Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

The AI-risk community has also learned that novel corporate-governance structures cannot constrain executives who are hell-bent on acceleration. That was the big lesson of OpenAI's boardroom fiasco. “The governance model at OpenAI was supposed to prevent financial pressures from overrunning things,” Ord said. “It didn't work. The people who were me

How Google missed this moment is not a simple matter of a blind spot. It’s a case of an incumbent being so careful about its business, reputation, and customer relationships that it refused to release similar, more powerful tech. And it’s far from the end of the story.

• OpenAI currently offers, by far, the best product experience of any AI chatbot assistant.


• There is no technical moat in this field, and so OpenAI is the epicenter of an investment bubble.