Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

TechCrunch 2023-11-20 Manish Singh

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@benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads
It's a curious thing that the people who are most worried that it might be easy to create a machine that can reason and plan seem to be rather bad at reasoning and planning.
@ianbetteridge.com Ian Betteridge on bluesky
Well who didn't see that coming? — https://www.theverge.com/...
@fxshaw.com Frank X. Shaw on bluesky
been a day [embedded post]
@paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak on bluesky
This shit just keeps getting weirder. [embedded post]
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
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.…
@sama Sam Altman on x
the mission continues
@gdb Greg Brockman on x
We are going to build something new & it will be incredible. Initial leadership (more soon): @merettm @sidorszymon @aleks_madry @sama @gdb The mission continues.
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
@sama I'm super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We've learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang St…
@miramurati Mira Murati on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people
@aviralbhat Aviral Bhatnagar on x
You now understand why Satya Nadella is one of the greatest tech CEOs of this generation Kept Altman in the fold, kept the transition as neat as possible, managed the chaos and the wild board decision making, didn't destroy OpenAI What a boss move
@levie Aaron Levie on x
Incredible execution by Satya in one of the most dynamic situations in tech history.
@emollick Ethan Mollick on x
The organizations who own the compute haven't changed. The amount of compute hasn't changed. The amount of compute devoted to training models is likely not to change Which models are being trained is changing some, but I am not sure the broad sweep of AI is that altered for now.
@buccocapital BuccoCapital Guy on x
Satya Nadella making sure Sam Altman doesn't missing a single hour of work [video]
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@satyanadella Now they will have to use Teams!
@paularambles @paularambles on x
everyone who said they're joining sam's next thing realizing they now have to apply to microsoft
@yongfook Jon Yongfook on x
Every startup who built a wrapper around ChatGPT right now. [image]
@khoomeik Rohan Pandey on x
bro acquired openai without having to pay a penny
@buccocapital BuccoCapital Guy on x
If you are the Board of a non-profit who wants to create safe AI... Driving your ex-CEO and most of your talent into the arms of the most powerful, profit-seeking, ruthless tech company in the history of the world is...maybe not good for your goals
@jasonkwon Jason Kwon on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people
@ktbenner Katie Benner on x
.@eshear's 3-part plan for the next 30 days includes hiring an independent investigator to look into “the entire process” that got OpenAI to this point and “generate a full report” (that i hope will be shared with the public)
@michaelxbloch Michael Bloch on x
This is AIs equivalent of the Traitorous Eight leaving Shockley to found Fairchild Semiconductor. It will be seen as a pivotal moment in AI's history that ushered in a new, better world for us all.
@robertgaal Robert Gaal on x
Hello Sam! My name is Bob and I'm part of the HR team here at Microsoft. Welcome to your new #MicrosoftLife! Please be aware that corporate social media guidelines dictate every tweet end with #LoveMyMSFTFamily. Thank you, and happy Fri-yay!
@stevemoser Steve Moser on x
Sam Altman was fired by the board at OpenAI only to be caught by Satya's safety net at Microsoft. Name a more interesting corporate transition since the days of Apple buying NeXT and making Steve Jobs interim CEO. [image]
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
one thing I think many have missed is that Sam Altman has a CEO title inside Microsoft. That's a title that Microsoft typically uses for the leaders of big divisions (Microsoft Gaming) or acquired companies like LinkedIn and GitHub. That signals to me that Microsoft is treating..…
@myprasanna Prasanna S on x
Remember that Microsoft has source code sharing with OpenAI . So only way out for fastest e/Acc
@bradlightcap Brad Lightcap on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people
@petergyang Peter Yang on x
Satya will never forgive the OpenAI board for making him miss the Australia vs India cricket match
@ylecun Yann LeCun on x
There is at least one industry research lab where the leadership believes that (super)human-level AI: - is attainable - is a scientific research question, not just a question of more compute and more data. - is not “just around the corner”. It will take a while. - is not an...
@noahpinion Noah Smith on x
The OpenAI board are now going to have to spend the rest of their careers at the top of Satya Nadella's shit list...
@mickeyxfriedman Mickey Friedman on x
The Great Resignation [image]
@krzyzanowskim Marcin Krzyzanowski on x
not that significant OpenAI employees ready to the Microsoft Interview process that takes 3-6 months if not ghosted? 😂😂 only to be rejected because internal hire is a better fit
@ctjlewis Lewis on x
from OpenAI's own researchers. [image]
@dylan522p Dylan Patel on x
The 10,000 IQ conspiracy is this is the threat to have to OpenAI board resign and put Sam and crew back in power but with the proper corporate governance or else there is more acceleration than they feared.
@zengjiajun_eth @zengjiajun_eth on x
Maybe we will soon realize that OpenAI over hired.
@divestech Dan Ives on x
The circus show 4 Person Board at OpenAI was at the kids poker table and thought they won until Nadella and Microsoft took this all over in a poker move for the ages with the Valley and Wall Street watching nervously Sunday night. MSFT now in a stronger AI position before. 🍿🍿🔥
@tprstly Theo on x
Notice that Satya says “Microsoft stays committed to OpenAI” meaning “we'll continue to provide them with Azure services until they're no longer useful to us.”
@nathanlands Nathan Lands on x
@SteveMills I stopped adding names for now lol, the list is getting insanely long and hard to check how many are at OpenAI. It looks like well over 100 people. Including CTO, COO, head of GPT-4/5 and many other key people.
@jordanschnyc Jordan Schneider on x
so all ilya did was steal billions from openai employees and hand it to MSFT shareholders
@nathanlands Nathan Lands on x
OpenAI mass exodus underway:
@countdraghula @countdraghula on x
Probably the last time a not-for-profit structure is set up around a product that a lot of people want to profit trillions from It pains me to say it but only government can develop something in the way OpenAI wanted to
@bendifrancesco Ben DiFrancesco on x
Behind the friendly, nerdy veneer, Satya Nadella must be a stone cold killer. No other way you get a company with a culture like Microsoft's turned around the way he did. This saga with OpenAI is another glimpse at that.
@random_walker Arvind Narayanan on x
I'm guessing that people at OpenAI who aren't part of this religion will want to jump ship now. If that happens, there will be two Anthropics. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@itsjoeco Joe Colangelo on x
If you all were scared about Sam Altman/OpenAI doing regulatory capture to prevent new entrants in the AI space, I have some bad news for you wrt Microsoft.
@jyarow Jay Yarow on x
I am sure they will figure out a way to make money from all this, but for now, it sure seems like the VCs are gonna be the big losers. OpenAI is worth less in the short term and Sam Altman has no need for venture dollars at Microsoft.
@tobyordoxford Toby Ord on x
Here are the 423 words of OpenAI's charter. Hard to have a sensible opinion on the matter without reading them and asking yourself whether the current leadership was fulfilling them. https://openai.com/charter
@tobyordoxford Toby Ord on x
Astute analysis by @gruber — if anything, it is surprising it took this long for the mismatch of words and deeds to come to a head: [image]
@derivatives_ape Derivatives Monke on x
Secondary market for OpenAI shares is quickly going to zero. People are trying to exit at an extremely fast pace, current trading price is at $20b valuation. The last round was at a $90 billion valuation, and only a week ago, shares were trading at $50 billion. This is crazy.
@alphasignalai Lior on x
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@saykay Sarah Kennedy Ellis on x
Everyone went to sleep... and then the real news, planned all along, actually happened.
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
Satya Nadella has led Microsoft to complete acquisitions and form strategic partnerships over the past 10 years that seemed impossible under the previous leadership. He's an empathetic leader who has encouraged collaboration over division. It has paid off time and time again
@birdyword Mike Bird on x
Imagine, you're a board member at a non-profit which wants to build safe AI, and you're worried about how serious your CEO is about AI risk... So you sack him and accidentally end up creating a new AI division inside a profit-maximising 2.7 trillion dollar tech company.
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
nadella went from appearing to be on the back foot all weekend to a coup de grace at midnight pacific, six and a half hours before the market opens bananas
@traskjd John-Daniel Trask on x
- “Committed” to OpenAI - A lot of confidence in themselves ("our", “our”, “we") - Extremely excited Sam & Greg are joining Microsoft - Looking forward to working with new OAI leadership Sounds like Satya is trying to stay friends with his ex, or at least part on good terms
@jordannovet Jordan Novet on x
Satya couldn't buy OpenAI but he has here what you might call a talent acquisition
@smtuffy Sean Tuffy on x
So, wait, Sam now works for Microsoft and is a client of OpenAI? lol. lmao, even.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@satyanadella @sama Wild times Satya ftw
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Note: Satya saved the “very excited” for Altman and Brockman, since they will presumably be bringing the juice of OpenAI to MSFT. There is so much between these lines, it's delicious and foretells what is to come. [image]
@remouherek Remo Uherek on x
Worst investment of my life? 😂 12 days ago I bought some OpenAI shares on the secondary market. And now they are imploding. Microsoft seizing the moment to make themselves independent from OpenAI, and building their own product. Startups are messy.
@alphasignalai Lior on x
Incredible save from Satya before the market opens. He probably just avoided $10-50 billion from being wiped out. He also just recruited two of the most influential people in AI.
@autismcapital @autismcapital on x
As we understand it, Satya pitched to Sam and Greg that it would be easier for them to just join Microsoft and use their resources to get started immediately, rather than start a newco. Sam will poach the best talent from OpenAI to their special team, get started working on GPT5.…
@peteratmsr Peter Lee on x
@sama And all of us @MSFTResearch are more dedicated than ever to doing all we can to support and contribute to your mission. ❤️
@stokel Chris Stokel-Walker on x
Well, Microsoft is now riding two horses (who are very angry at each other). Sam Altman and Greg Brockman join Microsoft
@csvoss Chelsea Sierra Voss on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
another twist. The key phrase here is “providing them the resources they need.” Microsoft has the COMPUTE.
@azeem Azeem Azhar on x
The power of a massive firm, insane compute resources and unlimited cash. Satya called his option on the OpenAI talent.
@ctjlewis Lewis on x
wake up. it's happening again [image]
@localghost Aaron Ng on x
Satya wins it seems. > OpenAI board gets torched for their failure to play ball. > Top talent all follows Sam and Greg to Microsoft, which already contractually has access to all OpenAI's “pre-AGI technology”. > Now Microsoft will develop and own all of the next models...
@dinabass Dina Bass on x
That Satya post is what we journalists call burying the lede (partnership yay, Emmett nice to meet you, BTW we're hiring Sam and Greg)
@benhylak Ben on x
did satya just aquihire openai for $0
@danbarker Dan Barker on x
OpenAI's board gave themselves the prime duty to ‘protect humanity’ from AI, but seem to have ended up inadvertently handing much control of that to Microsoft. [image]
@afinetheorem Kevin A. Bryan on x
And there you go. There's a reason Satya is often seen as the best CEO in tech. Sam and whoever he brings over now has tech and $ to do whatever they want (including the compute to do so!). How much cash must have been thrown their way to get them not to go the startup route?!
@robbie Robbie Trencheny on x
I never thought much about Satya before Friday, thought Microsoft was weak and had no choice but to work with OAI because they were behind the curve. My respect for him grew 10x on Friday and over the weekend when he started pressuring OAI. Just grew 50x with this. King shit.
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
“Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.” The biggest question now remaining is how many OpenAI colleagues follow Sam and Greg from OpenAI to Microsoft.
@joe_darko Joe Darko on x
By the way, Sam and Greg joining Microsoft is odd and I believe it's a deal in place to save Microsoft for the time being. The market would have reacted negatively on Monday. Time will tell
@iamdcinvestor @iamdcinvestor on x
trying to imagine how much money Satya threw at Altman and Brockman to make this happen he just turned this from a news event which would have hurt Microsoft to one which will pump it this morning gg
@schmrypto @schmrypto on x
Don't worry guys, the company that made Windows Vista is on top of this AI safety problem! -Schmrypto, 2 BC (Before Clippy killed us all)
@monkchips @monkchips on x
Satya Nadella. That's it. That's the tweet.
@michaelfrazis Michael Frazis on x
So @sama and @gdb at microsoft! With access to openai technologies. At perhaps the only place with more resources than they had before. Don't need to skip a beat. But what about the new CEO and board of OpenAI? They can decel, but for what aim? Their old bosses will push...
@lukebelmar Luke Belmar on x
it only made sense to invest in the company that proxy owned OpenAI [image]
@eringriffith Erin Griffith on x
the first time i have witnessed a $2.7 trillion company go fully kill bill on a close ally
@benthompson Ben Thompson on x
The most extraordinary weekend of my career
@twominutepapers @twominutepapers on x
With Sam Altman and Greg Brockman (and presumably some scientists from OpenAI) joining Microsoft, Microsoft is now a shareholder in OpenAI and gets to create its competition at the same time. Crazy times.
@amaldorai Amal Dorai on x
How did Satya Nadella recruit Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to Microsoft as W-2 employees, when they could have literally done anything they wanted? I think the answer is training data. Microsoft has access to more training data than any company in the world, far more than is...
@lizquidity @lizquidity on x
i cant believe openai board rugged the employees on the big openai share sale and just handed the keys to the kingdom to mister softee for good measure i feel kinda horrible for them tbh.
@robertmsterling Robert Sterling on x
Microsoft's CFO showing up to work Monday morning and writing off the value of their $13B OpenAI investment now that Sam Altman isn't coming back [video]
@sigfig @sigfig on x
ive never thought openai was that great but i stand corrected. i could never make an organization that manages to have four different ideological directions under three different leaders within 72 hours. it is beyond my imagination
@swiftonsecurity @swiftonsecurity on x
BASED AI GOD SATYA NADELLA DIRECTS THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
@basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x
DECELS BTFO NEVER DOUBT SATYA [image]
@warikoo Ankur Warikoo on x
A brilliant example of avoiding sunk cost fallacy. The post almost suggest that OpenAI is now sunk. And what MS + Sam + Greg will build is the new future.
@william_blake Michael P Gibson on x
Pretty amazing that the world's savviest investors & MSFT didn't see any red flags in the roasted malodorous turducken of corporate governance + non-profit structure that is OpenAI. Delaware C-Corp is one of man's greatest inventions. It will get us AI & it will get us to Mars.
@rmnth Ramnath on x
Like it's said, Altman never dies, it just moves from one body to another.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Shoes drop. @sama and @gdb to @Microsoft.
@armanddoma Armand Domalewski on x
chief of staff: Mr. President, the OpenAI counter coup has stalled—Altman and his faction have formed a government-in-exile at Microsoft... joe biden [ munching block of Kerrygold butter ]: hot damn. we do that? chief of staff: [throws up binder] I don't even fucking know, man
@yimbyland @yimbyland on x
it is done [image]
@mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x
Seems like a pretty elegant solution to an entirely inelegant situation. Microsoft effectively becomes the product arm of OpenAI (assuming all the data deals are rock solid, which they must be). Get Sam and Greg and the many others who would go elsewhere. They all get paid.
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
Also note that because OpenAI was giving out a weird form of equity to employees - Profit Participation Units - and given new leadership visibly does not want to focus on profits: those quitting OpenAI might not lose much in terms of equity. Easier for MS to recruit this way!
@fxshaw Frank X. Shaw on x
Sunday before a thanksgiving week has never been this interesting.
@kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people!!!! This is incredible to witness from so many OpenAI employees [video]
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Shoes drop. Like I noted was possible, @sama and @gdb to @Microsoft. Boom. So @satyanadella turns lemons into lemonade. ("Look forward to getting to know" the new guy part was awkward.)
@levie Aaron Levie on x
This weekend has been the craziest year in tech.
@indian_bronson @indian_bronson on x
The Microsoft Board has a chance to do the funniest thing of all time [image]
@punk6529 @punk6529 on x
OAI Board: Sam is getting too close to msft/commercialization/AGI. If we fire him, we will stop him. Exactly 1 Day Later: msft to Sam. All your data centers, including the gpt4 model weights we licensed from OAI, belong to you. Well played OAI Board. Well played.
@terrorproforma @terrorproforma on x
For the love of god, please let @sama fix Microsoft's authentication service
@0interestrates Rahul on x
guys keep it down pls. it's past sundar's bed time
@localghost Aaron Ng on x
Sam, with 0% equity in OpenAI now works for the organization that owns 49% of OpenAI.
@hnshah Hiten Shah on x
Always have a Plan B https://x.com/...
@eigenrobot @eigenrobot on x
is msft gonna put sama in charge of interfacing with openai and running the partnership because that would be hilarious [image]
@anammostarac Ana Mostarac on x
OpenAI's board right now [image]
@hh1962hh Herbert Heitmann on x
The OpenAI board has ultimately accelerated what it tried to prevent. This is likely the beginning of the end of OpenAI and its efforts to govern AI independent of commercial interests. It will urge lawmakers (unfortunately with much less knowledge) to step in and try to fix this
@shyamalanadkat Shyamal on x
OpenAI is nothing without its people
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Mission accomplished, I would say.
@calikasia Kasia Sitkiewicz on x
Sam and Greg, you are welcome to work from the GitHub office.
@andercot Andrew Côté on x
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and spend literally all your time on Twitter, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller [image]
@basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x
WE'RE SO BACK. WE NEVER LEFT. YOU CAN'T STOP THE ACCELERATION. 🚀🚀🚀
@amaldorai Amal Dorai on x
Surprised that Sam and Greg decided to join Microsoft. If they had started an independent company, they could have easily recruited >50% of the OpenAI team. I don't think their recruiting will be as easy at Microsoft.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Ok if this was a simulation, the next move to ponder is when Elon is seen skulking around @OpenAI, looking to come back home and grab the booty sitting there for the taking. My guess is that he has already lobbed a call in, given his rocky history with @sama. (Put a pin in this.)…
@sdw Sebastiaan de With on x
the lengths Microsoft goes through to switch people from Google Meet to Teams is honestly unbelievable
@asvanevik Alex Svanevik on x
CZ nailed the FTX Sam situation. Satya nailed the OpenAI Sam situation.
@florian4gamers Florian Mueller on x
Looks like the OpenAI leadership crisis has been definitively resolved. The bottom line appears to be that Microsoft's AI efforts are not going to be adversely affected to say the least. Quite a pre-Thanksgiving weekend for AI. 🧵1/2 [image]
@blader Siqi Chen on x
microsoft trades on robinhood 24/7 $msft jumped from $360 to $376 since satya announced sam and gdb is joining microsoft. that's $115 billion (or 1.4 OpenAIs) worth of market cap added in the last 60 minutes. [image]
@developerharris Harris Rothaermel on x
Microsoft spending $40+ billion on compute in 2024, now with the full talent of the best parts of OpenAI, Microsoft's existing distribution networks (and data!!!) ... 🤯
@mattgperry Matt Perry on x
Hall of fame tweet. I assume MS saw this playing out over years instead of a single weekend. Then to announce you're hiring “and colleagues” ie anyone who wants to come over. But still committed to their partnership with the smithereens. Off the Scoville scale.
@lpolovets Leo Polovets on x
I read the news that Sam Altman is joining Microsoft, and the first thing I thought about is Paul Graham's description of Sam: “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king.” So basically 5 years until he's CEO?
@lukeprog Luke Muehlhauser on x
New theory: The OpenAI Board became resentful of superforecasters' arrogance, and set out to permanently destroy their Brier scores in a single weekend.
@balajis Balaji on x
Sam, Greg, and colleagues joining Microsoft. So that'll be the shadow company. They could now recruit all the talent from OpenAI. Then launch Bing AI, or spin it out as a separate co. Then MS may cut off compute to OpenAI.
@alexmasmej Alex Masmej on x
Win win move by Satya & sama. Instead of suing OpenAI & waste time: • get sama + Greg to push AI free from that amateur board • no fundraise nor NewCo, can get back to work ASAP thanks to MSFT unlimited ressources • sama can exit later whilst MSFT guarantees themselves equity
@mayazi Maya Zehavi on x
The OpenAI drama isn't what we all think it is. It's easy to view it as a corporate soap between EA & SV but I suspect the real rationale is much more cynical & the fall out is greater MSFT revenues. Imagine Oppenheimer had to answer to the Saudi sovereign fund
@patrickjblum Patrick Blumenthal on x
the fact that Satya and team negotiated all of this likely within the last 8 hours, and took such a massive chance after getting seemingly royally fucked over by OpenAI in the last week, will go down in history. every other F500 would swear off AI forever and be forever jaded
@dstrachman Danielle Strachman on x
Infrastructure is everything
@drjimfan @drjimfan on x
This is a master 4D chess move. WOW. 1. No new corporate structure. MSFT is literally one of the oldest for-profit tech companies out there, with a mature legal structure. Whether it's good for AGI is up for debate. 2. MSFT always wants to own the GPT weights. Now the moment has.…
@balajis Balaji on x
Satya wins. Reflexes of a startup CEO. Resources of a trillion dollar company. Pulls this together in 48 hours from a cold start. Gets it signed and over the line before markets open. [image]
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
Pretty incredible. In 2018, Microsoft still had a lower market cap than Google. Now it's worth over $1 trillion more [image]
@rayminehane Ray Minehane on x
Altman at Microsoft is interesting given Microsoft do not need to pitch fantasies to VC's to get money.
@nearcyan Near on x
tomorrow is the first day ever that public investors can purchase stock in a company sam works at
@iamstan Ant Stanley on x
Satya's next board meeting is going to be interesting ... Board: “So we invested $13B into OpenAI, didn't get a board seat, and now we're about to invest how much to build a competitor to OpenAI to hedge the $13B investment we already made?”
r/technology r on reddit
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and ‘colleagues’ joins Microsoft to lead Advanced AI Research
r/neoliberal r on reddit
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
r/Futurology r on reddit
OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to join Microsoft | TechCrunch
r/OpenAI r on reddit
Sam Altman: “the mission continues”
r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
r/singularity r on reddit
From samwise, time to buckle up boys
r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
@202accepted @202accepted on x
this is what ilya saw in the basement at OpenAI [image]
@alexisohanian Alexis Ohanian on x
Classy move by Ilya — he just publicly invalidated the rest of the board's claim.
@el33th4xor Emin Gün Sirer on x
Someone who cannot foresee the consequences of his actions in 3 days is in charge of developing AI. God help us all.
@borismpower Boris Power on x
Mistakes happen. Thank you Ilya, this is inspiring.
@joeljohnson @joeljohnson on x
I deeply regret my participation in these actions. I never intended to harm Jimmy John's. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite this franchise.
@jason_pontin Jason Pontin on x
What on Earth? Who, then, was the motivating force behind this governance farce?
@tszzl Roon on x
@ilyasut ♥️
@silvermanjacob Jacob Silverman on x
This is how you tank an $80 billion startup. Why wouldn't OpenAI staff, many of them Altman loyalists, follow their former boss to Microsoft?
@jaycaspiankang Kang on x
I didn't really take AI safety concerns all that seriously until I realized the whole thing is in the hands of impulsive weird children. Please hire one adult to hang out with you!
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
I can't even. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where every techie thinks they are Player One and they are really Yertle the Turtle.
@anammostarac Ana Mostarac on x
Celebrity apology statement be like
@migueldeicaza Miguel de Icaza on x
The plot thickens. I had pinned him as the organizer. Was there another mastermind? Or just groupthink from a noob board that doomscrolls more than they think independently?
@sama Sam Altman on x
❤️❤️❤️
@farokh @farokh on x
@ilyasut “I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.” [image]
@packym Packy McCormick on x
This sucks. The drama has been fun and the board/Ilya brought this outcome on themselves, but I can see trying to do the right thing, getting swept up and thinking it'll work out the way you planned, then watching your life's work fall apart and people you were close with walk...
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
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@balajis Balaji on x
Wow. Does this mean the whole thing gets reversed, like a fire drill where everyone marches back into the building? Suppose it's theoretically possible as only ~72 hours of breakage has happened. Would need to learn if other board members also agree.
@mr_james_c @mr_james_c on x
“I came for the king. I missed.”
@koeppelmann Martin Köppelmann on x
I still have absolutely no idea what was going on internally, but one thing is very clear - OpenAI never had a governance structure remotely capable of handling issues that can affect humanity as a whole - and probably no company/small group has or will have.
@apompliano @apompliano on x
If the most entertaining outcome is the most likely, than Ilya joining Microsoft to get the band back together is all but guaranteed.
@mcbyrne @mcbyrne on x
For one day, SV became a place of hope where a member of the elite could face consequences. It's a bummer it didn't stick. Remember that Sam is just a rich dude who is liked by other rich dudes.
@loomdart @loomdart on x
ok ai is better than crypto now this is NUTS
@mattomattik @mattomattik on x
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@adamconner @adamconner on x
As they say, if you come for the king you better be prepared for said king to go to the biggest tech company that also is your main financial backer and take all your staff and end up giving him all the resources he needs to actually create AGI without you. Very famous saying.
@oliviasolon Olivia Solon on x
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more chaotic...
@danshipper Dan Shipper on x
What is going on
@mdudas Mike Dudas on x
- stage coup - “win” - hire replacement ceo aligned with you - tweet you regret coup - ?
@llsethj Seth Weintraub on x
Only good answer is that the future AI went back in time to destroy this before it got AGI
@seyitaylor @seyitaylor on x
tragic. absolutely tragic.
@mdudas Mike Dudas on x
good god stop tweeting investors, partners and employees calling 1-800-lawyers rn
@loopifyyy @loopifyyy on x
Masterclass f*up. A $80bn company destroyed in one move. Crazy to think about.
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
Originally assumed this is one of those parody accounts on Twitter (you cannot trust blue ticks any more). But it's not: and so this is very confusing. The board is 4 people, Ilya one of them. All board decisions have serious consequences and board members (should) know this.
@atabarrok Alex Tabarrok on x
Shakespearen tragedy.
@kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
sooooo when do we start getting transparency about why these decisions were made and who made them?
@nkulw Noah Kulwin on x
$86B business. Almost four Delta Airlines, or half of Disney
@blader Siqi Chen on x
the only way to reunite the company would be to join sama and gdb at microsoft.
@_fabknowledge_ @_fabknowledge_ on x
bro too late. you lost in the boardroom and as late as yesterday had a chance to put things right? I don't get how Adam is implied to be driving the boat now
@deljohnsonvc Del Johnson on x
Hahahah lol lmao! Blink twice if you're in a safe place.
@kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
Ilya speaks. But too late to fix it.
@kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x
Reveal what triggered your fear response, the public deserves to know what led to such drastic action Was there something beyond Custom GPTs giving you the heebie-jeebies
NullTX Will Izuchukwu on x
Microsoft's Move: Sam Altman Takes The Helm, Boosts World Coin $WLD With New AI Team
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Breaking: 550 of 700 employees @OpenAI tell the board to resign. [image]
@smtuffy Sean Tuffy on x
I assume the open revolt at OpenAI has a lot to do with the board flushing the billion dollars earmarked for staff down the drain?
@lex_node @lex_node on x
the same problem with OpenAI's board exists with every DAO that relies too heavily on delegation, esp. delegation to “student groups” and other random policy/governance types lacking skin in the game [image]
@jamespmcleod James McLeod on x
If only there was some well-established structure whereby workers could organize and take collective action.
@samaugustdean Sam Dean on x
The AI company is...a model of collective labor action??
@gtconway3d George Conway on x
Is that bad for a business? It seems bad
@rustybrick Barry Schwartz on x
I guess Microsoft can hire them...
@gerstenzang Sam Gerstenzang on x
Ilya is a signee!! Truly never seen anything like this.
@cpojer Christoph Nakazawa on x
After the letter, I think Sam is going to be CEO of OpenAI again within 48 hours.
@mcbyrne @mcbyrne on x
Super sad that these workers side with a theilite and not the board. SV needs to get over their obsession with founders.
@sherman4949 Alex Sherman on x
The slowest motion acquisition of a company in history
@samj Sam Johnston on x
“@Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all @OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join.”
@tlbtlbtlb Trevor Blackwell on x
Schisms are good, actually.
@parmy Parmy Olson on x
Question now is whether OpenAI's board resigns, or holds firm and watches nearly the entire company walk over to Microsoft.
@refsrc Manish Singh on x
Wow — Microsoft has extended job offers to all employees at OpenAI. [image]
@shaig Shai Goldman on x
Imagine getting 72% of your workforce to revolt
@rivertamydn @rivertamydn on x
You fools, you didn't grow headcount fast enough to make it impossible for the employees to organize
@ceciliazin Cecilia Ziniti on x
Memorandum to the board signed by both of general counsel and the chief legal and strategy officer. I can't see the board staying after this.
@mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x
Board's gotta stick to their guns and be legends imo
@kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
Ilya Sutskever among those telling the board to resign [image]
@tprstly Theo on x
At this point there definitely is no more OpenAI by the end of the year and this'll make Netflix a fortune as a docudrama.
@borismpower Boris Power on x
This all happened after midnight, during a company wide holiday. Support was always near unanimous.
@samj Sam Johnston on x
“Remarkably, the letter's signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.” https://www.wired.com/...
@mitsuhiko Armin Ronacher on x
Are we sure that the people we think are on the board are on the board? I'm so confused. https://www.wired.com/...
@kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x
Secondary sale falling through? Pivot to Microsoft RSUs
@leokelion Leo Kelion on x
Amazing to see @ilyasut has signed the letter demanding the board (which he sits on) quits and suggesting he and others may leave OpenAI to work directly for Microsoft.
@janleike Jan Leike on x
I think the OpenAI board should resign
@westcoastbill Bill Lee on x
did we really just witness a $90B startup implosion this weekend? everyone quits OAI?
@jeremywired Jeremy White on x
Well, indeed... anyhow: https://www.wired.com/... [image]
@andrewcouts Andrew Couts on x
BREAKING: All of OpenAI—including cofounder and board member Ilya Sutskever—threaten to quit and join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman's new Microsoft subsidiary. https://www.wired.com/...
@katiedrumm Katie Drummond on x
NEW: Nearly 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter threatening to quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints him: https://www.wired.com/...
@crumbler Casey Newton on threads
Bloomberg and The Information reporting Emmett Shear, the well regarded former CEO of Twitch, will take on the monumental task of leading OpenAI.
@cwarzel Charlie Warzel on threads
did not have Twitch co-founder as CEO of OpenAI on my bingo card but hey...that's also why i will be replaced by a machine in 3 years
@chancerydaily @chancerydaily on threads
this is a clown show 🤡
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads
That didn't last long. It looks like Mira Murati is out as interim CEO and Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear is the new interim CEO. I give up. I'm going to bed. 🤦🏾‍♂️
@maggy.kia.net Magdalena Donea on bluesky
To Longtermists, Singularitarians, AI “existential risk” people and the like: y'all's “leaders” are gonna kill us all from sheer ineptitude long before your “AI” ever gets a chance to do it. [embedded post]
@eshear Emmett Shear on x
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my..…
@sama Sam Altman on x
first and last time i ever wear one of these [image]
@ashleevance Ashlee Vance on x
So, here's what happened at OpenAI tonight. Mira planned to hire Sam and Greg back. She turned Team Sam over past couple of days. Idea was to force board to fire everyone, which they figured the board would not do. Board went into total silence. Found their own CEO Emmett Shear
@emilychangtv Emily Chang on x
The OpenAI board has hired Emmett Shear as CEO. He is the former CEO of Twitch. My understanding is that Sam is in shock.
@cecianasta Cecilia D'Anastasio on x
I have one word for anyone wondering why Twitch's ex-CEO Emmett Shear would be tapped to run an AI company: AutoMod. Twitch's moderation feature was on the cutting edge of AI/ML when it launched in 2016. Almost single-handedly cleaned up one of the gnarliest communities online.
@dhtoomey Dan Toomey on x
Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few seconds, I accepted. It was crazy. They literally called me and were like “who is this?” And I...
@gdb Greg Brockman on x
❤️❤️❤️
@johncoogan John Coogan on x
photo of Emmett Shear (red) and Sam Altman (yellow) from when they were in the original 2005 Y Combinator class together. [image]
@rowancheung Rowan Cheung on x
Emmett Shear, the new CEO of OpenAI on a recent podcast. [video]
@jason @jason on x
The employees at OpenAI just lost billions of dollars in secondary share sales that were about to happen at a $90b valuation — that's over. Done. I think OpenAI will lose half their employees, the 12-18 month lead, and 90% of their valuation in 2024. Just insane value...
@macaesbruno Bruno Maçães on x
So apparently OpenAI will now collapse. Reminder that just last week we were supposed to put it in charge of every system
@haydnbelfield Haydn Belfield on x
Some people seem surprised by this, but they shouldn't be. This is the mainstream view of most staff and leadership at all the frontier AI companies - OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Inflection, Conjecture, much of Microsoft and Google
@jessetinsley Jesse Tinsley on x
The OpenAI team waits for the new CEO to go to sleep and then proceeds to all resign on social media en masse. Truly incredible.
@kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
Couple of interesting tweets from the new OpenAI CEO [image]
@stokel Chris Stokel-Walker on x
The OpenAI board appears to have skipped or sped up due diligence on their new CEO https://twitter.com/...
@mdudas Mike Dudas on x
so openai situation is like overthrowing coinbase ceo brian armstrong and replacing him with gary gensler?
@drjimfan @drjimfan on x
My team at NVIDIA is hiring. We 🩷 you all from OpenAI. Engineers, researchers, product team, alike. Email me at linxif@nvidia.com. DM is open too. NVIDIA has warm GPUs for you on a cold winter night like this, fresh out of the oven.🩷 I do research on AI agents. Gaming+AI,... [ima…
@tobi Tobi Lutke on x
Sam is a legend. Crazy turn of events. Sad to see him move on from OpenAI.
@p_millerd Paul Millerd on x
How do you call a three hour decision to be CEO of a company “not taking it lightly”
@anil_paudell Anil Paudel on x
When @Karpathy hints this, things are definitely not okay at @OpenAI I just hope one of the greatest startup ever created and assembled team do not get messed up this soon.
@binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x
Not to endorse the board's specific actions, but I do think people have been treating OpenAI's nonprofit status too casually in recent months. It's not supposed to be a normal for-profit startup maximizing shareholder returns and it was weird how much it was acting like that.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
Just about everyone underestimated the board and its integrity, and very few thought to seriously consider what they had learned about Sam. Until we find out what that was, and why Sam sought exoneration, I believe that we should give the board some benefit of the doubt.
@stokel Chris Stokel-Walker on x
This is quite clearly intended as a joke, but I'm not sure what the punchline is [image]
@akbirthko Karthik on x
i think it's bc ilya wanted to use jax
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
Time for Microsoft to develop its own foundational model.
@mpopv Matt Popovich on x
“specific” here is a curious word [image]
@flyosity Mike Rundle on x
New OpenAI CEO wants to slow down progress of the company he now runs by 80-90% Let me off this train 🤮
@deepneuron Deep Prasad on x
This is actually quite reassuring. Actions speak louder than words. Best of luck and Godspeed. Please do not slow down the pace of progress at OpenAI. It's critical for the future of humanity. @eshear
@smtuffy Sean Tuffy on x
I mean, guys, there's got to be some reason he got fired. [image]
@nearcyan Near on x
from OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear: “the board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that”
@karpathy Andrej Karpathy on x
☢️
@ashleevance Ashlee Vance on x
Was game of chicken until the very end. Only constant was board talking to just about no one.
@suhail @suhail on x
there is no side to be on to say this: i feel a deep sense of sadness for the people of openai. they steeply began ascending a frontier that gave us so much excitement only to be wandering in the dark—a darkness i hope comes w some light tomorrow. ♥️
@kevinakwok Kevin Kwok on x
At this point AI may have more hard fork fights than Bitcoin ever did
@jeffdean Jeff Dean on x
This is a small research community. To all my friends, former colleagues and those that I don't know at OpenAI, the last few days have been a rollercoaster for those of us watching from the outside: I can't imagine the ebb & flow of emotions you're all experiencing. ♥️
@ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x
Media has been so gullible reporting on 1st yesterday's 5p deadline and then today's Sam will be back any minute now marathon
@deliprao @deliprao on x
I sent this to a reporter in response to a query yesterday when things didn't look this crazy. Now that it is clear the future of OpenAI is uncertain, we should encourage all companies to build on resilient AI technology that only open source can offer. [image]
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
In any case, MSFT stock could get hit tomorrow as it did Friday, so an Altman deal would help. It's doubtful a startup type like Altman would go in house, but MSFT could help find a new startup with others who will be lining up to hand over many truckloads of dough.
@mattlynley Matthew Lynley on x
What to know about Emmett: -Ran one of the most difficult moderation and video streaming problems on the planet (which includes AI) -Sold Twitch to Amazon for $1B AND stuck around -Never ever heard anyone say anything other than nice things about the guy -Runs a draw-go blue deck
@azeem Azeem Azhar on x
so the board has the courage of their convictions.
@georgenhammond George Hammond on x
“There was no one big problem. The board reached the point where they couldn't believe what Sam told them” @madhumita29 and I on why Emmett Shear became CEO and Altman was snubbed What a day... https://www.ft.com/...
@simonw Simon Willison on x
So the interim CEO turned on the board, and the board then turned on the interim CEO? Looks like there's not much of a cone of silence left, I imagine we will hear pretty much everything over the next few days
@eshear Emmett Shear on x
@PritamBordoloi Rapidly and unexpectedly
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Ok, I am back for a few hours to update you since this idiocy at @OpenAI is pretty epic. Thus, let me tell you what's what: The negotiations with @sama were ongoing and there was a noon PT deadline today when @ilyasut and his side asked until 5 pm. That's when things went wacky.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
A clod of a board stays consistent to its cloddery. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
@ejzim ... As I noted, if there was a smoking gun, it better be pretty smoky or else it engenders speculation not in evidence. Like Gary just did out of whole cloth. I would love to see what issue they had. But just yesterday, the board said there were no improper issues. It's cl…
@jason @jason on x
OpenAI is going to collapse Microsoft, Google, and anyone with a budget is going to raid what's left of the team that doesn't go with Sam The entire poker table has been tossed over... chips, drinks, cards, players strewn everywhere — complete chaos. And chaos is a ladder...
@lessin @lessin on x
Team Tom. [image]
@tlbtlbtlb Trevor Blackwell on x
OpenAI couldn't be in better hands.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
After dithering with Altman and his side for a few more hours, they dropped this out of left field, introducing a ceo who is — and I am being generous here, less than impressive in comparison to the interim ceo @miramurati and obvi Altman. But she wanted Altman and @gdb back,...
@kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
“Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our..…
@basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x
New CEO of OpenAI ladies and gents. Absolute weapons-grade Decel. RIP OpenAI. It's completely over. Long Sama NewCo. [image]
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
interesting how this tweet aged.
@stokel Chris Stokel-Walker on x
Did they look at this stuff at all lmao [image]
@fmanjoo Farhad Manjoo on x
never imagined quora would play such a decisive role in world history
@robbensinger Rob Bensinger on x
With the benefit of hindsight, the last few days really look like “powerful people fought, and journalists were purely functioning as easily-controlled pawns in the power struggle”. Which... for all the criticisms I have of journalists, is not something I remember seeing before.
@davidburkett38 David Burkett on x
I find it hard to believe this kind of thinking actually exists. “Slowing down” on AI research just means falling behind your competitors, who obviously won't slow down. Trying to slow progress in technological development shows exactly why AGI is needed: because humans are...
@tobi Tobi Lutke on x
Two of the best founders of this generation. Dispatched like this: https://x.com/... We need to take nonsense like doomerism more seriously if it can destroy one of the most important companies in the world just like that.
@amir Amir Efrati on x
The new interim OpenAI CEO @eshear, as everyone can see, has said he wants to slow down the pace of AI development to ensure products are made safely. Means he is, as one would expect, aligned with Ilya Sutskever (the master of OpenAI).
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Remember: If OpenAI does not meet the terms of the contract, it can walk. Speaking of walking, that would be half the company tomorrow, which is an issue to follow Altman. MSFT is very interested in Altman and would dearly love him to decamp there with the troops, as would many.
@parismarx Paris Marx on x
Truly a masterful move from Microsoft. It made a deal to effectively control OpenAI early in this AI boom cycle so it could become a leader without prompting regulatory action. But after the OpenAI board's ham-fisted move on Friday, Microsoft is seizing the top talent. [image]
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
@karaswisher ... I'm not sure that was exactly what @azeem was saying, but any CEO of OpenAI has to meet special obligations, given its unique structure and mission; Sam is gone apparently because he did something that the board felt was not in keeping with the bylaws. https://ww…
@andreferraz91 André Ferraz on x
Great day for @OpenAI's competitors.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
And jacking the interim lady ceo for a mediocre white dude is a Silicon Valley chef's kiss.
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Was the former Juicero CEO not free?
@khoomeik Rohan Pandey on x
hella words but maybe some alpha here: “The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety” cap?? sam and emmett are great product ppl. only diff seems to be emmett is way more safetyist.
@andykreed Tweet Davidson on x
Ex-Twitch CEO running OpenAI??? What's he gonna do, ask the chat??
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
@karaswisher ... Wait what - when did the board say there no improper issues? I saw that an employee said this, not a board member. Ilya, who is on the board, seems quite clear below that he believes something was amiss in Sam's behavior. [image]
@john__allard @john__allard on x
The first OpenAI employee to stop working before 1am. Extremely bearish
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
The https://justin.tv/ and then Switch guy? That guy? They looked across the entire tech landscape for someone to head the most important startup of the current era and landed on him?
@qualythe @qualythe on x
We've been told this by multiple sources now, maybe it's actually true [image]
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
@miramurati ... And thus, here we are late Sunday night, and Sam will indeed never be a guest again at OpenAI. “We are dumbfounded,” said another source. That makes sense since it is very dumb. [image]
@nivi @nivi on x
Emmett, with respect, why would anyone be a customer of OpenAI with an insane and unqualified 4-person board running the show?
@alistairmbarr Alistair Barr on x
Now we really really need to know what Sam Altman didn't tell the OpenAI board https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
@lastpositivist Liam Bright on x
The new CEO of OpenAI follows me on Twitter whereas the old one did not. Huge improvement, full support for whatever happened for whatever reason. Positivism is back babyyyyyyyyy
@then_there_was Andrew Ruiz on x
GPT-5 delayed until 2040.
@ashleevance Ashlee Vance on x
Microsoft is NOT pleased about the outcome. Tomorrow will be an interesting day for stock.
@levie Aaron Levie on x
When this is all over, OpenAI owes everyone in tech two days of unlimited free tokens to make up for the loss in productivity across the industry this weekend on behalf of the current board.
@pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x
great message from Emmett, new CEO of OpenAI -he just got the call today and decided to join in a few hours -he'll conduct an investigation to generate a report on how they got here -depending on the results he'll drive changes in the org incl recommending governance changes
@dalmaer Dion Almaer on x
3 CEOs in 3 days. It's like the Tories.
@liron Liron Shapira on x
AI existential risk should make you “shit your pants” —@eshear, Interim CEO of OpenAI [video]
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
@miramurati @gdb Re: Interim dude Shear. A made a good Juicero joke over at X, but he is well regarded enough though not as experienced as Murati. I assume he was the best one they could get who said yes and he was free and presumably bored. He sold Twitch to Amazon for close to …
@twobitidiot Ryan Selkis on x
And I am not saying that the board room coup makes much sense from an economic standpoint. It doesn't. But OpenAI is a non-profit, and I can't view this as the same level of “screwing a founder” as if it were a for-profit with an explicit capitalist mission. Original sin...
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
Good sign for OpenAI that the new CEO is a poster [image]
@kevin_kcdpr Kevin Dinino on x
3 different CEOs since Friday and we haven't hit Monday AM yet!
@annaarthoe Anna on x
And it's clear that the process and communications around Sam's removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust.
@stokel Chris Stokel-Walker on x
“The Nazis were very evil, but” is a suboptimal thing for a CEO to say (even when making the case for how much of an existential risker they are) https://twitter.com/...
@emilychangtv Emily Chang on x
I believe Sam and Emmett were in the same class at @ycombinator
@juwanthewriter @juwanthewriter on x
This crossover of Silicon Valley and Succession is incredible stuff.
@levie Aaron Levie on x
One outcome that would be great is if our industry would stop anthropomorphizing AI and lay off the sci-fi books for a while.
@teknium1 @teknium1 on x
Main takeaway, [image]
@alightcone @alightcone on x
All this does is guarantee some other company or nation breaks through first, and then we live in their world.
@wholemarsblog @wholemarsblog on x
Wow. This is a hard left for OpenAI
@pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x
The new CEO of OpenAI said he wants to slow down the pace of AI from a “10” to a “1-2” I would bet on the other guys
@amittm Amitt Mahajan on x
If there was going to be an experienced external CEO that was guaranteed to take a nuanced and thoughtful approach to speed vs safety, there likely isn't more ideal candidate than @eshear. Congrats Emmett!
@gdb Greg Brockman on x
Greg Brockman describes OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's role in Sam Altman's firing, Brockman's removal from OpenAI's board, and Mira Murati's foreknowledge
r/LivestreamFail r on reddit
Former CEO of Twitch, Emmett Shear, was just named CEO of OpenAI
r/slatestarcodex r on reddit
Emmett Shear Becomes Interim OpenAI CEO as Altman Talks Break Down
r/singularity r on reddit
Tweet from the interim CEO of OpenAI..
r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
OpenAI Board Taps Former Twitch CEO Shear to Succeed Altman
r/technews r on reddit
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart
r/OpenAI r on reddit
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart
r/OpenAI r on reddit
OpenAI Board Taps Former Twitch CEO Shear to Succeed Altman
r/ChatGPT r on reddit
OpenAI hires Emmett Shear, former Twitch CEO. Here's what happened according to Bloomberg.
@nivi @nivi on x
Goodbye OpenAI. I recommend all employees quit. Your board has defamed your old CEO, kept you in the dark all weekend and gone through two CEOs in about 48 hours. They're incompetent beyond measure.
@loganbartlett Logan Bartlett on x
How does the board of OpenAI let 48 hours go by without any explanation?
@loomdart @loomdart on x
bro imagine being an openAI investor right now this is HORRIFYING man is just crying and shitting on the floor over every new tweet this is like a never ending hell 😭😭😭
@divestech Dan Ives on x
The circus show at OpenAI over weekend nothing Silicon Valley or Wall Street ever seen. A 4 person Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus Board removes Altman and will not let him back. Nadella and Microsoft take things into their own hands and hire Altman as adults take over.
@hiddevdploeg Hidde van der Ploeg on x
This whole OpenAI story feels like a whole season of HBO's Silicon Valley in one weekend!
@typedfemale @typedfemale on x
it's amusing imagining nytimes reporters pissing in bottles camping outside the openai office on a weekend so they can report the executive's doordash orders [image]
@anothercohen Alex Cohen on x
Me trying to explain the OpenAI drama from this weekend to my non terminally online coworkers tomorrow morning at standup [image]
@soumithchintala Soumith Chintala on x
this weekend has been very sad. My friends at @OpenAI swore that it had become a magical place, with the talent density, velocity, research focus and (yet) a product fit that is really generational. For such a place to breakdown in the cringiest way possible is doubly sad.
@tomgara Tom Gara on x
The OpenAI thing is only the second worst thing to happen to Satya this weekend
@terrorproforma @terrorproforma on x
In the last 72 hours > CEO removed by board from fastest growing company in history for being too successful > mfw it's bc it's a cult ideology that believes in sci-fi fantasies > employees revolt, many quit and threaten to > even CTO, investors, Microsoft tried to bring them... …
@dylanleclair_ Dylan LeClair on x
OpenAI just nuked itself from within in 72 hours. Absolutely incredible.
@kyliebytes Kylie Robison on x
so satya is hiring sam altman as the CEO of “a new advanced AI research team” and we STILL don't know what he did to get ousted
@chassnews Anne-Sylvaine Chassany on x
Neither Altman nor Brockman were steeped in deep learning. That was the province of the third core member of OpenAI's leadership group, Ilya Sutskever. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
@tunguz Bojan Tunguz on x
I want to be the OpenAI employee who turns his cell phone off at noon Friday for his weekend trip to a Tahoe log cabin and turns it back on Monday morning.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@DavidSacks Given the risk and power of advanced AI, the public should be informed of why the board felt they had to take such drastic action
@shengjia_zhao Shengjia Zhao on x
He had 60 hours now to name evidence of safety concerns or wrong doing to justify burning an entire company to the ground. But he could name nothing, zero, naught.
@investmentshulk @investmentshulk on x
GET THIS DUDE AN OPENAI BOARD SEAT WHILE WE'RE AT IT [video]
@davidsacks David Sacks on x
Sam should get his job back, the board should be replaced by founders and investors who have skin in the game, the nonprofit should be converted to a C-corp, and Elon should get shares for putting in the first $40M+. In other words, undo all the shenanigans.
@mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x
who knows if it's the right decision, but i think it's cool the openai board stood by its guns. there's so much pressure for conformity and the appearance of unaniminity on social media only makes that pressure more intense.
@pmddomingos Pedro Domingos on x
And now, having hired the worst possible CEO, how can the OpenAI board top itself?
@tobyordoxford Toby Ord on x
Most coverage of the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI is treating it as a corporate board firing a high-performing CEO at the peak of their success. The reaction is shock and disbelief. But this misunderstands the nature of the board and their legal duties. 1/n
@alexlmiller Alex Miller on x
As much fun as this weekend has been, the thought that even shitposting is part of what will ultimately potentially give Sam a lot more unchecked power doesn't make me feel great
@jeremyakahn Jeremy Kahn on x
This piece by @EricNewcomer is worth reading and considering. The issue is that we really need to know why the specifics of why board felt it necessary to fire Altman. Without knowing, remains very hard to judge whether board was doing its duty to OpenAI's charter or not.
@pkafka Peter Kafka on x
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@ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x
most terrifying thing I've published since going independent. but sometimes you have to go against the crowd https://www.newcomer.co/...
@nivi @nivi on x
OpenAI board continues to LARP and burn their reputation to the ground with mumbo jumbo. Their position is that Satya just hired someone who is not honest? [image]
@blader Siqi Chen on x
i'd like to be the first to congratulate the board of openai for orchestrating the acquisition of their team to microsoft for $0 billion dollars. masterfully played.
@twenseleers Tom Wenseleers on x
The whole OpenAI debacle is also a spectacular example of that whole effective altruism mirage clashing with reality... Not getting their own goals and egos aligned seems to have been a more imminent problem than the AI alignment problem itself... https://twitter.com/...
@twenseleers Tom Wenseleers on x
I never thought those AI doom scenarios of Ilya Sutskever made any sense: AIs do not self-replicate. Instead, the best ones and most useful ones get copied more & lead to new branches on the tree of AI systems. ChatGPT now will no doubt get a sibling over at Microsoft.
@ricburton Ric Burton on x
Brutal take from an OpenAI researcher
@ryan_t_lowe Ryan Lowe on x
importantly, I think the deepest motivation for what is happening is less “a power grab for selfish reasons” and more “a near-sacred mandate to avoid ‘doom’ at any cost” https://twitter.com/...
@jeffjarvis @jeffjarvis on x
On the one hand, the OpenAI board stands for safe implementation of AI. On the other hand, they & the latest CEO are AI doomers w/ties to TESCREAL. Meanwhile, Altman insists he's on the way to AGI. Nuts. The hallucinations are not in the machine but in their heads.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@GaryMarcus Sure would be helpful to know what really happened
@mrjasonchoi Jason Choi on x
Saw an OTC ask for $20M worth of OpenAI equity at $100B two weeks ago. Wonder how much that's worth today [image]
@researchqf @researchqf on x
1) @OpenAI slows down because the board both realized they needed @sama back (!) but was unwilling to step down (and this came up all day Sunday - absolve Sam). ROW stays at speed 10. OpenAI slows to 1-2? Everyone but board knows there's only outcome. This will be front run. [ima…
@tszzl Roon on x
wanton destruction of a beautiful thing
@kris @kris on x
Big win for Satya. Better than an outright acquisition and at 0 incremental dollars spent definitely cheaper. Congratulations to the OpenAI board for record-breaking 90b value destruction, while accomplishing absolutely nothing.
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
The number of people simply unable to imagine that the Board acted in a good faith with a legitimate and serious concern boggles my mind. We don't of course know what happened, but simply dismissing that possibility seems foolish to me, especially given that they were not...
@shengjia_zhao Shengjia Zhao on x
Ilya does not care about safety or the humanity. This is just ego and power hunger that backfired.
@blader Siqi Chen on x
in one tweet: gpt5 more powerful than expected, spooks ilya, ilya turns the board, board fires sam, staff revolts, satya turns the screws, mira threatens to hire sam and gdb back, d'angelo replaces her with emmett shear as ceo, satya recruits sam and gdb to msft to oversee openai
@pmddomingos Pedro Domingos on x
Ilya really didn't like it when OpenAI turned into the Sam Altman Show.
@s8mb Sam Bowman on x
I take AI safety pretty seriously, but it really bothers me that some in the AI safety world don't take the upsides of AGI seriously. Yes, we should try to avoid an AGI that wipes out humanity, but an AGI that could *end death* isn't something to give up trying to develop ASAP.
@jezcorden Jez on x
OpenAI board of directors are the dumbest mfkrs in recent corporate history.
@autismcapital @autismcapital on x
BREAKING: OpenAI board releases a statement. via: NYT 🚨 [image]
@colinmegill Colin Megill on x
but really, the @OpenAI board was playing 1D chess, that's the story of the weekend
@twobitidiot Ryan Selkis on x
Sam Altman being out at OpenAI is probably the only thing that ensures that AI will actually be open in the U.S. vs. dominated by one “non-profit” firm begging for regulation in D.C. Counterintuitively a great day for American tech. (Aside from Microsoft.)
r/technology r on reddit
Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
@mark_r_vickers Mark Vickers on threads
Very good article. Thanks for gift posting. Weird detail: “Sutskever commissioned a wooden effigy from a local artist that was intended to represent an “unaligned” AI—that is, one that does not meet a human's objectives. He set it on fire to symbolize OpenAI's commitment to it…
@cwarzel Charlie Warzel on threads
The great @_karenhao and I spoke with 10 current and former OpenAI employees about the last chaotic year at the company and how one of the most successful tech launches of all time (ChatGPT) split OpenAI and set the company down the path to this weekend. Lots of new reporting (a…
@_karenhao @_karenhao on x
Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about @OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable @cwarzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. https://www.theatlantic.…
@afinetheorem Kevin A. Bryan on x
Atlantic scoop that some in OpenAI didn't even want to release 4 or APIs: “open” is in the name! I'm a nobody but app I built w/ API to help my students study had 4500 queries giving 1900 pages of responses...this weekend alone. Benefits of public experimentation ex-post obvious!
@yappelbaum Yoni Appelbaum on x
The story is amazing. The book will be even better.
@simonw Simon Willison on x
This is excellent
@mreflow Matt Wolfe on x
This is a great article and pretty much follows the same narrative that I laid out in my most recent video.
@ankurb Ankur Banerjee on x
This is...wild. Excellent reporting into what's been going on for the past year at OpenAI. Non-paywalled link: https://web.archive.org/... [image]
@reillymj Michael Reilly on x
As usual, Karen has pointed the way to the most important facets of this issue (not to mention resurfacing that the company's name has been a deep, abiding irony almost since the beginning). Must read.
@geomblog Suresh Venkatasubramanian on x
I thought this was the most foreboding paragraph from the excellent article by @_KarenHao and @cwarzel: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
@simonw Simon Willison on x
“Some of those who were aware, according to one employee, had started a betting pool, wagering how many people might use the tool during its first week. The highest guess was 100,000 users.”
@tszzl Roon on x
i truly respect everyone involved
@giffmana Lucas Beyer on x
TL;DR: researcher politics start really ramping up the moment compute gets scarce.
r/singularity r on reddit
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI
@damanr Daman Rangoola on x
“Trying to organize incentives by fiat simply doesn't account for all of the possible scenarios and variable at play in a dynamic situation; harvesting self-interest has, for good reason, long been the best way to align individuals and companies.”
@mr_james_c @mr_james_c on x
As usual, @benthompson with the best take.
@ankitkr0 Ankit on x
“This, in the end, was Nadella's insight: the key to winning if you are big is not to invent like a startup, but to leverage your size to acquire or fast-follow them; all the better if you can do it for the low price of $0.” https://stratechery.com/...
@dkthomp Derek Thompson on x
🎯@benthompson: “The structure of OpenAI was ultimately misaligned with fulfilling its stated mission: an entity committed by charter to the safe development of AI has handed off all of its work and a portion of its talent, to one of the largest for-profit entities on earth.”
@mjhere Michal Jirak on x
Anything I missed over the weekend? Just kidding, I agree with Stratechery summary: - OpenAI split and Microsoft partnered with one faction and hired the other - Microsoft gains access to OpenAI's IP and talent, potentially acquiring OpenAI for $0 - The AI industry remains...
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads
It's really wild that the OpenAI board fired their CEO in a manner typically reserved for unethical or illegal behavior because the chief scientist disagreed with the product roadmap. Microsoft has the most to lose right now. Sam Altman is now free to create a for-profit startu…
@luokai @luokai on threads
The current progress: - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is leading the discussions in negotiations. - One confirmed new board member is Bert - - - Taylor, former CEO of Salesforce. Sam is still keeping options open. Possible outcome: Sam will return to OpenAI, Ilya and the board w…
@jake_liebert Jake Liebert on threads
Profile of Ilya Sutskever from MIT Technology Review that I just got around to reading. I believe the work is important, but I can see how there's some conflict at OpenAI between those who say, want to create a marketplace for people to monetize GPTs, vs those who are researchin…
@mark_r_vickers Mark Vickers on threads
Mostly because Sutskever, while a brilliant computer scientist, is a truly terrible coup leader, having screwed this up royally. People are smart in different areas. Altman is being sainted because of the inept and petty way this went down. But the board was largely Altman's i…
@paul_rietschka Paul Rietschka on threads
That this overcompensated exec — who, let's be clear as this isn't clear to many, isn't an ML researcher — thinks he's on some sort of hero's journey with the adoring masses cheering him on is so nauseating I'm going to vomit both my lunch **and** my entire digestive tract onto t…
@zitron.bsky.social Ed Zitron on bluesky
So I've seen and heard a lot of people connecting OpenAI's non profit to Effective Altruism - but I can't find any evidence it's related, other than the idea that a non profit is more focused on a mission than shareholder value. Is there anything? [embedded post]
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@DrKnowItAll16 I am very worried. Ilya has a good moral compass and does not seek power. He would not take such drastic action unless he felt it was absolutely necessary.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@Scobleizer OpenAI is not publicly traded and all the money in the world won't matter if AI goes wrong
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Ilya Sutskever desperately trying to work out if Elon Musk approving his moral compass is a good thing or not [image]
r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
The Doomed Mission Behind Sam Altman's Shock Ouster From OpenAI
r/singularity r on reddit
Not even three hours have passed and the resignations are already massive - Ilya sutskever is undoubtedly a very stable genius!
r/MachineLearning r on reddit
From BBG: “The Doomed Mission Behind Sam Altman's Shock Ouster From OpenAI” [N]

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