I feel like the board probably refused the demand that they issue a statement retracting the claims of wrongdoing by Altman.
Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#32Guess i was right then. On to the next, Sam. Nobody deserved to be treated like this.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#33Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
They may be king of the ash pile. Trust seems to have been broken with investors, Microsoft, the staff and the developer community at large.
I expect them to continue to be relevant, but just one of the chorus, no longer the leader.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#34This is ridiculous. AI doomer as the new CEO.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#35Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#36This is not a serious BOD. This is going to the courts, and it couldn't happen any sooner.
How do these decisions even happen? Does the board just say "Hey I know a guy, let me check if they are interested" Surely Emmett must be really capable but still seems a bit of wild card entry
One might assume that the board has known 'whatever they know' for quite some time, possibly discussed quietly behind the scenes, which includes them scouting out potential interim CEOs.
Then when it becomes clear that negotiations won't solve the problem the board drops the hammer and lets the other side make their move. If they act professionally and like adults, well, maybe there's room for negotiation after all.
If, on the other hand, they do weird childish shit, well... guess not. In with the new guy!
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#37Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
It will be funny if MSFT relicense GPT4 to Sam's new venture, I am very much looking forward to this development.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#38Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
Sam doesn't have any equity in Open AI
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#39Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
The options were probably either resign and be on the crosshairs of SV royalty for the rest of their careers or stay and play it out.
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#40The Twitch guy who now spends his day tweeting about mundane YIMBY stuff? Bizarre…
Feels like the board were "true believers" in the nonprofit/human first/guardrails and sam just wanted to zuckerberg openai by growing as fast as possible and in the end the true believers won.
What did they win exactly? This is far from the only effort to develop AI models. They were a leader for a time, but seem unlikely to continue in that position.