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Embrace, extend, extinguish. OpenAI needed Microsoft a lot more than they needed OpenAI. The playbook hasn't changed. They're the same they've always been. What's new is that it was significantly accelerated time frame this time. This kind of thing usually takes years, but OpenAI made it possible for it to happen in weeks.

Seems board severely underestimate the amount of friends Sam has

Microsoft no longer needs the current "openai" as a result

Yeah that's not true. Microsoft still needs their technology. At least until it can be replaced, but that will take time.

So far only a couple of key people have left. Hundreds of staff wrote in support of Sam and said they may leave. Considering the nature of startups a lot of knowledge is probably tribal and oral so whatever happens the openAI team and knowledge base will be fractured from this. It will probably take more than just a couple of months to get back on track, assuming there are no legal challenges either.

If this was a play by MS, I'm impressed. Reddit thinks tech bro Altman is some kind of hero and forgot all of his sketchy past projects and unfounded scifi hype. Its mind boggling. I think neither Altman nor the EA weirdos on the board have gotten enough scrutiny in the media, and certainly not on reddit.

You could definitely make a terminator film out of this.

Also the delay that development from MS will have for a bit will also mean that Google has some time to catchup to where ChatGPT was when this all happened. It was claimed they were a year behind OpenAI tech so that is also a major blow against them as well. I don't expect MS to stop or to really be damaged by this news but it will enable Google to catch up a bit more. There's also a benefit in that since it means more competition on this area for consumers/companies.

Altman is just a CEO, they can be replaced. He disrespected the ethical concerns of the OpenAI board in a major way, firing him was the least they could do. People who want to push AI tech without safety nets need to educate themselves urgently, they're the same idiots who claim that climate change can be "solved" with tech. It can't and there are very physical and mathematical reasons for it.

MS will gut them and eventually acquire them.

Microsoft isn't going anywhere faster than their legal departement can follow. And that departement is going to have it's hands full with this.

7 years of code development and 500+ new employees that you have to be sure isn't using that code from their former employee.

Good luck to everything

I'm late to the thread sorry if you've moved on but I'm confused about one of your points. It was my understanding Sam is/was the one beating the drum for safety restrictions, why is he now suddenly "no longer held back"?

You rarely end up on top by accident. Seeing how MS won and is being painted as the victim/ savior ontop of it... they might have somehow instigated the whole thing.