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• @eshumarneedi @eshumarneedi on threads

  Sutskever had something to do with Altman's ouster last year, though I have no idea if these two events are related.  He's been notably absent from OpenAI's communications since the debacle last November.

• @kalihays1 Kali Hays on threads

  It's interesting when people actively do not seek the limelight and then they hit a high level it's like oh wow who now??  Jakub Pachocki has been speaking to OpenAI employees on their weekly all hands for months (not long after Altman returned and Sutskever left, unofficially). …

• @bobbyallyn @bobbyallyn on threads

  wild Ilya has been MIA for six months and we're just now learning about it https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ilyasut Ilya Sutskever on x

  After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI.  The company's trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I'm confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama , @gdb , @miramurati and now, under the exc…

• @merettm Jakub Pachocki on x

  Ilya introduced me to the world of deep learning research, and has been a mentor to me, and a great collaborator for many years. His incredible vision for what deep learning could become was foundational to what OpenAI, and the field of AI, is today. I am deeply grateful to him

• @gdb Greg Brockman on x

  I have immense gratitude to Ilya for being my co-founder, my friend, and the officiant at my civil ceremony. Together, we charted the path of what OpenAI would become today. When we started in late 2015, OpenAI was a non-profit with a mission to make AGI go well but without a

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.  This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend.  His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less impor…

• @thatnaman Naman Mishra on x

  i have immense respect for Ilya as a scientist. spear-heading research and bringing open ai to what it is today is a feat we see achieved only few times in centuries. sad to see him leave, but excited for what he'd be working on next! also, you've got to love the tshirt! [image]

• @npew Peter Welinder on x

  @ilyasut We'll miss you Ilya ❤️

• @bitcloud @bitcloud on x

  “benefits everyone” not “is free and open for all” There's a subtlety in the way a lot of these psuedobenevolence missions phrase things. EA does it. OpenAI does it. DEI does it. It's a structure that retains a parent/child relationship. You can eat from the king's hand.

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  Ilya hasn't said what he is doing next but we can perhaps take a clue from the fact that he only follows 2 accounts... OpenAI and the Dachshund community page. Is he leaving one to work at the other? 👀 [image]

• @gregorydiamos Greg Diamos on x

  Appreciate your contributions getting us this far - you accelerated the scaling law timeline by years Can't wait to see what you do next

• @battleangelviv Viv on x

  @sama you know it's serious when a sama post isn't in lowercase 🫡

• @aynio2 Ay Nio on x

  the real OAI announcement dropped. secret sauce left the KrustyKrabs. i am so excited to see what Ilya is up to next, it would be a blessing to work with him

• @jeffdean Jeff Dean on x

  @ilyasut ... Ilya, best of luck in all that comes next for you. I was pleased to call you a colleague for many years, and I've admired everything you've accomplished at OpenAI. I always enjoy when our paths cross (even if just for coffee).

• @victortaelin @victortaelin on x

  @ilyasut ... Ilya, if I even have the right to ask something - please, whenever possible, post more. Share more, do make talks, write more. Every time you do it, humanity changes to better, not insignificantly so. Your ideas are invaluable. I miss your tweets a lot.

• @nicdunz @nicdunz on x

  I think that with Ilya and Jan both gone today, it means OpenAI is moving towards unalignment, as it should be. You can see this in how the new voice mode talks, which is clearly not alignment.

• @abacaj Anton on x

  Bearish for OpenAI from now on [image]

• @russellbrandom Russell Brandom on x

  Interesting timing to do this the day after the GPT-4o launch

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  Ilya news. I guess this is the final “wow” of all the drama that happened on OpenAI's board a few months back.

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  feeling the AGI today 🩵

• @npcollapse Connor Leahy on x

  Canary in the coal mine. Congrats to Ilya and Jan for doing the right thing.

• @crypto_mckenna McKenna on x

  Why would the Chief Scientist at OpenAI leave when it's clearly the central hub for the frontier? Why would Altman be removed as CEO and be reinstated later on? All of this is incredibly strange and suspect.

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  6 months after the failed coup (179 days to be precise) [image]

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  Ilya finally getting to read all the banger posts we made about him after emerging from the OpenAI basement Faraday cage [image]

• @adamlowisz Adam Lowisz on x

  @elonmusk ... I still want to know what Ilya saw 👀 [image]

• @afinetheorem Kevin A. Bryan on x

  OpenAI has both the most amazing products (that demo voice yesterday was unbelievable) & the craziest drama. GenAI legends Ilya & Jan resigning right after demo? I'm surprised many journos don't know common belief around SV: that like Elon, Sam is 1 of 1 at his job, but also...

• @nope_its_lily Lily on x

  this is what ilya saw [image]

• @ananayarora @ananayarora on x

  Today is national leave-your-tech-job day: Ilya Sutskever leaving OpenAI Jan Leike (co-inventor of RLHF) also leaving openai CEO of AWS stepping down

• @autismcapital @autismcapital on x

  Ilya attempted a coup and failed and now is out. Are we missing anything here? It seems pretty simple to us.

• @briansolis Brian Solis on x

  Like sands through an hourglass, so are the days of AI... Ilya to leave OpenAI.

• @benjamindekr @benjamindekr on x

  @krushnarajx Ilya may be assembling a team Or there's something creepy in the basement

• @cengajdomicog John Bowman on x

  @sama You are the best team, and Ilya's departure from this team is truly regrettable.

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  OAI the day before Google I/O: flashy demo to steal the thunder OAI the day of I/O: Ilya gone now

• r/slatestarcodex r on reddit

  Ilya Sutskever: “After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI”

• r/news r on reddit

  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he will leave the startup

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he will leave the startup

• @janleike Jan Leike on x

  I resigned

• @jason @jason on x

  💔

• @cstanley Christopher Stanley on x

  The plot thickens

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  The man in charge of the alignment team, or “optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes,” at OpenAI has quit, after Ilya Sutskever was pushed out today, months after apparently being a major force in the board firing Sam Altman, citing ethics reasons still unknown

• @alx @alx on x

  Season 2 of the OpenAI drama has begun

• @officiallogank Logan Kilpatrick on x

  @janleike Keep fighting the good fight 🫡

• @sparklingruby Kristen Ruby on x

  @janleike Why is OpenAI like this

• @teknium1 @teknium1 on x

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• @sixela_akire @sixela_akire on x

  OpenAI Season 2 just dropped [image]

• @autismcapital @autismcapital on x

  Another one bites the dust.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @Jason @janleike I have to say that I rather admire the simple honesty of Jan's statement

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Jan Leike, who headed up the superalignment team at OpenAI with Ilya Sutskever, says he resigned hours after Ilya announced he's left the company

• @iscienceluvr Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. on x

  Jan Leike, the coinventor of RLHF and superalignment co-lead at OpenAI has resigned

• @leopoldasch Leopold Aschenbrenner on x

  ❤️

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  OpenAI all-in on e/acc confirmed

• @jason @jason on x

  @janleike Here we go again 🤍🤍🤍🤍 😂😂😂😂