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Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by mewse-hn »

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #19

It doesn’t make sense to me that someone in such a position at a place like OpenAI would leave. So I assume that means she was forced out, maybe due to underperformance, or the failed coup, or something else. Anyone know what the story is on her background and how she got into that position and what she contributed? I’ve heard interesting stories, some positive and some negative, but can’t tell what’s true. It seems…

There are some good articles that explain what happened with the coup, that's the main thing to read up on. As for the reason she's leaving, you don't take a shot at the leader of the organization, miss, and then expect to be able to remain at the organization. She's probably been on house leave since it happened for the sake of optics at OpenAI.

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by steinvakt »

rvz wrote: post #68
paxys wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A simpler explanation is that SamA is consolidating power at the company and pushing out everyone who hasn't been loyal to him from the start.

And it also explains what Mira (and everyone else who left) saw; the true cost of a failed coup and what Sam Altman is really doing since he is consolidating power at OpenAI (and getting equity)

So "What did Ilya see" might just be "Ilya actually saw Sam"

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by ren_engineer »

Imnimo wrote: post #7

It is hard for me to square "This company is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI" and "I'm stepping away to do my own thing". Maybe I'm just bad at putting myself in someone else's shoes, but I feel like if I had spent years working towards a vision of AGI, and thought that success was finally just around the corner, it'd be very difficult to walk away.

most of the people seem to be leaving due to the direction where Altman is taking OpenAI. It went from a charity to him seemingly doing everything possible to monetize it for himself both directly and indirectly by him trying to raise funds for AI adjacent traditionally structured companies he controlled

probably not coincidence that she resigned at almost the same time the rumors about OpenAI completely removing the non-profit board are getting confirmed - https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by ren_engineer »

redbell wrote: post #73

Sutskever [1], Karpathy [2], Schulman [3], and Murati today! Who's next? Altman ?! _________________ 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365935 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168904

you've also got Brockman taking a sabbatical, who knows if he comes back at the end of it

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by blackeyeblitzar »

fairity wrote: post #78

Everyone postulating that this was Sam’s bidding is forgetting that Greg also left this year, clearly on his own volition. That makes it much more probable that these execs have simply lost faith in OpenAI.

Or that they are losing a power struggle against Sam

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by chinathrow »

tomrod wrote: post #53
Imnimo wrote: post #7

It is hard for me to square "This company is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI" and "I'm stepping away to do my own thing". Maybe I'm just bad at putting myself in someone else's shoes, but I feel like if I had spent years working towards a vision of AGI, and thought that success was finally just around the corner, it'd be very difficult to walk away.

My take is that Altman recognizes LLM winter is coming and is trying to entrench.

Looking at ChatGPT or Claude coding output, it's already here.
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