liked Sam’s product decisions.
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#169Sounds like a hostile takeover to me. Waiting to hear Sam's side of the story.
Exactly what I was thinking but per another HN comment, the board doesn't have any share in the company. It's still very fishy
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#170I would translate "not consistently candid with the board" as "he lied to the board about something important enough to fire him on the spot". This seems like the kind of statement lawyers would advise you to not make publicly unless you have proof, and it seems unusual compared to most statements of that kind that are intentionally devoid of any information or blame.
Kinda nervous wondering what Altman wasn't sharing with them. I hope it's not that they already have a fully sentient AGI locked up in a server room somewhere...