A look at OpenAI's complicated relationship with Microsoft, which does not have a seat on the OpenAI board due to OpenAI's origins as a non-profit organization
but the leading theory about the drama at OpenAI tells a different story Benson Mawira / Cryptopolitan : OpenAI's Mission: Balancing Profit and Ethical AI Development Rohan Goswami / CNBC : OpenAI's unique corporate structure left Sam Altman vulnerable. Now he's out Ina Fried / Axios : Source: Microsoft learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was published The Official Microsoft Blog : Satya Nadella says Microsoft has a “long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything” it needs and remains “committed” to their partnership Forbes : Sources: key OpenAI investors, like Vinod Khosla and Reid Hoffman, who previously sat on its board of directors, didn't get advanced notice of Altman's firing Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The reason OpenAI is impressive is that they did what Google could not. Google researchers invented the technology but got mired in AI ethics debates and internal politics so didn't ship anything meaningful to the public. Sam Altman took the same research and type of researchers then shipped world changing products. … X: Alyson Shontell / @ajs : I would not put anything past a “furious” blindsided Satya who has sunk many billions into this and has ~49% stake. Meanwhile, Larry Page and Sundar are somewhere popping champagne Chris Bakke / @chrisjbakke : Satya Nadella learning from his lawyers that despite investing $13B into OpenAI, they have zero information rights or say in the day-to-day management, and will continue to get their information on X like the rest of us [image]