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Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#21

So, Ilya is out of the board, but Adam is still on it. I know this will raise some eyebrows but whatever. Still though, this isn't something that will just go away with Sam back. OAI will undergo serious changes now that Sam has shown himself to be irreplaceable. Future will tell but in the long terms, I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust.

I mean he's not irreplaceable so much as booting him suddenly for no good reason creates problems.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#22

    > We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

    > We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
1- So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults?

2- Now what happens to Microsoft's role in all of this?

3- Twitter is still the best place to follow this and get updates, everyone is still make "official" statements on twitter, not sure how long this website will last but until then, this is the only portal for me to get news.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#23

So, Ilya is out of the board, but Adam is still on it. I know this will raise some eyebrows but whatever. Still though, this isn't something that will just go away with Sam back. OAI will undergo serious changes now that Sam has shown himself to be irreplaceable. Future will tell but in the long terms, I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust.

"I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust." How is this the case?

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#24
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Hopefully Sam and Greg get restored to the board also.

The most recent reporting I saw from Bloomberg said sama would return as CEO only.

The new board only has 3 people to start with, but hopefully easier to add more members soon. Tonight's NYT story mentioned the board member attrition and the prolonged gridlock in adding new ones, which probably led to the current saga.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#25
post #3

Interesting that Adam is still on Board. This hints to Helen being the main perpetrator of the drama?

Well I don't see Greg back on the list and he was a loyalist so there may be a few adjustments moving forward

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#28
post #9

Hopefully Sam and Greg get restored to the board also.

The most recent reporting I saw from Bloomberg said sama would return as CEO only.

Why would he agree to this? He holds all the cards now.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#29
Quote tweets by main participants:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727206691262099616 (+ follow-up https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883)

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727206609477411261

https://twitter.com/miramurati/status/1727206862150672843

UPD https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727208843137179915

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721

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