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• @joannastern Joanna Stern on threads

  Wow.  OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company.  Will be fascinating to see what she does next.  Perhaps she can let me know now if YouTube is being used for Sora training data!

• @kylie.robison Kylie Robison on threads

  the very obvious dots we're all connecting is that there have been reports of openAI becoming a for-profit company and giving sam altman a 7% stake as the company nears a $150 billion (!) valuation altman claims it was an amicable split, but mira murati retained independent PR...

• @katiedrumm Katie Drummond on threads

  A source confirmed to @wired that Murati's last day hasn't been settled on — which suggests that this is either extremely extremely uniquely amicable/chill OR very very sudden and not chill at all?  (Her using her own PR to announce it suggests the latter to me.)

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  I expect she will announce the launch of her new startup, Safer Safe Superintelligence, sometimes soon

• @laurengoode Lauren Goode on threads

  The message being pushed right now by a few key tech companies —including Meta at today's Connect —is that the new new era of these AI models is voice/speech, and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati makes a point to mention this in her just-dropped exit note

• @miramurati Mira Murati on x

  I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. [image]

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  i just posted this note to openai: Hi All- Mira has been instrumental to OpenAI's progress and growth the last 6.5 years; she has been a hugely significant factor in our development from an unknown research lab to an important company. When Mira informed me this morning that

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  I replied with this.  Mira, thank you for everything.  It's hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to us all personally.  I feel tremendous gratitude towards her for what she has helped us build and accomplish, but I most of all feel personal gratit…

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Wait what?  Murati is leaving, Schulman left, Karpathy left, Ilya left, Leike left, Brockman is on leave, perhaps a dozen others left, GPT-5 hasn't dropped, Sora hasn't shipped, the company had an operating loss of $5b last year, there is no obvious moat, Meta is giving away simi…

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  “We're sorry, but we can't fund your $5 million seed round if your CTO and chief research officer are leaving... Oh, you want $6.5 billion? Check is on the way!”

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Hearing that employees at OpenAI are stunned by the news about OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's departure, many replied with a “wtf” emoji to an internal note announcing the exit https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  There's an exodus of executives from OpenAI, the company is burning billions a year, its enterprise offerings are widely criticized, Sam Altman appears to spend half of his day doing podcasts, and there is still no proven business model. This company is seeking a $150b valuation.

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  OpenAI's creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he'd stay durably aligned to those goals. 🤔

• @parmy Parmy Olson on x

  OpenAI plans to neuter its nonprofit board. Sam Altman is looking for 7% equity (worth $10.5bn) in the firm. Several leaders like Mira Murati are leaving. I think it's safe to say building A.I. “for the benefit of humanity” was a mirage.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  When you're the most successful tech startup in recent memory but can't seem to hold on to any senior people or founders. [image]

• @dkardonsky_ Dennis on x

  The 1 person billion dollar company? OpenAI

• @netcapgirl Sophie on x

  openai drama is like game of thrones for people terminally online

• @officiallogank Logan Kilpatrick on x

  Mira deserves to take a break, she's been sprinting at OAI for 5+ years, and also to get a chance to build 0-1 again. Everything doesn't need to be a controversy.

• @pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x

  OpenAI is nothing without its people

• @mattturck Matt Turck on x

  Airbnb has no hotels Uber has no cars OpenAI has no C-levels It's the new economy [image]

• @gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x

  Wild. Everyone has left OpenAI, Sam is brilliant but not technical and Microsoft is furiously trying to make their own model to replace OpenAI. [image]

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Apple should hire her immediately.

• @jg_nuke @jg_nuke on x

  This is the part where the financial press tells us that the abrupt departure of a CFO, with no replacement planned, in the middle of a negotiating a $150B capital raise, is really a good thing. Right? [image]

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  Shouldn't this have leaked *during* the Meta keynote?

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces shes's leaving the company

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  OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces she's leaving the company

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  OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces she's leaving the company

• r/LocalLLaMA r on reddit

  Mira Murati leaving OpenAI

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  The first really tangible use-case for blockchain would be keeping track of all the OpenAI execs and founders who leave, and all the Google AI scientists who get acquihired back for a billion each.

• @crumbler Casey Newton on threads

  OpenAI is a weird company.

• @barret_zoph Barret Zoph on x

  I posted this note to OpenAI. Hey everybody, I have decided to leave OpenAI. This was a very difficult decision as I have has such an incredible time at OpenAI. I got to join right before ChatGPT and helped build the post-training team from scratch with John Schulman and

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  i just posted this note to openai: Hi All- Mira has been instrumental to OpenAI’s progress and growth the last 6.5 years; she has been a hugely significant factor in our development from an unknown research lab to an important company.  When Mira informed me this morning that s…

• @markchen90 Mark Chen on x

  While today's departures are tough, I'm incredibly excited and honored to lead research at @OpenAI alongside @merettm. I truly believe that OpenAI is the best place to work on AI, and I've been through enough ups and downs to know it's never wise to bet against us.

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  can you imagine how little OpenAI drama there would be if CA enforced non competes

• @greg16676935420 Greg on x

  @sama What the heck did they see

• @brewmarkets @brewmarkets on x

  @sama How it started vs. How it's going [image]

• @polynoamial Noam Brown on x

  @barret_zoph You've built an amazing team and done incredible work here. We will miss you!

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  So we now know that Mira only informed SamA this morning, the same morning we learn OpenAI is to become a B-Corp and abandon its mission, and they're going to lose too more top people, Bob and Barret. Huh.

• @firerock31 Andy Cheng on threads

  OpenAI's transformation:  — Non-profit legacy continues, with minority stake in for-profit spinoff.  — Sam Altman will receive equity stake.  — Removes return cap for investors.  —  This strategic shift recognizes the limitations of non-profit models in scaling cutting-edge tech.…

• @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social Jeff Jarvis on mastodon

  Surprise, surprise, surprise:  —  OpenAI is planning to convert from a nonprofit organization to a for-profit company at the same time it is undergoing significant personnel changes https://www.wsj.com/...

• @parismarx@mastodon.online Paris Marx on mastodon

  gotta cash in before the bubble bursts!  —  the writing's been on the wall that this was poised to happen for ages, but it's still a great example of how tech companies will promise the world in the beginning then betray everything they claimed to stand for when there's real mone…

• @gec.bsky.social Griffin Eckstein on bluesky

  This is so, so bad.  The (admittedly not sufficient enough) guardrails on OpenAI's for-profit use are coming off [embedded post]

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Everyone should watch this video. I sat right next to Sam when he said this, and later realized he wasn't telling the whole truth. (He had some indirect equity he didn't disclose). $10.5B later I think he is a stone-cold liar.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Tend to agree with @elonmusk. Legal experts please weigh in...

• @thepacketrat Sean Gallagher on x

  2015: “We're going to make sure that AI is safe, and do it open source as a non-profit to save the world.” 2024: “F*ck that let's make lots of money and watch the world burn” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @can @can on x

  i feel like ppl are reading too much into this openai becoming a for-profit thing / sama taking equity — no investor would give money to a non-profit (duh) and any serious investor would tie the mgmt's incentives to theirs

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  You can't just convert a non-profit into a for-profit. That is illegal.

• @amitisinvesting Amit on x

  so let me get this straight openai decides to become a for-profit company now the cto, head of research, and vp of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced sam altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day tim cook and satya

• @austin_rief Austin Rief on x

  I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that OpenAI's CTO stepped down the same day as it removed its non-profit status. [image]

• @dinabass Dina Bass on x

  OpenAI is discussing giving Sam Altman a 7% equity stake as part of a restructuring to become a for-profit business https://www.bloomberg.com/... by @rachelmetz @EdLudlow @shiringhaffary & me

• @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x

  Nobody's giving billions to OpenAI out of the goodness of their heart. Long term, they want insane profits and they want its CEO to have a financial incentive to succeed (even if Altman himself would work for free). The non-profit structure hasn't made sense for a while now.

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Sam Altman to the Senate, 2023: I don't have any equity in OpenAI Reality then: he had indirect equity in OpenAI that he didn't disclose Reality, soon: he will have direct equity, as well. [image]

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  This is also interesting timing, given there has been a lot more recent chatter about Altman's hardware project with Jony Ive (and which Altman said this week was not a phone). Does OpenAI equity = skin in the game to keep Altman from getting too much startup wanderlust?

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  For years, we've wondered how Sam Altman could run OpenAI without any equity. Perhaps OpenAI's new board and Altman have been wondering that, too. Very curious what employees think about this shift further from its non-profit mission. DMs open 👀

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  If the nonprofit is “core to the mission”, why are OpenAI executives stripping it of its power and control? [image]

• @amir Amir Efrati on x

  4 months ago https://www.theinformation.com/ ... [image]

• r/artificial r on reddit

  One-Minute Daily AI News 9/25/2024

• r/ChatGPT r on reddit

  NOW they're officially ClosedAI.

• r/slatestarcodex r on reddit

  Reuters: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

• r/technews r on reddit

  OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

• r/singularity r on reddit

  OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity.

• r/tech r on reddit

  OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity, sources say