> How important is Altman? How important were three senior scientists? Can they start their own company, raise funding, and overtake OpenAI in a few years? The

> How important is Altman? How important were three senior scientists? Can they start their own company, raise funding, and overtake OpenAI in a few years? The general opinion seems to be estimating this at far above 50% YES. I, personally would bet at 70% that this exactly what will happen. Unless some really damaging information becomes public about Altman, he will definitely have the strong reputation and credibility, definitely will be able to raise very significant funding, and the only expert in industry / research he definitely won’t be able to recruit would be Ilya Sutskever.