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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#963Follow the GPU. - Sam Altman _briefly_ went on record saying that openAI was extremely GPU constrained. Article was quickly redacted. - Most recent round literally was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the cap table: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-capital-to-le... - Plus signups paused. If OpenAI needs gpu to succeed, and can't raise any more capital to pay for it without dilution/going past MSFT's…
Sam & team to AMD now?
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#964Follow the GPU. - Sam Altman _briefly_ went on record saying that openAI was extremely GPU constrained. Article was quickly redacted. - Most recent round literally was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the cap table: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-capital-to-le... - Plus signups paused. If OpenAI needs gpu to succeed, and can't raise any more capital to pay for it without dilution/going past MSFT's…
Sam & team to AMD now?
Somewhere closer to a GPU source. E.g. a new company that can trade unlimited equity for GPU time from a hyperscale cloud vendor, or work for the vendor itself.
Probably not Alibaba though.
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#965The one thing Altman did wrong imo is seemingly tried to become the "technical face" of the company. He was trying to be somewhat like Musk, but he is clearly not that at OpenAI. For example, why was he at Cambridge talking to academics by himself? He should have used this as an opportunity to put some of the leading researchers in the spotlight.
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#966A obvious question...
GPU SoCs have limited memory just like the current crop of CPU SoCs. Is the hard wall to breakthrough in AGI via chatGPT software bounded or hardware bounded?
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#969I wonder if Sam did something in the name of his own philosophy, but was financially suicide. Like vastly underestimating the costs of training/inferencing to the board, but justifying it to himself because it's all going towards building AGI and that's what matters.
But them firing him also means that OpenAI's heavy hitters weren't that devoted to him either. Obviously otherwise they would all leave after him. Probably internal conflict, maybe between Ilya and Sam, with everyone else predictably being on Ilya's side.
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