No, I am not simply unaware. I said my understanding, which appears to be wrong. Thanks for the details. However, I am still confused on which employees of which company. There is the non-profit OpenAI and for-profit OpenAI. Are these articles talking about everything or just the for-profit branch?

I still wager that things would have been different had the board clearly stated their reasons. Doesn't make any sense that they did it months later. The signing of the petition seems mostly group think and political. I would guess that the majority of employees would have followed through.

Lastly, I still can't say any of this makes any sense. Why did the employees even care about Altman? It still seems all very strange to leave your job for someone who doesn't seem to have ever said anything meaningful.