It’s really safe to say the big loser is OpenAI. Microsoft is effectively getting the team under their own overnight
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
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Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#12OMG, it is 12am in SF. I need to sleep.
But what a play, MSFT the winner here.
They now owns the actual OpenAI
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Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#13The next QBR with MS is going to be interesting.
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#14Seems like a very big step down to them.
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#15This was most unexpected. Hopefully it's a compromise reached mutually. Now OpenAI can fulfill what their mission is and these guys can work on AI products at MS.
Again. Very unexpected.
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#16Friday was a year ago.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#17I thought for sure the only two outcomes were that Altman raises money for a new startup or he comes back to OpenAI with a new governance structure (which is still a wild and crazy outcome, but crazier things have happened). Now that this happened though, I feel stupid for not considering this as a possible outcome at all.
The whole timeline of events over the last two events still leaves me scratching my head though.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#18Anyone else find it strange that startup founders of the magnitude of Sam & Greg would join a gigantic corporation as employees? It sounds very out of line of what you'd expect.
Maybe Sam thinks OpenAI will be so important he has a shot at CEO of Microsoft in a couple years?
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#19Wonder how long this will last. This team doesn't seem like a good fit for big corp Microsoft. Good get by MS though!
What value does Sam bring now? They have all the money they could want. All the connections they’d need.
Weird situation for him.
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#20Listen. I was confused when the whole thing was going down. I was more confused when the whole "board wants to backtrack and maybe resign" thing was going down. I got even more confused when Emmett Shear was announced as the CEO. ...but never in a hundred years would I have imagined "haha just join Microsoft" as an actual alternative. I remain, confused.
By joining Microsoft, they retain access to all the data, weights, and infrastructure they had at OpenAI. They don't have to start from scratch and ramp up. They can start up right where they left off.
Not sure about the IP, but the team can get whatever they have access in the past. It certainly speed up the restart process