Discussion

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  google offered ilya sutskever $6 million a year to stay at google instead of leaving to found openai, which he said was a “staggering amount of money” at the time (and i would agree with that) now sutskever is worth multiple billions on paper due to OAI equity

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  now OpenAI scoring some points with sutskever, who says he wasnt confident they vetted all the points about sam's management

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Ilya Sutskever and the rest of the OpenAI board briefly fired Sam Altman as CEO in 2023. “This kind of environment, where the executives [don't] exactly have the correct information, makes the environment not conducive to attaining any difficult, grand goal,” such as …

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  sutskever does not seem like a witness that OpenAI side loves (Musk side is questioning him now) notes that the superalignment team was dissolved and that safety was was “the most important work for the long term” musk counsel wants to establish OAI is not serious about safety

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  ilya called his involvement in firing altman a “hail mary” b/c he feared the destruction of the company

• @rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x

  i've been eagle-eyed for openai founder stake details in the musk/altman trial, which have long been a mystery. today we learned that @ilyasut's stake is worth about $7B, up from $5B last november. (last week we learned @gdb's stake is worth about $30B. https://www.bloomberg.com/…

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  🚨BREAKING: Ilya just confirmed under oath what he saw: Sam lying. And he confirmed that he thought it was appropriate to fire Altman for it. And that he had been concerned for about Sam for a long time. 100% confirming what I had been saying since the week of the firing.

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever takes the stand in a light blue shirt, with an intense, unblinking gaze. “We discussed lots of outlandish ideas very often,” he says, recalling his conversations with Elon Musk at OpenAI in its early days.

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Satya Nadella says he never demanded OpenAI to reinstate Sam Altman when he was briefly fired in 2023. The board's explanation that Altman was “not candid” wasn't sufficient, says Nadella, so he sought “clarity from the OpenAI board.” And he was “very worried that the…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  @jhenryphoto good nadella burn in an internal email: “I dont want [microsoft] to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft” re: he wanted to make sure that MSFT was actually getting OpenAI's intellectual property and not getting left in the dust

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Nadella says Musk didn't contact him when Microsoft made its investments in OpenAI. Nadella says they have each other's phone numbers.

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  lol Nadella was calling all the board members and most left him on the proverbial read got through to D'Angelo and he was like “what is, uh, going on”

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  MSFT exec says MSFT has “recognized $9 billion in revenue” throughout the total life of their partnership with openAI. that is a figure that comes from their 20 percent revenue share. and that's after, i think, accounting for their 13b investment and Azure cloud $$$ expenses

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Nadella, who was yanked out of a meeting when Altman was fired in 2023: “I was pretty surprised to say the least. b/c there was no reach out to me from the board, which i thought would be a pretty obvious thing to do.” customers started beating down his door, too

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  really good nadella line re: OpenAI intellectual property: “Right now we are a very think layer on top of nvidia and all the IP is with OpenAI.” “If we are going to spend this kind of money and not have control of destiny, it makes no sense.”

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Asked whether OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary breached its nonprofit mission, Nadella says: “the nonprofit approved the creation of the for-profit entity, so they could continue to pursue the mission.” He adds: “If the pie became larger, the nonprofit would benefit as …

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes the stand in a black suit and sky blue tie. Since 2019, Microsoft has made investments in OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary and provided supercomputers for AI model training, in return for a license to use OpenAI's technology in developi…

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview “I'm very proud of the fact that we took the risk when no one else was willing to sponsor this fledgling lab,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, referring to OpenAI, and “start all the innovation that the industry has today.”

• @michelletomkim Michelle Kim on x

  @techreview Satya Nadella says when he met Elon Musk in 2015, he knew that Elon was concerned about AI safety and didn't want “AI being cornered by one company.”

• @lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky

  updates here: www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/m... we listen so you don't have to...  [embedded post]