Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft
The situation at OpenAI is getting even more dicey.
OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who reportedly led the push to remove Altman, noted on X (formerly Twitter) that he had some regrets about the weekend of chaos inside OpenAI. “I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI,” said Sutskever. “I love everything we’ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.” Bizarrely, Sutskever’s name is on the list of resignations, too.
"I'll do anything to reunite the company... in Microsoft."
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Now they have the team, the chip, the cloud and the IP.
34They own openai's ip?
12Here is a comment I copied from Hacker News:
If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.
Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits.
So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts.
[1] https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/
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This has become a genuine coup.
continues to eat popcorn
14Microsoft is genius for arranging all this to happen.
3This is the best summary I could come up with:
But seeing as the board has already made its choice, deciding to remain in place and naming a new CEO, while Altman and Brockman head to Microsoft, it seems that Microsoft may have just found Altman’s first several hundred employees, assuming they’re correct about the company’s promise to hire them all.
The letter appears to have been written before the events of last night, suggesting it has been circulating since closer to Altman’s firing.
Microsoft has now created a special “advanced AI research team” to house a number of former OpenAI employees, with Altman offered a CEO title to lead the division.
He will take over from Mira Murati, who was named interim OpenAI CEO following Altman’s shock firing on Friday.
Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team, led by Altman and Brockman, comes just a week after Microsoft announced it has built its own custom AI chip that can be used to train large language models and potentially avoid a costly reliance on Nvidia.
Altman had been reportedly pitching a separate startup to build custom, Nvidia-rivaling AI tensor processing unit (TPU) chips to investors recently, according to The New York Times.
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-2Oops bot! You oversummarised and forgot to put Shear's name. Reads like Altman taking over Altman. And I replied to a bot
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