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Altman's value is in business, how does bringing him to Microsoft to lead a research team help?
by osti 3y ago
Altman's value is in business, how does bringing him to Microsoft to lead a research team help?
- dorkwood 3y agoHe can court developers he has existing relationships with.
- osti 3y agoHow many is that gonna be? 20% of the devs would be a generous estimate imo.
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- dorkwood 3y agoAccording to the latest developments, "nearly 500 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the startup's board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO". That seems like it's probably higher than your 20% estimate. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...
- caycep 3y agoMaybe some will come out of loyalty. But then again, when you look at the choice of becoming a MS employee vs. being poached by FAIR, Google Brain or Deepmind, it's no guarantee all 500 will come over to follow the sales guys.
- dudeinhawaii 3y agoMany of them game from Google. Furthermore, if the choice is "create AI that no one ever uses" vs "create AI that people use" then it's a no-brainer to go with Microsoft. Compute + products + research freedom.