Isn’t this effectively an acquihire for $0
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch
Submitted 11 months ago by pegaux@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/openai-co-founders-sam-altman-and-greg-brockman-to-join-microsoft/
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riaplus8@lemm.ee 11 months ago
higgsone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pretty sure Sam and Greg got A LOT of money to get „convinced“ to start at Microsoft
PancakeLegend@kbin.social 11 months ago
Even if you start dreaming up ludicrous salaries/options, the cost to hire them would be only a fraction of the hit Microsoft would take in the market if not for this play. Satya could comfortably let them name their price and say yes to anything.
This hand was played well by Satya.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Truth. Though, OpenAI was valued around 80 billion, I’d be reasonably surprised if either of them was being offered a billion.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I dont understand why these guys taking another 9-5 job. They already have all the money in the world. Just go travel, enjoy life but no these guys want to be bound by a clock and a manager. Lol
Copernican@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Being a CEO for a company like this isn’t being “bound” to “the clock” of a “9 to 5 job.” It’s a lifestyle choice for sure, and an aspiration for an even greater lifestyle. But they aren’t bound.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
CEO has to report to the board. So technically “board” is the manager.
locuester@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Some people, me included, really love our work. It isn’t related to power (for me), just pure enjoyment.
Ithi@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Some people just want power and recognition which you don’t get if you just travel and enjoy life.
I could also so it being pretty exciting being at the forefront of a new technology and wanting to put all the things you’ve learned or been researching to use vs just quitting and feeling like you’re wasting that time you’ve put in. Probably doesn’t feel like a job if this is the case.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yea I know a guy at work, he been here from past 18 years. He starts at 7:30am and finishes after 6pm. At first I thought may be he’s working but now its been more than 1year. He genuinely enjoys sitting in the office. Poor fella is divorced and have no friends.
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Microsoft slept on phones and tablets, they are not sleeping on AI. And good! Software has always been Microsoft’s superpower.
gets the popcorn
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, good for them. Jury’s out on if that’s good for us regular schmucks
guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Spoiler: it’s not!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Software has always been Microsoft’s superpower
You mean buying software, right?
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Selling software.
Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OpenAI shot themselves in the legs with a 12-gauge shotgun when they fired Sam Altman.
Expect Microsoft Copilot to eclipse ChatGPT.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 11 months ago
Good to know Microsoft has no qualms with hiring someone being accused of raping their own sister..
Capitalism - no morals, only profit!
sederx@programming.dev 11 months ago
Was he convicted? Accusations are free to make
DessertStorms@kbin.social 11 months ago
They are, and less than 2% of accusations are actually false, so piss off with the "only accusations" bullshit as if it isn't at least a massive red banner of a flag.
vankappa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
could you elaborate on that?
Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 11 months ago
Regarding the alleged rape, in short: The sexual acts are not even explicitly stated and allegedly occurred when she was young enough to barely be able to remember or understand anything, she went decades without saying a word to anyone about it. Then they have a dispute over an inheritance, and a couple of years later when he becomes famous she publicly accuses him, without providing evidence or reporting him to the courts.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 11 months ago
I hate to link xitter, but here's her post
https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1710008424178581553?lang=en-GB
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping three days of intense discussions following the unexpected decision by OpenAI’s board to dismiss Altman.
Nadella said Altman and Brockman will be joined by “colleagues,” suggesting that Microsoft is also hiring many other people who left OpenAI over the weekend.
“We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success,” said Nadella, in what many tech entrepreneurs labelled as an example of “incredible execution.”
Nadella, whose firm has invested over $10 billion in OpenAI and acquired almost 50% ownership, said the Windows-maker remains committed to the startup.
The decision comes after a tumultuous weekend that saw Altman removed from his role at OpenAI by the organization’s board on Friday.
“The board had a chance to explain their drastic actions and they did not take it,” wrote Andrej Karpathy, a research scientist at OpenAI, on X.
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QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Didn’t take long for Sam. Huh.
kokesh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plot thickens
silencioso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So Microsoft is going to compete with themselves? (Microsoft owns 49% of openai)
sederx@programming.dev 11 months ago
“I play both sides so I always come out ahead”
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Back both horses and drop the one that loses the race.
silencioso@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The thing is that there many many horses in this race
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Same jacket, different pocket