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[N] Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will join Microsoft to lead new advanced AI research team (alien.top)

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Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/19/a-statement-from-microsoft-chairman-and-ceo-satya-nadella/

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI’s new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

News article covering the situation: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968829/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai

Altman’s Microsoft hiring comes just hours after negotiations with OpenAI’s board failed to bring him back as OpenAI CEO. Instead, former Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear has been named as interim CEO.

Altman had been negotiating to return as OpenAI CEO, but OpenAI’s four-person board refused to step down and let him return.

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[–] TheIdesOfMay@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Especially if Altman, with literally zero dev experience, manages to somehow replicate half of GPT's algorithms somehow, with his... what... 3 devs now?

much of AI research is back-of-a-napkin ideas tested on room-sized computers. I wouldn't discount those few engineers joining MSFT: they'll have at least a general knowledge of the best techniques, and now even more even more compute to test them on. Also, Sama is a talent magnet and I have no doubts they'll build a team on par with OpenAIs.

[–] new_name_who_dis_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol I always wanted to join OpenAI to work under Sutskevar. When Altman joined in 2019, my first thought was why is the YC guy running arguably the most important AI lab in the world.

He's probably a talent magnet, but he's not a talent magnet for ML researchers. Probably for tech people yes but more of the startup engineer types who are proud of not going to school. Not the academic researcher types who spent 10 years at university doing PhDs and PostDocs in ML.

[–] blahblahwhateveryeet@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's not forget that Altman was reddit's CEO for 8 days....

[–] visarga@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That gives him perpetual license to train AI models on the reddit corpus.

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