Discussion

• @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/…

• @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

  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

• @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

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  Ilya Sutskever explaining why OpenAI has a for-profit, under oath in a federal court: “if there's no funding, there's no big computer.” in the running for quote of the year

• @ceodonovan Caroline O'Donovan on x

  Sutskever is explaining why OpenAI had to evolve. “If there is no funding, there is no big computer. You don't need the biggest computer, but you need a big enough computer. If you don't have a big enough computer, it was not going to work.”

• @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.

• @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.