🚨NEWS: Microsoft signals to walk away from negotiations with OpenAI > openai plans to convert into a for-profit company to raise capital and future IPO > but needs microsoft’s approval > microsoft has IP rights to all oai models until 2030 and 20 % revenue share > oai wants to waive this AGI clause to end microsoft’s IP rights and swap 20% reve... See more

The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that.

Thiel was right. By the end of February 2000, the two sides were looking at a 55/45 merger. Levchin was still unhappy but told Thiel that he would reluctantly accept it. That was the case until, on a visit to X’s offices, Musk told Levchin that Confinity was getting “a f**king deal.”

“My blood just boiled, and so I thought, it’s off ,” Levchin remem... See more