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Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced

Financial Times Cristina Criddle

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  • @thedataroom @thedataroom on x
    @FT Good people are rightfully sick and tired of the deceit and abuses perpetrated by the bad actors at OpenAI Staff members with a conscience and ethics are increasingly waking up and realizing they can't be associated with a corrupted company, and that staying there too long
  • @thedataroom @thedataroom on x
    More rats abandoning a sinking ship of “Open"AI Most good people already left a long time ago and/or were forced out, like Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, John Schulman, etc Then there's that other one... Sam Altman and the worst people at OpenAI perfidiously killing gpt4o, after
  • r/OpenAI r on reddit
    OpenAI's ChatGPT push triggers senior staff exits
  • r/ChatGPT r on reddit
    OpenAI's ChatGPT push triggers senior staff exits
  • @pawlega @pawlega on x
    Everyone's obsessing over whether OpenAI has the best model,". “That's the wrong question. They're converting technical leadership into platform lock-in. The moat has shifted from research to user behaviour, and that's a much stickier advantage.” https://www.ft.com/...
  • @polynoamial Noam Brown on x
    Every ~6 months I hear people claim @OpenAI isn't doing real research and is just incrementally improving ChatGPT. I even heard it right before 🍓/o1. In my opinion @OpenAI is the best frontier lab to do research at today. Building an AI research intern in 2026 is not hype.
  • @markchen90 Mark Chen on x
    How does OpenAI balance long-term research bets with product-forward research fundamentals? I've been getting this question a lot lately, usually framed as a suggestion that Jakub (@merettm) and I are pushing an increasingly product-focused agenda. That characterization is
  • @swyx @swyx on x
    anyone that believes openai has given up on fundamental research and is simply productmaxxing has not internalized this chart my sweet summer child; Sora was like a 5 person side project. Deep research. Even initially Codex was 2 side projects (scaled up now ofc). we always [imag…