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It's because of Satya. He offered to move Sam and whoever supported him under the Microsoft wing with an independent for-profit company with the same access to
by threeseed 2y ago
It's because of Satya.
He offered to move Sam and whoever supported him under the Microsoft wing with an independent for-profit company with the same access to unlimited compute that they needed to train their models.
With this looming over their heads the employees/shareholders ultimately had to choose between (a) staying at OpenAI without Sam, having the company lose their deal with Microsoft and likely folding, (b) moving to Microsoft with Sam or (c) allowing Sam to come back.
- tsunamifury 2y agoAnd now it looks like they will fold under Sam and Microsoft still will be able to scoop up the talent and tech.
- Centigonal 2y agoThe Matt Levine column on "Who Controls OpenAI?" becomes more and more relevant each day. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-who-controls-openai https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-...
- disqard 2y agoIt looks like he made a bunch of people dance, not just Google...
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y agoAlso because Altman’s deal with microsoft allowed them the IP to really take everything if this happened, rather than starting from scratch as a new company/division.