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Could someone kindly give me a rundown on the latest with Sam Altman, OpenAI, and now Microsoft? It's all a bit whirlwind for me! (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by nunziopresta@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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[–] Healthy-Quarter5388@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's still developing... But here's the gist.

- Sam got fired and Greg got demoted by the board

- Greg quit

- Mira the CTO named by the board as the interim CEO

- Public outrage

- Everyone assumed it was Ilya behind this, being a board member (and cofounder) himself and in the camp of precaution > commercialisation

- A bunch of heart emoji tweets from OpenAI employees to show support for Sam and Greg, including Mira

- It was reported Satya from Microsoft was pissed too, and is mediating the return of Sam

- Sam was invited back to the OpenAI office to "negotiate"

- The negotiation didn't go well, the board appointed Emmett Shear, ex-Twitch cofounder and CEO, as the new interim CEO (replacing Mira)

- Satya announces Sam, Greg and some OpenAI employees joining Microsoft

- Ilya tweets an apology, the wording suggests he was only a participant, not the orchestrator of this shitshow, Sam tweets heart emojis back

- Everyone now speculates it wasn't Ilya who started the coup, but perhaps Adam, the board member, and CEO of Quora who has a conflict of interest (he's building Poe, a competitor to ChatGPT)

- 550 out of 700 OpenAI employees signed a letter demanding the resignation of the OpenAI board, notably Ilya also signed the letter (so he's demanding his own resignation)

I'm sure in a few hours/days there will be more drama/updates.

[–] Shanrunt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Can you update this as it unfolds. I appreciate the TL:DR!

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