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I'm going to throw the theory out there that Sam leaked/sold the full GPT models to Microsoft (or another competitor). A lot of other theories don't match beca
by Sebb767 3y ago
I'm going to throw the theory out there that Sam leaked/sold the full GPT models to Microsoft (or another competitor).
A lot of other theories don't match because the board was in an extreme hurry to get him out (voting him out in the middle of the night, not even waiting for markets to close to announce it), must have proof of serious misconduct and the need to immediately distance themselves from Sam (otherwise the language would not be as bridge-burning as it is) and a major financial or technical failure seems unlikely, since the CFO remains and the CTO was even promoted to interim CEO - they seem to be trusted, still, so it must have been something Sam did on his own.
Leaking/Selling the full models matches, as this would violate OpenAIs non-profit terms, would be something Sam could do without the C-Suite being implicated and (given the data contained in the training set) might even be legal hot water, justifying this drastic reaction and immediate distancing.
- aluminum96 3y agoThis can't be right -- Microsoft must already have GPT-4 weights, because they have an in-house fine tune to power Bing Creative.
- Sebb767 3y agoTrue, so it can't be this exact situation. Possibly he sold it including training data or gave access to another company? We'll see, but something in that direction still seems likely to me.
- jameyk 3y agoWhat about Humane recently announced AI Pin. Sam has a good chunk of equity in that company.
- ShamelessC 3y agoMicrosoft has had a contractual right to any of OpenAI’s GPT technologies since they first partnered.
- bredren 3y agoBeyond this: is it conceivable for Microsoft to enter an agreement of this scale without the due diligence that the board would be even remotely amenable?
- markus_zhang 3y agoIt might be a Chinese company. Pure speculation but considering APEC...
- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y agoThey waited for the Friday news dump to make the announcement, not clear exactly how much of a hurry it was.
- Sebb767 3y agoGiven the other comments in this thread, this vote was very recent, with Sam apparently not knowing of the situation yesterday. They haven't even updated their website, this page still describes Sam as CEO: https://openai.com/our-structure https://openai.com/our-structure With this apparent rush, I'd habour the guess that the situation just happened to unfold on a Friday and wasn't planned as such.
- sumedh 3y agoIf you do MBA 101 they literally teach you to disclose bad news on Friday, it was definitely planned.
- Sebb767 3y agoThere's a 1/7 chance it just happened to be a Friday; probably closer to 1/5, given that these things tend to happen on workdays. I get that this looks like a strange coincidence, but major shareholders just had minutes of warning and they released the news before market close, sending Microsofts stock crashing down. Had they had the time to wait until Friday, they would have had 30 more minutes. So unless they had some fun with shorts, this doesn't look like a planned out action at all.
- albert_e 3y agoMicrosoft is also having its annual conference Microsoft Ignite that ... just concluded today?
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- Manouchehri 3y agoMicrosoft already has the GPT models, that's how Azure OpenAI is a thing from what I understand. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/openai/data-privacy https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...
- hartator 3y ago> not even waiting for markets to close to announce it They are not a public company.