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Yeah, what the hell? Do we know why Murati was replaced?
Apparently she tried to rehire Sam and Greg. I don't think she actually had anything to do with the coup, she was only slightly less blindsided than everyone else.
OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
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#44So Ilya Sutskever first defends the board's decision and now it is 180 flip. Interesting ...
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#45> 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?
If it weren’t so unbelievable, I’d almost accuse them of orchestrating all this to sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny. It’s like they distressed the company to make an acquisition one of mercy instead of aggression, knowing they already had their buyer lined up.
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#48From outside, it looks like a Microsoft coup to take over the company all together.
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#50Well that accelerated very quickly and this is perhaps the most dysfunctional startup I have ever seen. All due to one word: Greed.
Yet they start this kind of nonsense.
Not exactly focusing on building a great system or product.