Wednesday, November 22nd 2023
Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO, Days After Board's Decision for Removal
Over the past few days, the OpenAI drama has continued to give more details about the relationship between OpenAI's board, employees, and even the executive layer of the company. As we have covered previously, the OpenAI board on last Friday, November 17, fired the company's CEO, Sam Altman. Over the weekend, Mr. Altman was approached by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and offered to lead the AI unit within the Redmond giant; however, the employment was not yet finalized. Today, we learned that Sam Altman has reached an agreement with the board to return to OpenAI along with Greg Brockman and many other OpenAI employees.
After starting a wave of posts on the X/Twitter platform saying, "OpenAI is nothing without its people," the employees of OpenAI signed a letter requesting the board to bring back Sam Altman. With the deal now happening, employees are expected to continue working for OpenAI under Sam Altman's leadership. The new initial board of OpenAI is composed of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Sam Altman said in a post on X: "i love openai, and everything i've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya's support, i'm looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft." While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella added "We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners."
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OpenAI (X/Twitter)
After starting a wave of posts on the X/Twitter platform saying, "OpenAI is nothing without its people," the employees of OpenAI signed a letter requesting the board to bring back Sam Altman. With the deal now happening, employees are expected to continue working for OpenAI under Sam Altman's leadership. The new initial board of OpenAI is composed of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. Sam Altman said in a post on X: "i love openai, and everything i've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya's support, i'm looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft." While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella added "We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners."
41 Comments on Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO, Days After Board's Decision for Removal
'Look, I do this differently, its actually wrong, but I can brand myself like that'
I know, where is my puke bucket material.
The spin at work here is so complex, we'll never figure it out I reckon.
All it truly confirms is one thing; regulate the shit out of these ratholes.
They influence society far too much to go unregulated as they are. We missed the boat with social media, let's not repeat that. We regulate banks as they are critical infrastructure, but the social discourse is far more critical. We need some form of checks and balances here, I don't even know exactly what or how, but it being complicated doesn't mean its not necessary.
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Well this is really a shitshow and only shows how done this whole industry is.......also come on, just say the truth that it is all about the money and no ethics yadda....
If you bought that anything Theil, Musk, or any Libertarian ever said about "actually, it's for the public good" than you are a sucker. I'd rather have AI under google, Microsoft, Amazon, or apple than some shady group of Theil's and Musk's. As bad as those four tech companies are they at least in some way answer to their consumers and don't have CEO's babbling about how democracy needs to end and we need to create digital human beings while plotting crackpot trips to Mars and schemes to make the super rich immortal.
We don't know how this will end. The US military (Navy) developed the first computers back in WW2 and the military created the internet as well. Those turned out just fine.
It makes one wonder how carefully TPU readers have been following this drama. Admittedly the media has done a piss poor job covering this circus.
It is almost as if this whole episode was written by AI.
:):p:D
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