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I wonder if the recent departure of Kyle Vogt from Cruise is related. Emmett Shear and Kyle Vogt founded Twitch together.
Kyle's story was brewing from the moment GM appointed their attorney to manage Cruise - everyone knew there was gonna be restructuring of the executive team after the incident.
If anything, it was a convenient time for Kyle to step down as it wouldn't get a lot of prime time thanks to OpenAI drama.
You can hear Microsoft’s billions going up in flames. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.
Assuming that's the end of the story, what hardcore ML people do Altman and Brockman have now for their new AI startup? Or are they just going to focus on the hardware thing?
You can hear Microsoft’s billions going up in flames. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.
Actually this is going to be great for Microsoft. By cutting its other revenue streams OpenAI has lost all of its leverage. So now will shrink to being effectively an external dev team for Bing / Windows.
Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
I still cannot process what’s happened to one of the most prominent and hyped companies of the past year in just one weekend. If it’s true that Altman won’t return to OpenAI (or alternatively: that the current board won’t step down) then where does that leave OpenAI? Microsoft can’t be happy, as evidenced by reporting that Nadella was acting as mediator to bring him back. Does OpenAI survive this? Will be super inter…
Crazy 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?..
I think one thing is for certain: OpenAI now, won't worth that much any more.
I still cannot process what’s happened to one of the most prominent and hyped companies of the past year in just one weekend. If it’s true that Altman won’t return to OpenAI (or alternatively: that the current board won’t step down) then where does that leave OpenAI? Microsoft can’t be happy, as evidenced by reporting that Nadella was acting as mediator to bring him back. Does OpenAI survive this? Will be super inter…
So questioning whether they will survive seems very silly and incredibly premature to me
The real winner in all this is once again Tim Cook, the only tech CEO to not constantly flail around dripping in flop sweat chasing the buzzword du jour.
I know it's small potatoes but those other CEOs have added hundreds of millions of dollars in ARR to their bottom lines on AI, in particular open ai. Microsoft doesn't think you're a real product line til a billion plus ARR but still, it's not nothing.
Apple has rarely been first to market with technology. However they often are first to have a cohesive user experience that integrates it in.
So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...