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by samspenc 3y ago
Ilya signed a letter asking 4 members of the board to resign, including Ilya himself. He even posted a public apology for his actions on X https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028 Yes, this is probab
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by samspenc 3y ago
If Sam had left OpenAI on his own accord to do this, certainly. Since the board fired him and basically nuked his best-effort plan to return - I highly doubt that OpenAI's legal team has anything of substance here. Even if they do, I w
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by samspenc 3y ago
Founder of https://stratechery.com/ More about him and his blog at https://stratechery.com/stratechery-plus/
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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman Will Join Microsoft(blogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
"Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI’s
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by samspenc 3y ago
Not at this point, they've already gotten $13B from Microsoft, and reportedly making $1.3B in revenue in annualized revenue, with increasing growth. OpenAI is not hurting for money anymore.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Confirmed by a second news source https://www.semafor.com/article/11/17/2023/openai-board-fire... "Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, was blindsided by Altman’s firing, Axios reported
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by samspenc 3y ago
I wonder how many people want to really leave right now after this drama, but will stay due to their golden handcuffs and competitive packages. That number, unfortunately, I guess we will never know (probably slow attrition once their vests
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by samspenc 3y ago
There are now 4 people left in the OpenAI non-profit board, after the ouster of both Sam and Greg today. 3 of the 4 remaining are virtual unknowns, and they control the fate of OpenAI, both the non-profit and the for-profit. Insane.
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by samspenc 3y ago
+1, the parent comment was helpful, tbh today I found out that 4 board members on OpenAI, 3 of whom I never heard of till this news, have so much power over this organization that has been making headline news for most of the past year.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Well the first sentence in this news piece adds a lot more color to the official press release and stands out on its own: "Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute b
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by samspenc 3y ago
> spin-off of some sketchy for-profit AI "university" deal called "Singularity University". Wow, that university rings some bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Group#Controversie... &
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by samspenc 3y ago
Sam Altman had no equity in OpenAI https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-... He confirmed it verbally as well in his May 2023 hearing in Congress https://twitter.com/thes
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At least nothing public until just now with this development
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Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable(trstringer.com)
4 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
"We used the AI to check the AI"
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GitHub Octoverse: the state of open source and AI in 2023(github.blog)
1 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
I wonder how much they charged and made in ticket revenue. They couldn't even hire stage and lighting professionals to determine the right amount of UV and lighting at a conference hosting hundreds or thousands of folks?!?! > On soc
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by samspenc 3y ago
Sorry this is a dup, I see this was already posted and on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38166098
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NASA discovers oldest ever black hole(news.sky.com)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
2D and 3D animation. I've started with 3D and Blender and Unreal Engine, and following along with Youtube tutorials on the same. Still very much a hobbyist, haven't produced much that is worth showing, but am passionate about this
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by samspenc 3y ago
I remember reading this quote before and had to search for it, it's from Arthur C Clarke's 'The Nine Billion Names of God' (the very last line in the short story) https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_
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Stars have vanished without a trace. where did they go?(iflscience.com)
24 points by samspenc 3y ago|16 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
My first thought when I saw the company name was the Pebble Watch as well.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah my guess is that $120 million revenue is likely breakeven at this point, probably being run over by salaries and even more compute / GPU / hardware costs to run this expensive LLM service.
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by samspenc 3y ago
My guess is that the main parts of the game are physics (collisions etc) and the scoring system, so that part wasn't too surprising to me. I was pleasantly surprised at the visual quality, I knew Midjourney could produce quality graphi
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by samspenc 3y ago
The headline numbers: - Net sales increased 13% to $143.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $127.1 billion in third quarter 2022. - Operating income increased to $11.2 billion in the third quarter, compared with $2.5 billio
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Amazon Announces Q3 Results(press.aboutamazon.com)
6 points by samspenc 3y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Vercel makes most of its revenue through its PaaS platform - which supports NextJS first-class, and is their recommend solution for hosting NextJS apps.
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Generative AI: get ready to multiply your Technical Debt(blog.metamirror.io)
3 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments

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