Damn, I thought the AI became sentient and fired the CEO, some Ultron s***

OpenAI's board approached Dario Amodei, the CEO of its top rival Anthropic, about a potential merger after Sam got fired.

"OpenAI’s board of directors approached Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of rival large-language model developer Anthropic, about a potential merger of the two companies, said a person with direct knowledge. The approach came after OpenAI’s board had fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday and was part of an effort by OpenAI to persuade Amodei to replace Altman as CEO, the person said.

"It’s not clear whether the merger proposal led to any serious discussion. Amodei quickly turned down the CEO offer due to his position at Anthropic. The 2-year-old startup, which sells Claude, a chatbot that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is in fierce competition with OpenAI to recruit researchers and win customers."

theinformation.com/articles/openai-approached-anthropic-about-merger

OpenAI some dumbasses. Basically just sunk themselves

What are you stupid or just thought this was funny?

Microsoft was like Kanye on Alex Jones when they heard the Open AI CEOs got fired for wanting to monetize the software more.

They were like "I like anti consumerism. I looooove anti consumerism"

I get the feeling they want to backtrack the ChatGPT influence because they see how useful it has been. So before it gets any better, they want to find out a way to make money off of it to make up for all the money they've left on the table the last 2 years.

Which makes me uneasy because when s*** becomes only about money, the quality of the product takes an inevitable hit.

Relax bro it’s just a Internet forum

I can't see Microsoft not acquiring all of OpenAI in the next few days or so just to get this s***show over with

UPDATE:

OpenAI's new CEO, Emmett Shear, who was appointed yesterday, is in talks to resign, per Bloomberg.

"Even CEO Shear has been left in the dark, according to people familiar with the matter. He has told people close to OpenAI that he doesn’t plan to stick around if the board can’t clearly communicate to him its reasoning for Altman’s sudden firing."

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/altman-openai-board-open-talks-to-negotiate-his-possible-return

Still seems like the board is holding onto information that they don't want to release to the public. Potentially real reasons worth getting rid of Sam for that they can't share publically

"In the weeks leading up to his firing as OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman had a conflict with artificial intelligence researcher Helen Toner, one of the directors on the non-profit board that governs the company, according to a person familiar with the situation. Altman tried to get Toner off the board and was engaging other board members in that effort, according to the person."

theinformation.com/articles/altman-argued-with-openai-board-member-toner-before-ouster

Greg Brockman reveals ChatGPT Voice for free users amid chaos

MS making up for dropping the ball on mobile.

Really hope OpenAi’s API doesn’t go haywire, I have too many of my clients chat bots relying on it

let me find out this was all over some p****

lmao

Sam Altman is returning as CEO of OpenAI with a new board

Credentials of the new board:

Bret Taylor: a former co-CEO of Salesforce.com Inc. and director at Twitter before it was acquired by Elon Musk

Larry Summers: former U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Barack Obama

Adam D’Angelo: the co-founder and CEO of Quora Inc and existing board member

Greg Brockman is also returning as President and Chairman of OpenAI

Helen Toner published an article criticizing Sam and how OpenAI was being used. Sam took offense to it and reprimanded her.

There's been tension for a while.

Tension between Sam and the board got worse after two key events:

1. Sam was looking to raise tens of billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to create an AI chip startup to compete with processors made by Nvidia.

2. Sam was also courting SoftBank Group Corp. chairman Masayoshi Son for a multibillion-dollar investment in a new business to make AI-oriented hardware in partnership with former Apple designer Jony Ive.

Some things are coming to the light.

Helen Toner was one of the key figures responsible for getting Sam out of here.

Imagine being on the board of a billion dollar company and saying "mission accomplished if the company collapses".

Perfect example of the importance of structuring a company properly and choosing the right people.

OpenAI should start moving more like a startup rather than a nonprofit after this s***show.

Thank you @Silas for all the updates. I like to see the positive in this. Without this crisis of faith, OpenAI would have never realized that they were building something on a foundation that is too flawed to support the whole. In a way, all of this had to happen in order to make everyone get on the same page and realize what it takes for the company to reach its goal.

But, I can't help but feel for those who staged the coup. I think ideologically I'm on their side. They are making a great argument, should OpenAI lead the AI revolution as a for-profit company or as a non-profit research institution? The scientist in me says the latter and that's why Sam needed to go, so that OpenAI can be an open, public safe space for anyone that wants to study AI and everything that it discovered should be free and accessible to anyone, not just being relegated as just another CRO for Microsoft. But, they got outmaneuvered in their argument because they could not make a convincing point for why this needed to happen, neither to their own employees nor in the forum of public opinion. Feel like there is a lesson to be learned here, should we take the position that is smarter or the position that is more popular? Only time will tell.