Ilya will literally have a blank check from almost all the VC's in the industry.
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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
#62How good or bad is this for OpenAI?
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#63seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?
"Get next major feature to release and you can go as a friend" might have been part of an earlier agreement.
Sounds like a threat.
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#65Altman's tweet ( https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 ) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, and Ilya disagreed and "chose" to depart. Very interesting framing.
Nah. It’s same platitudes that’s always said when a someone high profile is fired.
> Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation ...
> Jakub is also easily one of the greatest minds of our generation ...
Phew, I was worried he'd be irreplaceable or something. Hopefully they've already standardized the comp package.
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#66Ilya will literally have a blank check from almost all the VC's in the industry.
Most of the VCs have already spent their money in the last couple of years. So he may have a blank check but not nearly enough to build an OpenAI competitor. Would love to see him at IBM with full use of their quantum systems.
> Would love to see him at IBM with full use of their quantum systems.
I’m picturing a Wild Wild West-style mad scientist, creating a steampunk army from old spare parts from Big Blue and rising up to challenge the cyber people.
Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
#67And just like that, a drawbridge across OAI's moat.
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#68How good or bad is this for OpenAI?
A few years ago? Probably catastrophic, he was Chief Scientist after all.
Now? Probably not too much, they have enough investment, and additionally talented people wanting to join. I mean, Andrej Karpathy also joined and left OpenAI twice and it didn't impact operations much.
I think OpenAI is now where Google was at or just before its IPO, a few key players leaving isn't going to impact them as much as it would have in its earlier founding days, and there is plenty of talent who are ready to jump in to fill the shoes of anyone who leaves.
Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
#69Altman's tweet ( https://x.com/sama/status/1790518031640347056?s=46 ) makes it seem as if he wanted to stay, and Ilya disagreed and "chose" to depart. Very interesting framing.
Since it's all in proper casing I'm going to assume he wrote it with chatgpt.
He used “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation” for two different people in the same message. 100% ai generated
Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
#70Nvidia should snatch him.