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OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

throw_pm23 wrote: post #3

Almost every story we get seems to point in the direction of the board being erratic and incompetent. I feel like either that has to be the obvious truth, or I am being gaslighted by a concerted effort from the other side.

I think it comes across that way because they actually take the non-profit original mission and ethics more seriously than the for-profit business, which is an incomprehensible shock to most capitalists. However, it makes sense if Anthropic left in the first place because they didn't agree with sama's direction of the company, and this is just round 2 of the OAI civil war in regards to whether OAI's original non-profit mission ACTUALLY matters or not.

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by robg »

Looking more and more like the dev day nuking of D’Angelo’s Poe led to this outcome. I’m surprised that connection has escaped close scrutiny - it was a conflict of interest AND now Poe is viable again as intended. For a minor player in AI he’s managed to maximize his interests and while serving on a non-profit board.

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by natdempk »

csunbird wrote: post #10
infecto wrote: post #4

This will be a fun book to read after it's all done. As its happening I had no idea what is going on though. Surely the board can not be this incompetent? Who kicks out a current CEO without having found a replacement or at the very least a shortlist. No evidence has come out that sama did anything egregious against OpenAI. Truly one of the most bizarre sequence of events I have ever witnessed.

I believe they had a shortlist, but no one stepped up to take the job.

Even then, that “shortlist” was clearly built in a total scramble after their first interim CEO sided with Sam.

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by infecto »

csunbird wrote: post #10
infecto wrote: post #4

This will be a fun book to read after it's all done. As its happening I had no idea what is going on though. Surely the board can not be this incompetent? Who kicks out a current CEO without having found a replacement or at the very least a shortlist. No evidence has come out that sama did anything egregious against OpenAI. Truly one of the most bizarre sequence of events I have ever witnessed.

I believe they had a shortlist, but no one stepped up to take the job.

Which is at least good to hear but typically you would think there would have been feelers out there to gauge temperature. Perhaps this is indicative of a board that does not have as much business professional experience.

Still hilarious that Emmett Shear was not only offered the role but accepted. Amusing to see the individual who said we need to severely slow down AI work to now be heading up the leading company in the space.

Edit: I guess the true measure is that nobody read the room from employees and went ahead with this whole fiasco.

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by siva7 »

olalonde wrote: post #5
throw_pm23 wrote: post #3

Almost every story we get seems to point in the direction of the board being erratic and incompetent. I feel like either that has to be the obvious truth, or I am being gaslighted by a concerted effort from the other side.

I also noticed an unusually high amount of throwaway accounts on OpenAI threads lately. I am not sure whether it's a concerted effort but Altman does seem to have a lot of fans.

Rather than putting up a conspiracy theory the much more plausible explanation is that this board evidently pissed off a lot of customers, powerful people in tech and almost all employees of openai.

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by upwardbound »

robg wrote: post #13

Looking more and more like the dev day nuking of D’Angelo’s Poe led to this outcome. I’m surprised that connection has escaped close scrutiny - it was a conflict of interest AND now Poe is viable again as intended. For a minor player in AI he’s managed to maximize his interests and while serving on a non-profit board.

This theory is endorsed by OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, Dr. Boris Power, who retweeted a Robert Scoble tweet saying this. See his twitter timeline here https://twitter.com/borismpower?lang=en

Re: OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

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Post by wyy1995 »

Judging from the current situation, openai's board of directors are all shameless people. If they still have dignity, they should resign immediately. They were unqualified and incapable of managing one of the most important technology companies in the world, and they destroyed a shining company, a great product, and the dreams of countless people. I will never use Poe and Quora again, and I will boycott any product related to Adam D'Angelo. Adam D'Angelo is an asshole.He doesn't have any shares in OpenAI, so he doesn't care about destroying OpenAI at all.Absolutely ridiculous, the only reason I can think of is that he's extremely jealous of Sam.
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