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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)

submitted 11 months ago by Civil_Collection7267@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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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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[–] blahblahwhateveryeet@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Nobody's gonna use knockoff microsoft bing bong gpt "5" (or "bard" for that matter) - windows products have always been terribly unmarketable and Microsoft fails heavily in that regard

I mean

Do you use Bing's AI thing

OpenAI has the stage here, because they've got the product everybody's habituated to using

[–] f10101@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ChatGPT only exists because MS permit it. It's not financially viable otherwise.

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

um what in the holy hell duck sauce are you talking about

https://www.maginative.com/article/openais-revenue-skyrockets-to-1-3-billion-annual-rate/

do you want some sprinkles with that

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

enterprise already prefers to use gpt via azure. when ms replaces that with something else, as long as there’s feature parity nobody will care.

[–] toomuchtodotoday@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft has an exclusive license to all OpenAI models. They also own the compute hardware. OpenAI cannot afford to train and operate without Microsoft, and there will be no other suitor because OpenAI is already tied to Microsoft with model licensing.

Customers are already migrating to Azure GPT API vs OpenAI.

[–] sa7ouri@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting! Why is Ilya’s name on the list? Didn’t he orchestrate this whole thing?

[–] Appropriate_Ant_4629@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

EDIT: 505 of OpenAIs 700 employees will be leaving for Sam's Microsoft team if the board does not resign. https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726598360277356775

unless .. the board ... appoints ... Will Hurd

This guy ?!? - https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/09/texas-will-hurd-2024-presidential-race/

Will Hurd, announced Monday he was suspending his longshot 2024 presidential campaign and endorsing Nikki Haley. ... former CIA officer a

[–] f10101@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He's a former OpenAI board member

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

"ChatGPT" without performant models is just a brand name and a UX workflow. If Microsoft buys the brand name (or absorbs OpenAI's IP) then you'll use ChatGPT and not care that bing bong gpt 5 bard is under the hood... or it will suck and you'll find a new brand that's better.

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

It is way too early to say nobody will switch off Chat GPT.

And all of the points you made are managerial points, which they just brought the management team from OAI in.

Especially with all this being in the news, many people believe that the company face is the driving force between product quality, and now that face is in Microsoft

[–] _nigelburke_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's probably a bit of a stretch to say Microsoft products have always been unmarketable given they're one of the largest software companies in history

[–] blahblahwhateveryeet@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay then

name one great Microsoft product

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

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