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OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger
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#52Will Knight, a writer for Wired, is stating “I have reason to believe that the OpenAI Anthropic merger story is a complete fabrication”:
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#53One 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.
But who has the power to remove the board?
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#54From all the comments and the way things happened in the last 96 hours, it sounds like the board was entirely incompetent. I’ve interacted with board members with various companies over my career, and everyone on the board is extremely junior.
>I’ve interacted with board members with various companies over my career, and everyone on the board is extremely junior.
Yes, you've hit on the thing that bothered me when I read the members' bios after Altman's firing but didn't figure out until reading your comment. It's not so much what they say, as much as what they don't say. There is no greybeard, some seasoned current/former CEO of another company (no, the CEO of Quora does not quality). There is no VC representative.
I realize that OpenAI has this weird nonprofit/profit ownership arrangement which I still don't get, and that the VC board members/observers are presumably on the profit side, but that still doesn't answer the implied question!
Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger
#55Makes some sense. It would be funny if they agreed to the merger and then mass resigned to join Microsoft also. And then repeat with quora merger and another mass exodus. Or they could just outsource keeping the lights on to a consulting company like ibm or Accenture or oracle. Unfortunately there won’t be a happy ending. Just like there was no happy ending with Java.
Never been happier to be wrong. Altman basically unionized the openai labor force and the investors. He contained the board. Instead of scattering the board to 3 corners of the planet, it will be further contained by adding 6 board members including Sam and microsoft and hopefully brockman. Order will have been restored. And they lived happily ever after !