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OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

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Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

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post #7

If true, then the board has gone rogue. The only question is why? What could have possibly caused them to do this.

They’re fools, and thought they could oust Altman over petty grievances and that no one would care, and when it blew up, they struggled to find a solution that saves face and their careers and avoids adverse legal judgments against them individually, and they’re still frantically searching? I mean, they didn’t even have replacements in mind. They are not planners.

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#32

One thing pretty clear to me now, if even only half of these rumored reactions from the current OAI board are correct, then they have nobody or have consulted with nobody with legal and business experience regarding their actions. Like come on, a merger talk at this point is so stupid. Nobody would want to touch something this hot and the attempt alone just made OAI situation worse. What are they thinking?

I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#35

One thing pretty clear to me now, if even only half of these rumored reactions from the current OAI board are correct, then they have nobody or have consulted with nobody with legal and business experience regarding their actions. Like come on, a merger talk at this point is so stupid. Nobody would want to touch something this hot and the attempt alone just made OAI situation worse. What are they thinking?

I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eyebrow raising.

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eye…

It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.

Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.

If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#38
post #24

Why in the hell, in light of all of this nonsense, would I ever trust a startup with my money? OpenAI's board is largely a group of people who have zero skins on the wall. They got their positions by being related or married to people and being born with an entire fucking cupboard of silverware shoved in every orifice on their bodies. Even Altman was born rich and managed to fail upwards until he didn't. All hail the…

First time having the curtain pulled back?

No, it's just plainly obvious that none of these people should never be allowed around a budget much less corporate governance.

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#40
post #5

If OpenAI ends up a shell of a company with billions in cloud GPU credits, in some ways merging makes a lot of sense?

Zero chance OpenAI ends up seeing any more compute if they merge.

In this case Microsoft will have zero chance to use IP owned by the OpenAI, right? That's how mutual agreements work?

If not, why? And who's responsible for this 'Laundry Buddy' deal with Microsoft then, isn't it Sam Altman? In this case OpenAI's board did a fair job with their decision.

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