What a f***ing rollercoaster sheesh

sam altman more like scam altcoin

Oh it's over

Unsure how I feel about this overall. Clearly the nonprofit failed to do what it was set up to do. I prefer openai existing and am glad they weren't eaten by microsoft (still feel like that never would have panned out) but clearly there are some underlying issues with the company's structure and leadership here

I think in principle the board was right (I mean they set it up that way for a reason) but this seems like definitely the wrong time to take action

i know it smells crazy in there

reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22

Could be a game changer

The messy way that all this has unfolded in the public eye does not inspire confidence

Timeline on what could have happened which led to Sam getting fired

Nov 2 -> Sam was in the room, when the team demonstrated the next big improvement. 3 times before in OpenAIs history, most recently with GPT-4, they’d pushed back the veil of ignorance and pushed forward the frontier of discovery. As he watched the latest advance, he was already planning for the next moves: the funds that would have to be raised, the resources that would have to planned for

Nov 4 - Ilya was unsettled. They’d reached a threshold of autonomy that was concerning, while the alignment team was still just adding capability instead of emotion, actual love for humanity. They needed more time to figure out the research pathway instead of hurrying to deploy product.

Nov 6 - OpenAI dev day goes well. Lots of kudos. They release the announced products over the next several days

After dev day, Greg and Sam are in full on fund raising mode. They’re targeting 90 billion valuation, a 3x lift from 30 billion. OpenAI recruiters are already calling Google employees with 10-20 mil 4 year packages telling them if they join now they’ll make it in before the valuation increase.

Nov 9 > Greg meets Emanuel Macron for a photo op, afterwards take investor meetings in Paris. OpenAI is now at the sovereign wealth fund, European family money sized investment

Nov 13 > in an interview with the Financial Times in London, Sam confirms for the first time that work has begun on GPT5 and that he’s fundraising.

Nov 14 > OpenAI pauses ChatGPT subscriptions, as they’re totally out of capacity for inference. Usage has spiked post dev day.

Nov 16 > APEC CEO summit, Sam confirms the Nov 4 next step up discovery

By this point Ilya is pissed and scared. The fundraising tour has caught him by surprise. The usage numbers have spiked and now they don’t have enough servers for the research team, meaning they have to fundraise again to support research. Events are starting to move beyond him.

Nov 17 10 am > board meeting starts. Ilya produces 2 23 year old staff engineers (rumor) to describe progress and dangers to the board. Turns into a battle when he says they shouldn’t be fundraising and shouldn’t be expanding and that Sam was out on tour without board agreement.

Sam points out that as the CEO he has to stay ahead of the team and manage news flow in advance of the team’s needs. “We’re going to need more money for more data centers”

Ilya has a fit. Things come to a head. A vote is taken. Sam is out. The board demotes Greg, who is not at the meeting as Sam is authorized to cast his vote.

Source: (OP gives proof of certain events later in the thread):

Page 13 spot for sale

Hollywood warned us. When will we heed those warnings?

what a whole bunch of nothing

Buckle up.

OpenAI formalizes Sam Altman's return, gives Microsoft non-voting board seat

Details:

Under the deal, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will be OpenAI chairman, joined initially on the board by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo.

• Co-founder Ilya Sutskever will exit the board and his future with the company remains uncertain. Sutskever voted to oust Altman before changing direction and helping push for his return.

• "I love and respect Ilya, I think he's a guiding light of the field and a gem of a human being," Altman said in a memo, seen by Axios. "I harbor zero ill will towards him. While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI."

axios.com/2023/11/30/openai-sam-altman-return-new-board-chatgpt

Greg Brockman is back as President as well

openai.com/blog/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board

I think she bullshittin sam been in the valley for years

time.com/6342827/ceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman

I did not expect OpenAI HQ to look like that but that's so interesting. The team surrounds itself with the things they draw inspiration from: nature, inviting spaces and lots and lots of books everywhere. I also love how the art and structure of their website resembles the their office space so much. I feel like designing websites as a metaphors of who is running them and where they are located has become a lost art short of some like IKEA, Apple Store, The Met, etc.