Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
Actually, from what I read he did not.
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
#62I’m glad people in this thread are supporting the OpenAI board in this decision. There seems to be too much celebrity worship around Altman from all the tech/crypto bros. Also, any new competition started by Altman would be good for the ecosystem in general.
So much judgement this weekend with so little information.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#63I’m glad people in this thread are supporting the OpenAI board in this decision. There seems to be too much celebrity worship around Altman from all the tech/crypto bros. Also, any new competition started by Altman would be good for the ecosystem in general.
I'd have agreed with you if it was an extensive board with many experts, both technical and policy, without any strong conflict of interests.
But at this point, we have Ilya who clearly has strong difference of opinions with Sam, Adam D'Angelo, whose company Poe has a conflict of interest with the existance of for profit OpenAI and their GPT store/customizable agents, and two other board members.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#64Foundational AI companies fracturing is going to be good for the overall market. Just like Anthropic spinning off from OpenAI brought some very cool research (particularly liked the functional introspection vs node based stuff), Altman going into his own venture to compete will help diversify the overall space. And while many seem to be thinking this is going to bode poorly for OpenAI, I think perhaps long term it mi…
It probably is a good thing, not because Ilya is going to safeguard humanity’s future, but because it’s better to have a very competitive field rather than one break away winner. No lone genius will invent AGI. It will be a collective effort of dozens of labs, trading talent and methods. If OpenAI is a few years ahead now, they will quickly lose that edge due to this infighting and others will catch up.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#65I wonder if the recent departure of Kyle Vogt from Cruise is related. Emmett Shear and Kyle Vogt founded Twitch together.
It would make a lot of sense. Kyle knows the space, is already wealthy and has always been pretty altruistic.
And the fact that Emmett is only interim should give you a hint something is up.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#66This is not a serious BOD. This is going to the courts, and it couldn't happen any sooner.
Who's gonna sue if there's no shareholders being that it's a non profit?
There are investors including sequoia, Tiger Global and Microsoft[1]. They may well have standing to sue.
[1] Sorry - the full list is behind a paywall https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openai/company_finan...
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#67Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
the entire organisational structure of openAI was literally designed for exactly that. Like Mozilla, the for-profit arm of the company is legally subject to the non-profit.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#68I’m glad people in this thread are supporting the OpenAI board in this decision. There seems to be too much celebrity worship around Altman from all the tech/crypto bros. Also, any new competition started by Altman would be good for the ecosystem in general.
Yes, I'm very interested to see what Sam and Greg achieve without Ilya.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#69Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
What can Microsoft do? Tell OpenAI they break their long-term agreement just because?..
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#70Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
have you read any of the articles at all before firing off that sentence?