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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:46AM (#38347194)
What’s the evidence behind “they got the best part of their team?”

It seems to me roughly all of the value of OpenAI’s products is in the model itself and presumably the supporting infrastructure, neither of which seem like they’re going to MSFT (yet?).

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by moralestapia on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:59AM (#38347341)
Go to Twitter (X?) and search for "OpenAI is nothing without its people" and prepare to be mind blown.

It's seems like a cult right now, tbh.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:37AM (#38347808)
A bit culty but am I to interpret this as, “if I post that the people are important to this company, I am going to resign?”
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by moralestapia on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:46AM (#38347946)
Yes, it's how they pledge their alliance to @sama.

Whether they actually move to MS or not remains to be seen, but it is definitely a strong indicator that they're not "aligned" with OpenAI anymore.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:49AM (#38347987)
Eh, seems like an ambitious read, and obviously if they actually wanted to give Sam leverage it would’ve required saying “I will leave if he’s not reinstated,” not a more generic statement of solidarity.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by moralestapia on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:10AM (#38348376)
Ok here it is, lol.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726598360277356775?s...

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ethanbond on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:06AM (#38349268)
Yeah this is much much less ambiguous than the Twitter things. At least answers my question of, "is there actually that much support for Altman?" Now the second question, much more important and still ambiguous IMO, is whether these people will actually resign to do this. The letter just says they "may" resign, which leaves really the last thing you want in an ultimatum like this: ambiguity.
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