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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by fakedang on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:21AM (#38330051)
That's true, but Sutskever and Co still have the head start. On the models, the training data, the GPT4 licenses, etc. Their Achilles heel is the compute which Microsoft will pull out. Khosla Ventures and Sequoia may sell their Open AI stakes at a discount, but I'm sure either Google or Amazon will snap it up.

All Sam and Greg really have is the promise of building a successful competitor, with a big backing from Microsoft and Softbank, while OpenAI is the orphan child with the huge estate. Microsoft isn't exactly the kingmaker here.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by peyton on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:26AM (#38330083)
It doesn’t sound like Sutskever is running anything. OpenAI reportedly put out a memo saying they’re trying to get Sam and Greg back: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-optimistic-it...
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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by fakedang on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:28AM (#38330847)
Sutskever built the models behind GPT4, if I reckon correctly (all credit to the team, but he's the focal point behind expanding on Google transformers). I don't see Sam and Greg working with him under the same roof after this fiasco, since he voted them out (he could have been the tiemaker vote).
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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday November 19, 2023 @02:21PM (#38336667)
OpenAI leadership (board, CEO) didn't say that ... your link said their "Chief Strategy Officer" Jason Kwon said it.

Most likely outcome here does seem to be that Altman/Brockman come back, Sutskever leaves and joins Google, and OpenAI becomes for all intensive purposes a commercial endeavor, with Microsoft wielding a lot more clout over them (starting with one or more board seats).

Big winner in this scenario would be Google.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by adastra22 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @07:42PM (#38340546)
Sam just posted a selfie wearing an OpenAI guest badge at the SF offices. He's back there for some sort of negotiations.
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