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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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[–] new_name_who_dis_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Neither Sam or Greg have ML background so idk why they are being hired for an essentially chief scientist role in this new lab. Altman basically has the skillset of a CEO, he's good at attracting talent, marketing himself and his company, and raising money. Not the skillset of a research lead. They'll probably stay just long enough to market it a bit and then move onto the next thing.

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

I totally agree with you. It was done to stop the sliding share price of Microsoft. Which is why it was a smart move as it accomplished that.

The average person is completely clueless. I have been watching CNBC this morning and it is hard to watch because I keep getting into laughing fits.

[–] Appropriate_Ant_4629@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Altman basically has the skillset of a CEO, he's good at attracting talent

That's exactly what Microsoft wants.

Like when Microsoft attracted all the talent out of their competitor Borland in the 1990s

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

I don’t think you realize Sam is literally the CEO of this new company, it’s not just some small Microsoft’s department, this is effectively a new company owned by Microsoft just like deepmind has its own CEO but is also technically owned by google.

The GPT-4 Lead has already quit OpenAI to join Sam and Greg, and Greg has experience himself being listed as lead of infrastructure team on the GPT-4 paper, actually Greg Brockman has more significant main contributions on the official GPT-4 paper than Ilya does.

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

Microsoft is an enormous company. This "AI research" organization will likely function as its own independent company owned by Microsoft.

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

That's exactly it. The important machine learning researchers are still there. The people that have left are simply the talkers that like to put themselves into the spotlight.