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Anyone 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.
Edit: Sam is CEO of the new AI division.
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Maybe Sam thinks OpenAI will be so important he has a shot at CEO of Microsoft in a couple years?
But Satya is making a few 100 mil a year, tops. Sam could easily make himself a billionaire with one raise. And who wants to control all of Microsoft, that's a whole lot of headaches
Greed is hell of a thing
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What value does Sam bring now? They have all the money they could want. All the connections they’d need. Weird situation for him.
Agreed. Sam isn’t some AI visionary, he’s a startup guy. Unless he’s leading a team that’s going to spin out a new company, I don’t get it.
Did Microsoft just effectively acquire 100% of OpenAI without actually needing to cross the 49% regulatory hurdle? Depending on who follows them to MSFT, that might actually be the outcome here. And OpenAI is suddenly Xerox Parc.
No, Ilya alone is like 75% of the brains and I'm fairly certain he's not going anywhere.
We have seen similar stories with Nokia, Slack, others.
Presumably Sam and Greg now get to pick up where they left off and keep productizing GPT-4 since Microsoft has the IP and is hosting their own GPT-4 models on Azure, right? The more interesting thing is whether or not they'll be able to build and release something equivalent to GPT-5, using Microsoft's immense resources, before OpenAI is able to.