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Satya Nadella's Statement on OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312355
and for completeness I suppose (though at the moment they're #1 and #2):
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611
Greg Brockman quits OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312704
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the rumors? In this case I think nothing is out of bound, including Skynet in the building.
They related to his personal and familial life and are about as bad as it gets, well apart from murder and torture or something, but fairly close.
Microsoft invested $10b and owns 49% of OpenAi. Yet they don’t have a board seat? Thats genuinely insane, and seems like a huge issue.
They invested in the for-profit, not the non-profit. The non-profit controls the for-profit.
> Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation. Well this probably disproves the theory that it was a power grab by Microsoft. It didn’t make too much sense anyway since they already have access to tech behind GPT and Microsoft doesn’t necessarily need the clou…
Greg Brockman has also left: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
Feels like the kind of situation where the two are just going to end up forming a new company that eventually surpasses OpenAI.
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Feels like the kind of situation where the two are just going to end up forming a new company that eventually surpasses OpenAI.
What would they bring to the table? It doesn't seem like Greg Brockman brings more than Ilya, and what would sam do?
Microsoft invested $10b and owns 49% of OpenAi. Yet they don’t have a board seat? Thats genuinely insane, and seems like a huge issue.
They invested in the for-profit, not the non-profit. The non-profit controls the for-profit.
They 100% have leverage to exert influence on both, it’s just bad PR if word gets out.
> Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation. Well this probably disproves the theory that it was a power grab by Microsoft. It didn’t make too much sense anyway since they already have access to tech behind GPT and Microsoft doesn’t necessarily need the clou…
Maybe almost had to since it was during market hours.
Greg Brockman has also left: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
What's with the lowercase? I think it's cute if someone is being deliberately low-effort, or trying to present that way, but IMO it's cringe to use it for consequential official statements like this.