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> Since then, OpenAI's board has been refreshed with more tech executives, chaired by Bret Taylor, former Salesforce co-CEO who now runs his own AI startup. Any corporate changes need approval from its nine-person non-profit board. Why would the non-profit board approve a change to a for-profit company? Wouldn't this be against the nature of the non-profit entity that was founded and which they are supposed to govern…
It’s so weird that the person behind Loopt has now come fully in charge of this company and perverted its initial goals so completely. I’m still not clear on what Sam has accomplished or why he was put in charge of YC or OpenAI. Also apparently chairman of Helion Energy (fusion startup). Masterclass in failing up.
Being so good that you get in charge of YC, and not fired by PG at all, makes you perfect to meta-morph 'OpenAI' into some dystopian big corp, as seen.
It’s so weird that the person behind Loopt has now come fully in charge of this company and perverted its initial goals so completely. I’m still not clear on what Sam has accomplished or why he was put in charge of YC or OpenAI. Also apparently chairman of Helion Energy (fusion startup). Masterclass in failing up.
At this stage though, he has no more place to fail up to!
I figured they’d ship GPT-5 to justify OAI-5, but I guess they’ve realized that they now answer to no one on anything in practical terms.
That’s terrifying.
a historic reminder
Probably now everyone is starting to realize that Sam Altman really is far worse than Elon and everyone was very late to understand this after the coup that happened nearly a year ago. Perhaps this is what Mira, Greg and IIya saw in Sam; his true intentions after that coup. This 'non-profit' / 'for-profit' complication structure + taking capped investment won't be tried again in a very long time after these events.
Posted another source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653028) since I feel this needs a discussion. This one has a more descriptive headline though.
It is weird that I get this news item from my local general interest newspaper in Europe but not from the HN front page, isn't it? Posted another source ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41653028 ) since I feel this needs a discussion. This one has a more descriptive headline though.