Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive::The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.
I am so confused.
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
Submitted 7 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/technology/openai-sam-altman-returns.html
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tyfud@lemmy.one 7 months ago
TL;DR; The board basically caved to the demands of the 500+ employees that penned and signed a letter telling them to reinstate Sam Altman and disband the current board.
In addition to reinstating him, most of the board is “quitting”.
In this case, the employees won out.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But what about him going to work for Microsoft?
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 7 months ago
same, didn’t all this drama just happen yesterday? We’ll have to wait a few months for the doc/drama to come out.
Oxidant2023@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What a shit show
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What a bunch of fucking clowns.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s amazing how quickly these developments are occurring. My daily news podcasts are only behind a day and yet they seem so out of date as a result at the pace of these changes.
At the end of the day do we really know what prompted this ouster yet?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 7 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said on X that he was “encouraged by the changes to OpenAI board,” calling it a “first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance.”
A person close to the board’s deliberations on Tuesday said that Mr. D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner pressed for certain concessions from Mr. Altman, including an independent investigation into his leadership of OpenAI.
The ouster kicked off efforts by Mr. Altman, 38, his allies in the tech industry and OpenAI’s employees to force the company’s board to bring him back.
But in a head-spinning development just hours later, Microsoft said that Mr. Altman, Mr. Brockman and others would be joining the company to start a new advanced artificial intelligence lab.
Most of OpenAI’s more than 700 employees signed a letter telling the board they would walk out and follow Mr. Altman to Microsoft if he wasn’t reinstated, putting the future of the start-up in jeopardy.
Four board members — Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI founder; Mr. D’Angelo; Ms. Toner, a director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; and Ms. McCauley, an entrepreneur and computer scientist — had initially decided to push Mr. Altman out.
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Gork@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The Board of Directors really messed up with all this lol
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is he also still at Microsoft? Is this that overemployment everyone was talking about last week?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 7 months ago
One of the articles yesterday stated he wasn’t at Microsoft yet. The MS CEO said he could either be reinstated or start an AI initiative at MS
Apparently he’s a big part of why MS bought 49% of OpenAI