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Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by orionsbelt »

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.

Maybe she thinks the _world_ is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI, not just limited to OpenAI, and she wants to compete and do her own thing (and easily raise $1B like Ilya).

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by aresant »

It is unsuprising that Murati is leaving, she was reported to be one of the principal advocates for pushing Sam out (1)

Of course everybody was quick to play nice once OpenAI insiders got the reality check from Satya that he'd just crush them by building an internal competing group, cut funding, and instantly destroy lots of paper millionaires.

I'd imagine that Mira and others had 6 - 12 month agreeements in place to let the dust settle and finish their latest round of funding without further drama

The OpenAI soap opera is going to be a great book or movie someday

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executi...?

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by mikelitoris »

rvz wrote: post #8

> “Leaving to do my own exploration” Lets write this chapter and take some guesses, it's either going to be: 1. Anthropic. 2. SSI Inc. 3. Own AI Startup. 4. Neither. Only one is correct.

The only thing your comment says is she won’t be working simultaneously for more than one company in {1,2,3}.

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Post by blackeyeblitzar »

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 like there generally is just a lot of controversy around this “nonprofit”.
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