To Reboot your OpenAI Company press CTRL + ALTman + DELETE
So get this straight: OpenAi decides to become a for-profit company now
The CTO, head of research, and VP of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced
Sam Altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day
How it started …
How it’s going …
And what comes Next …
See below some posts by the community to get the pulse of the situation:
GPT-5 Also decided to leave OpenAI!
Sam Altman as a Rogue AGI
“And after the autonomous agent was found to be deceptive and manipulative, OpenAI tried shutting it down, only to discover that the agent had disabled the off-switch.” (reference to the failed Boardroom Coup)
OpenAI’s creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he’d stay durably aligned to those goals.
Sam Altman claiming no financial motive for his OpenAI role
(*Spontaneous round of applause*)
2023: Sam Altman claims no financial motive for his OpenAI role.
— Ori Nagel ⏸️ (@ygrowthco) September 27, 2024
*Spontaneous round of applause* pic.twitter.com/LgvRjudgVd
This did not age well
Sam said …
- Sam said the board should be able to fire him, then…
- Sam said he’d give 20% of compute for superalignment, then…
- Sam said AI regulation was important, then…
- Sam said checks and balances on his power were important, then…
- Sam said the safest way to build ASI was to start now, before a compute overhang,
then started raising trillions to build the compute himself… - Sam said for safety reasons, OpenAI should be controlled by a non-profit, free from commercial pressures, then…
- Sam said he wasn’t doing it for the money, then…
- Sam said… ….
The bottomline
- The nonprofit — a for profit.
- Profit caps — lifted.
- Coup plotters — dealt with.
- Mask — off.
Scoop: Sam Altman is planning to take equity in OpenAI for the first time.
It’s part of a corporate restructure which will also see the non-profit which currently governs OpenAI turn into a minority shareholder.
Reuters Article
It can be lonely being the head of the family
Lol…but it’s truly weird…they all started together
For some reason this reminded me of :
This is the classic example from 1930 of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. The original photo was made in 1930. Yezhov was executed in 1940, so all photos of Stalin (he liked this one) after that airbrushed out Yezhov.
