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Re:Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change by genman on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:48PM (#38357224)
And? They don't own the non profit part of Open AI, they have not invested anything into it.

Why he thinks that he has authority to dictate how the non profit should be structured? I don't think he has.

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Re:Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change by TaylorAlexander on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:55PM (#38357278)
He doesn't "have the authority to dictate" but he does "have an extremely influential position and his opinion is potentially very important to the non profit".
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Re:Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change by summerlight on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:02PM (#38357341)
The non-profit part won't ever work without Microsoft's finance/infrastructure. Satya might not have nominal power on the board, but he definitely has a power to make OpenAI miserable and proved it over the weekend.
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Re:Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change by rrdharan on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:01PM (#38357331)
The Levine newsletter explains this very explicitly.

They have no authority on paper. They have plenty of authority in practice by virtue of exercising their power/leverage inherent in OpenAI’s dependence on them for compute resources.

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