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Today I learned there are a large group of "EA"s (Effective Altruists) who are composed of millionaires and people in high positions of power.
These people believe it is their duty to act as the ‘gatekeepers’ of AI and prevent regular people from have useful or powerful AI. They want to destroy the open source AI movement and any company that is willing to allow regular people access to powerful AI.
Microsoft really showing their muscle with how they handled the situation here.
The whole thing proved open source in generative AI is more necessary than ever.
I also find it way more fun as a bonus. Not dealing with a website that’s down all the time, or controls your model’s output in ways you can’t change, or steals your data… feels a lot nicer to work with other AIs in those aspects.
This is going to be a solid Netflix miniseries on two years. I am cheering for the team at OpenAI. There is no victory in stagnation and no honor fearing the unknown. Full steam ahead folks. And bring on GPT5 already!
Of course this is an ASI playing with them
It was definitely around the point in which the employees said they were ready to bail and Microsoft said they had spaces open that the double back became necessary.
As shareholders who held some opinions so strongly that they fired the CEO has definitely not a position you want to be in.
It’s definitely really intriguing to think about someone firing a CEO. Like what could possibly be considered too far when companies like Blizzard actively defend sexual harassment.
Basically means the people have spoken and it’s out of the hands of the shareholders and in the hands of the CEO whatever he got fired for.
or IS he? find out next time… on the wheel of tech
Why didn’t MS keep him and why did he even go back?
As Nadella spelled out. It doesn’t matter to him whether Altman is in Microsoft or OpenAI. It’s pretty much the same to Microsoft. OpenAI is well in Microsoft’s orbit. It’s defacto a Microsoft Company. Analyst have even referred to it as Microsoft’s AI research lab. Since that’s basically what it is. Which is what I heard is the reason that the old board staged the coup. Since they they thought that Altman was too close to Microsoft.
So to MS, it doesn’t matter if he’s in Microsoft’s external AI dev lab or an internal one. It probably helps that he’s at the external one with the regulators. With Microsoft’s history of being hassled due to anti-trust by various governments, it probably helps that it’s kept at OpenAI.
As for why Altman went back, it’s his company. He built it. It’s his baby. Why wouldn’t he go back? Why did Job go back to Apple?
I hope Microsoft gets some antitrust action on this, the whole thing seems like it was an antitrust violation, basically Microsoft acquiring OpenAI without doing it on paper to get around required regulatory approvals.
FYI if you set language to international English then almost/none of the bloatware gets installed. Have to switch later to be able to connect to MS store.
Toner held firm in her belief that Altman shouldn’t be at the helm of OpenAI after Sutskever reversed course, and said during those initial reinstatement discussions that because the company charter charges its board with creating AI that “benefits all of humanity,” it was more consistent with that mission that the company be destroyed in Altman’s absence than see him as its chief executive again.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/openai-board-apparently-seething-rage-195257117.html
Wow, so this bitch wanted to bring the whole company down rather than allow Sam Altman back on. Unbelievable. EA advocates can walk the plank.
It’s only Wednesday. CZ from Binance will probably be CEO by Friday.
Weekend of the long knives ✅