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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • For something like this to happen is further proof that none of us have any clue what we’re doing. That includes leadership of one of the most important companies to have ever existed.

    I don’t know, seems to me the leadership team (who all sided with Sam) knows exactly what they are doing. It’s their board that’s out of touch.

    But, if you’re building something more than a wrapper, don’t put all your eggs in one basket, evaluate alternatives.


  • It’s still developing… But here’s the gist.

    - Sam got fired and Greg got demoted by the board

    - Greg quit

    - Mira the CTO named by the board as the interim CEO

    - Public outrage

    - Everyone assumed it was Ilya behind this, being a board member (and cofounder) himself and in the camp of precaution > commercialisation

    - A bunch of heart emoji tweets from OpenAI employees to show support for Sam and Greg, including Mira

    - It was reported Satya from Microsoft was pissed too, and is mediating the return of Sam

    - Sam was invited back to the OpenAI office to “negotiate”

    - The negotiation didn’t go well, the board appointed Emmett Shear, ex-Twitch cofounder and CEO, as the new interim CEO (replacing Mira)

    - Satya announces Sam, Greg and some OpenAI employees joining Microsoft

    - Ilya tweets an apology, the wording suggests he was only a participant, not the orchestrator of this shitshow, Sam tweets heart emojis back

    - Everyone now speculates it wasn’t Ilya who started the coup, but perhaps Adam, the board member, and CEO of Quora who has a conflict of interest (he’s building Poe, a competitor to ChatGPT)

    - 550 out of 700 OpenAI employees signed a letter demanding the resignation of the OpenAI board, notably Ilya also signed the letter (so he’s demanding his own resignation)

    I’m sure in a few hours/days there will be more drama/updates.