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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#71
Excellent news. I’ve been worried that Sam moving to Microsoft would stall out possible future engineering efforts like GPT-5 in IP court.

As an example of how much faster GPT-4 has made my workflow was the outage this evening — I tried Anthropic, openchat, Bard, and a few others and they were between not useful and worse than just looking at forums and discord it’s 2022.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#72
I'm worried about this initial board.

Bret Taylor (Salesforce) was trying to poach OpenAI employees publicly literally yesterday.

Adam D'Angelo orchestrated the coup, because he doesn't want OpenAI GPTs market to compete with his Poe market.

Larry Summers. Larry f**kin' Summers?!

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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post #33

Satya on twitter: We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the…

microsoft is going to need 2-3 seats on that board

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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post #41

> We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. > We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this. 1- So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults? 2- Now what happens to Microsoft's role in all of thi…

Microsoft said they are OK with Sam returning to openAI. There are probbaly legal reasons why they prefer things to go back as it were (Thank you for calling Twitter Twitter)

The website is twitter.com. Why call it something else?

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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post #14

Once again the source is directly from Twitter / X and the news was announced from there. Dispelling the complete nonsense that the platform is 'dying'.

FWIW I've just read the tweet on Nitter, haven't had a Twitter account in more than 2 years.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#78

Assuming they weren’t LARPing, that Reddit account claiming to have been in the room when this was all going down must be nervous. They wrote all kinds of nasty things about Sam, and I’m assuming the signatures on the “bring him back” letter would narrow down potential suspects considerably. Edit: For those who may have missed it in previous threads, see https://old.reddit.com/user/Anxious_Bandicoot126

Link? Not sure which account you are referring to

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#79

> We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. > We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this. 1- So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults? 2- Now what happens to Microsoft's role in all of thi…

> So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults?

Altman was trying to remove one of the board members before he was forced out. Looks like he got his way in the end, but I'm going to call Altman the primary instigator because of that.

His side was also the "we'll nuke the company unless you resign" side.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

#80
Emmett Shear on Twitter:

I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m glad to have been a part of the solution.

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598

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