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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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[–] 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