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Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?
Perhaps they don’t want to work for a board of directors which is openly hostile to the work they’re doing?
Only time will tell, but if this was indeed "just" a coup then it's somewhat likely we're witnessing a variant of the Steve Jobs story all over again. Sam is clearly one of the top product engineering leaders in the world -- few companies could ever match OpenAI's incredible product delivery over the last few years -- and he's also one of the most connected engineering leaders in the industry. He could likely have $5…
If this pivot is what they needed to do, the drama-version isn’t the smart way to do it.
Everyone’s going to be much more excited to see what Sam pulls next and less excited to wait the dev cycles that OpenAI wants to do next.
Here's the thing. I've always been kind of cold on OpeanAI claiming to be "Open" when it was clearly a for profit thing and I was concerned about the increasing move to the commercialization of AI that Sam was taking. But I am much more concerned to be honest those who feel they need to control the development of AI to ensure it is "aligns with their principles", after all principles can change, and to quote Lewis "O…
Question is, how did the board become so unbalanced where this kind of dispute couldn’t be handled better? The commercial interests were not well-represented in the number of votes.
Man this still seems crazy to me. The idea that this tension between commercial/non-commercial aspirations got so bad they felt the nuclear option of a surprise firing of Altman was the only move available doesn't seem plausible to me. I believe this decision was ego and vanity driven with this post-hoc rationalization that it was because of the mission of "benefiting humanity."
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I can’t imagine an organization where this wouldn’t have come up on some roadmap or prioritization meeting, etc. How could leadership not know what the org is working on?! They’re not that big.
Board is not exactly leadership. They meet infrequently and get updates directly from management, they don't go around asking employees what they're working on
I hope they go back to being Open now that Altman is gone. It seems Ilya wants it to 'benefit all of humanity' again.
What are the odds Sam can work the phones this weekend and have $10B lined up by Monday for a new AI company which will take all of the good talent from OpenAI?
Training data is more restricted now, hardware is hard to get, fine tuning needs time.
The CEO always gets way too much credit externally for what the company is doing, it does not mean the CEO is that important.
OpenAI might be different, I don’t have any personal experience, but I also am not going to assume that this is a complete outlier.
Buy GOOGL?