Really, sort yourselves out.
This veiled tweet stuff is just drama queens being dramatic for the sake of it at this point.
I care what happens to openAI … but at this point I give literally zero fucks what people are tweeting and what it may / may not / according some insider / outsider / person close to it who renames nameless might mean or not mean.
Sam tweeting “I <3 openAI” is not HN news worthy content.
These are the people leading the AI revolution? The thing that could potentially upend our entire civilization? A bunch of ninnying brats kicking each other out of a club? Oy vey. We’re fucked.
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-ended-with-mud...
> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.
> Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends and investors about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.
Maybe a deal actually went through? Or he’s referring to the resignations?
OTOH, "sources close to Altman" saying that that is happening to the media just says that people close to Altman (quite likely acting as proxies for Altman) want it to be seen that way.
> Maybe a deal actually went through?
Or maybe he is expressing his positive feelings for the team in the hope of provoking some reciprocation from OpenAI workers to exert pressure on the board to make the thing his camp is saying is happening actually happen, or, if negotiations are actually happening, to make them more likely to be resolved in his favor.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-bo...
If there was a deal, he wouldn't have tweeted it this way.
Who knows. But definitely a power move to turn up the heat to get good wills from the crowd
But, what do I, or anyone except the people involved, know.
OTOH, the tweet sounds/read weird. Is he trying to recruit folks for his next venture.
Also, I see this Tweet by Altman:
> if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares
What does that mean?
The golden rule. The people with the gold make the rules, and Microsoft has poured mountains of capital into the company. For their board to make an extremely consequential move like they did without consulting their benefactors was the height of hubris.
Merely being forced to resign would be merciful, I half expect Satya to find some way to have them thrown in prison.
Counted 52 OpenAI employees supporting @sama with more rolling in by the minute
https://twitter.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/17261100249827369...
If enough yeses at openai, sama has plenty of leverage for coming back or starting up.
Now when they adhere to their mission statement and valued they get totally overrun by silicon valley tech bros.
The money/profit leg of OpenAI seems to be in actual control.
Money talks.
