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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.
We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
OpenAItwitter.com
the fact that Sam had no equity was a red flag whether or not you like him — the governance structure of OpenAI has always been fishy
kepanotwitter.com"According to people familiar with the board's thinking, members had grown so untrusting of Altman that they felt it necessary to double-check nearly everything he told them," the WSJ report said. The sources said it wasn't a single incident that led to the firing, "but a consistent, slow erosion of trust over time that made them increasingly... See more
Jon Brodkin • Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board
In an interview with Forbes in January, D’Angelo argued that one of OpenAI’s strengths was its capped-profit business structure and nonprofit control. “There’s no outcome where this organization is one of the big five technology companies,” D’Angelo said. “This is something that’s fundamentally different, and my hope is that we can do a lot more... See more
These Are The People That Fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event hosted November 6, with Sam front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products was... See more
Benj Edwards • Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
My guess is that watching the keynote would have made the mismatch between OpenAI's mission and the reality of its current focus impossible to ignore. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that cringed during it.
I think the mismatch between mission and reality was impossible to fix.
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