The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.

Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive::The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    10 months ago

    Is he also still at Microsoft? Is this that overemployment everyone was talking about last week?

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
      29·
      10 months ago

      Bro’s just like me, working two jobs just to pay rent!

      /s

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      10 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

    • Tyfud@lemmy.oneEnglish
      26·
      10 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.

        • Tyfud@lemmy.oneEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          As others have replied, the MS thing is about them having a Plan B in case the board didn’t reinstate him.

          One way or another he’s working for Microsoft here at the end of the day, Microsoft is just making sure they keep him gainfully employed within their control. Their move to hire him was covering their bases.

          If the board were to reinstate him, like it has, then MS can rescind their offer and allow him to join the Open AI CEO position again.

          Either way, MS didn’t want to lose Sam is all this says.

        • TheColonel@reddthat.comEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          That was more “on the table” if he wasn’t reinstated.

          I also suspect there were some inaccuracies in the reporting and headlines around that.

        • Gregorech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Microsoft owns a major share, not to be confused with a majority share, of the stock, he is going to work for them.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 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.

  • WashedOver@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    10 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?

  • Daniel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    This entire thing is super confusing… and, I might have missed a lot of things, but it kinda seems to be the board was right? They seemed inexperienced, but they still seemed to be capable of working in the best interest of the company’s vision (and doing so).

    Anyway, please fill me in if I’ve missed something crucial.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    10 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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