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1. 700 out of 770 OpenAI employees, including Ilya Sutskever, sign letter demanding board to resign
Ilya earlier apologized for having voted for Altmanās firing, prompting Elon to ask questions
Ilya told employees the firing was not motivated by AI safety reasons
Weird explanations given by Ilya: āOne explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project. The other was that Altman allegedly gave two board members different opinions about a member of personnel.ā
Prediction markets are not too sure:
45% odds of Sam Altman returning: Manifold Markets.
Ilya flipped after Greg Brockmanās wife Anna cried and pleaded.
āIntense discussionsā to unify staff: company memo sent late Mon.
Anthropic was approached about merger, CEO offer.
Former GitHub CEO, Scale AI founder declined CEO role.
Thrive, Khosla, Tiger continue to push for Altmanās return.
Even Microsoft CEO Nadella is OK with Altman returning.
Lawsuit being considered.
Salesforceās Benioff offers OpenAI staff to match pay.
Eight Sleep data shows +27% SF residents getting <5h of sleep.
Vinod Khosla criticizes boardās āreligion of āeffective altruism.āā
Our view: this episode shows how OpenAIās dominance is not as strong as those of monopolies like Google Search
We wouldnāt expect this panic if some top Google Search leaders left to start their own search engines. In fact, some have tried.
Google Searchās tech advantage is a result of decades of development and of mixing great search models (text, images, maps, snippets, etc.).
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