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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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[–] notllmchatbot@alien.top 2 points 2 years ago (31 children)

Can't be a good thing for OpenAI. Even if Sam Altman doesn't start by taking half the company with him for this research team, I don't see why Microsoft should continue placing OpenAI on a pedestal when they can continue the work in house.

[–] f10101@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Yeah, they'll keep OpenAI on life support for a few months until the exfiltrated staff have built MSGPT5, at which point Microsoft will just cut them off.

[–] blahblahwhateveryeet@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (12 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

[–] _nigelburke_@alien.top 1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay then

name one great Microsoft product

[–] visarga@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

VSCode with Copilot

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