And John Schulman, and Peter Deng are out already. Yet the company is still shipping, like no other. Recent multimodal integrations and benchmarks of o1 are outstanding.
If executives / high level architects / researchers are working on this quarter's features something is very wrong. The higher you get the more ahead you need to be working, C-level departures should only have an impact about a year down the line, at a company of this size.
Big fan of Greg, and I think the motivation behind AGI is sound here. Even what we have now is a fantastic tool, if people decide to use it.
Meta, Anthropic, Google, and others all are shipping state of the art models.
I'm not trying to be dismissive of OpenAI's work, but they are absolutely not the only company shipping very large foundation models.
this is the model that says there are 2 Rs in "strawberry"?
(Together with 'Is a hot dog a sandwich?', which I confess I will have to ask it now.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
See Non-dualistic meaning section.
Edit: oh dang, I wanted to make the “or” joke so badly that I missed the option to have zero sandwiches.
It's a very relevant fact that Greg Brockman recently left on his own volition.
Greg was aligned with Sam during the coup. So, the fact that Greg left lends more credence to the idea that Murati is leaving on her own volition.
Except that isn’t true. He has not resigned from OpenAI. He’s on extended leave until the end of the year.
That could become an official resignation later, and I agree that that seems more likely than not. But stating that he’s left for good as of right now is misleading.
>> Yet the company is still shipping, like no other.
this is factually wrong. Just today Meta (which I despise) shipped more than openAI in a long time.
Really? Anthropic seems to be popping off right now.
Kagi isn’t exactly in the AI space, but they ship features pretty frequently.
OpenAI is shipping incremental improvements to its chatgpt product.
- Prompt Cache, 90% savings on large system prompts for 5 mins of calls. This is amazing
- Contexual RAG, while not ground breaking idea, is important thinking and method for better vector retrieval
I don't see it for OpenAI, I do see it for the competition. They have shipped incremental improvements, however, they are watering down their current models (my guess is they are trying to save on compute?). Copilot has turned into garbage and for coding related stuff, Claude is now better than gpt-4.
Honestly, their outlook is bleak.
I understand why they are doing it, but honestly if they cancel GPT-4, many people will just cancel their subscription.
You also give them some distance in time from the drama so the two appear unconnected under cursory inspection.
Now that she's seen exactly what prompted the previous board to fire Altman, she fires herself because she understands their decision now.
Ms. Murati wrote a private memo to Mr. Altman raising questions about his management and also shared her concerns with the board. That move helped to propel the board’s decision to force him out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executi...
It should be no surprise if Sam Altman wants executives who opposed his leadership, like Mira and Ilya, out of the company. When you're firing a high-level executive in a polite way, it's common to let them announce their own departure and frame it the way they want.