This is more interesting than the HBO Silicon Valley show.
OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
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#12Drama queens
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#13> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?
There must be something going on which is not in the public domain.
What an utterly bizarre turn of events, and to have it all played out in public.
A $90 billion valuation at stake too!
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#15The key line:
“Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join.”
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#16Ilya signed it??? He's on the board... This whole thing is such an implosion of ambition.
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#17This was handled so very, very poorly. Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone, especially if they end up getting almost 500 new AI staff out of it (staff that already function well as a team).
> In their letter, the OpenAI staff threaten to join Altman at Microsoft. “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join," they write.
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#18> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?
If it weren’t so unbelievable, I’d almost accuse them of orchestrating all this to sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny.
It’s like they distressed the company to make an acquisition one of mercy instead of aggression, knowing they already had their buyer lined up.
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#19It seems odd to have it described as “may resign.” Seems like the worst of all worlds.
That’s like trying to create MAD with the position you “may” launch nukes in retaliation.
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#20At this point, I think it’s absolutely clear no one has any idea what happened. Every speculation, no matter how sophisticated, has been wrong.
It’s time to take a breath, step back, and wait until someone from OpenAI says something substantial.