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Sacked OpenAI boss Sam Altman to join Microsoft - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. The greatest benefit to Microsoft here is now no competitors can hire him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am cautious to think he’s all that innovative, but rather was the figurehead. He might be able to poach the innovators though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I doubt he was magic on his own, but if a competitor hired him he would utilise his insider OpenAI knowledge to make day to day decisions that might help a competitor close the gap or supersede OpenAI. Better to pay him millions of dollars a year to keep that knowledge in house and deprive competitors of the opportunity.