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These past few months his name has made its way into the mainstream. Maybe its time for him (and half the GPT eng team) to cash in?
Well, this has me concerned. There were times when it felt like OpenAI at large was trying to swim one way, while Sam was trying to swim another. In those cases I always thought Sam's direction was the better one. From the outside this seems like a pretty big loss.
manifold has some play money markets about this - pure speculation of course, although traders here do take their profit somewhat seriously https://manifold.markets/Ernie/what-will-sam-altman-be-doing... And this tag contains all the markets about him https://manifold.markets/browse?topic=sam-altman Will he end up at Grok? Why was he fired? etc.
No lol: https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-hints-at-lawsuit-aga...
I wouldn't be surprised if the leadership direction of sam is related to the ousting.
Put the pieces together: Nov 6 - OpenAI devday, with new features of build-your-own ChatGPT and more Nov 9 - Microsoft cuts employees off from ChatGPT due to "security concerns" [0] Nov 9 - OpenAI experiences severe downtime the company attributes to a "DDoS" (not the correct term for 'excess usage') [3] Nov 15 - OpenAI announce no new ChatGPT plus upgrades [1] but still allow regular signups (and still do) Nov 17 -…
Put the pieces together: Nov 6 - OpenAI devday, with new features of build-your-own ChatGPT and more Nov 9 - Microsoft cuts employees off from ChatGPT due to "security concerns" [0] Nov 9 - OpenAI experiences severe downtime the company attributes to a "DDoS" (not the correct term for 'excess usage') [3] Nov 15 - OpenAI announce no new ChatGPT plus upgrades [1] but still allow regular signups (and still do) Nov 17 -…
Didn't we just have a topic here on HN how not disclosing the breach within 4 days is a securities fraud? Since Nov 9 there has been more than 4 days, so either there was no (material) breach, or Microsoft committed securities fraud and somehow expects to get away with it.
When is the last time an SV board fired their star CEO, even in cases of extreme and brazen impropriety, and actions harmful to their companies? If that's what happened - if they fired Altman for cause - then it's a good trend and good example for everyone.
I was laid off from OpenAI today along with my boss Sam.
I was the person in charge of putting together the presentations for our board meetings.
No one has told me why I was let go but Sam texted me “wtf” and next thing I know my Slack and Gmail were disabled.
I’m now looking for a new role, so if you’re hiring for investor relations, my DMs are open!
- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…