OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return

Post by jacquesm » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

croes wrote: post #268

jacquesm wrote: post #132

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Yes, hence the word 'settlement' in my original comment. As in: you ensure we get a controlling interest and we'll let you go quietly.

MS doesn't have enough leverage to pull such move. The board could decide to kill the company in MS not only loses a 10 billion invest but has to reconsider its whole artificial intelligence integration push.

This comment didn't age well.

MS did have the leverage, and by offering jobs to 700 people at once they felt safe in their move to pressure the board in a way that I'm still quite impressed by. It's probably the most vivid example of the power of the workforce in the 21st century West.

Post by spaceman_2020 » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

otteromkram wrote: post #130

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #109

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Employees hate working for companies where they have no voice too. Morale will drop and attrition will skyrocket. New talent won't consider OpenAI, existing talent will leave. The investment goes to zero anyway without talent.

Plenty of talent flooding the market right now. Say, what agenda are you trying to push, spaceman? This is the second comment of yours in this thread trying to make it seem like everyone at OpenAI is irreplaceable, so maybe you missed the hundreds of thousands of tech layoffs this year in the US.

Not all talent is the same.

This field is small and nascent enough that there are really only a small number of people who can build something like GPT-4.

Re: OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return

Re: OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s return