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Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by postingawayonhn »

mrits wrote: post #32
benjaminwootton wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

I wonder how many people are on a path for a $250K/year salary instead of $30M in the bank now.

Microsoft can easily afford to offer them $30M of options each if they continue to ship such important products. That's only $15B for 500 staff.

Microsoft has a $2.75T market value and over $140B of cash.

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Mystery-Machine wrote: post #113
breadwinner wrote: post #51

If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT. Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits. So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts. [1]…

Why does Microsoft have full rights to ChatGPT IP? Where did you get that from? Source?

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Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by Finnucane »

hackerfactor1 wrote: post #57

Me: "ChatGPT write me an ultimatum letter forcing the board to resign and reinstate the CEO, and have it signed by 500 of the employees." ChatGPT: Done!

Clearly this started with the board asking ChatGPT what to do about Sam Altman.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by RivieraKid »

georgehill wrote: post #3

> 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?

The screenwriters are overdoing it at this point.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by ThinkBeat »

Sam already signed up with Microsoft. A move that surprised me, I figured he would just create OpenAI².

Joining a corporate behemoth like Microsoft and all the complications it brings with it will mean a massive reduction in the freedom and innovation that Sam is used to from OpenAI (prior to this mess).

Or is Microsoft saying: Here is OpenAI², a Microsoft subsidiary created juste for you guys. You can run it and do whatever you want. No giant bureaucracy for you guys.

Btw: we run all of OpenAi²s compute,(?) so we know what you guys need from us there.

we won it but you can run it and do whatever it is you want to do and we dont bug you about it.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by dhruvdh »

breadwinner wrote: post #51

If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT. Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits. So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts. [1]…

More importantly to me, I think generating synthetic data is OpenAI's secret sauce (no evidence I am aware of), and they need access to GPT-4 weights to train GPT-5.
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