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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by breadwinner on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:04PM (#38314486)
What was Greg Brockman's role at the company? Is he a tech genius like Ilya? Iam trying to understand how much tech talent Open AI is losing.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by minimaxir on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:05PM (#38314498)
He was the CTO of OpenAI, and notably was the CTO of Stripe during its hypergrowth.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by convexstrictly on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:16PM (#38314598)
LinkedIn says President, Chairman, & Co-Founder. Murati was the CTO. But from his interviews, he sounded more like the CTO.

And often like an individual contributor: "the feeling when you finally localize a bug to a small section of code, and know it's only a matter of time till you've squashed it"

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725373059740082475

"Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI."

https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309033/greg-brockman...

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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by langitbiru on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:43PM (#38314824)
Greg was the CTO before Murati. Then he was "promoted" to President and Murati replaced him as the CTO.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by convexstrictly on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:17PM (#38315093)
You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by strikelaserclaw on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:08PM (#38314515)
he seems highly proficient at technical stuff, i remember reading his blog about how he taught him self all the latest ML stuff.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by SilverSlash on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:15PM (#38314579)
Probably someone super competent at technical leadership.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by thr8976 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:17AM (#38315628)
Greg was a critically important IC and the primary author of the distributed training stack.
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Re:Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing by nabla9 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:47AM (#38317062)
CTO. Normal computer tech guy, not an AI guy.

The company was formed around Ilya Sutskever.

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