Everyone's talking about power moves by Satya but it's a net loss for SamA no matter how you look at it. Having a senior position at Microsoft with public equity is good for someone climbing the corporate ladder but surely SamA could've started his own venture and outshined OAI and results from Microsoft's AAI division combined. Don't understand why he chose to join Microsoft. #openai #tech
Who says it’s beneficial for Sam?
He's popularly known to be a deal maker. He wouldn't have made this deal if he didn't benefit from it. I find it hard to believe.
Running a new company from the ground up could be lucrative in $, but tough in this hyper competitive world. Microsoft provides that shell and dude wasn't after 💰 even in OAI, looks like he didn't opt for equity when he had a choice.
The best outcome for Sama is to get reinstated as CEO with a new board. Period.
Correction: A board on 'his terms'
He's no longer constrained by a non-profit board, is likely bringing hundreds of the most talented AI employees with him, and can still have huge influence over OpenAI. Huge win for Sam
He's not. Ilya, who was the brain behind GPT was left behind. 'Talented engineers' at OpenAI moved fast to ship products, unlikely they can at msft
Maybe you can notice the fact that this dude has never started anything successful in his past He has always been parachuted in.
I agree and he could've shopped around - Google, Meta or NVIDIA would've gladly taken him with a higher pay package or position than msft is offering him. There's something that happened we aren't aware of
Meh startup in early YC class. Daddy PG gave him ground floor job at the startup gigafactory, during one of the most tremendous bull runs in history. YC mafia gets together with Paypal mafia to start OpenAI. Sam, with most to gain and nothing more tempting outside the YC bubble, ascends to CEO (who else in the crew wanted to be CEO of a nonprofit?). Sam gets the most impressive AI demo ever and raises money on it. Tries to execute regulatory capture and other boomer schemes. Gets out boomered. Lands as vassal under boomer kings, awaiting some shit to materialize in his network at peak hype.
> surely SamA could’ve started his own venture to outshine OAI and Microsoft No he couldn’t 😂 otherwise he would have. He evaluated his options and took the best one he could assess at the time.
Yes, that's what I'm trying to understand. Why did he feel joining msft is better than starting his own? There were investors throwing themselves at SamA on twitter
Rebuilding OpenAI from scratch will take half a decade even if you reassemble the entire workforce together. Sure, MSFT can offer Azure again but OpenAI has customers and they will keep attracting others to join. So even if OpenAI’a progress is reset by a whole year, they are still ahead. Even though 700 people threaten to leave, but I can reassure tou not all of them will leave on day 1 and only maybe a dozen of them will get immediate hire from MSFT. Everyone else will have to wait for an offer (which will likely be no and have to go through interview). You are not acquiring a company, so bringing in people at mass without proper interview pipeline is pretty bad idea. For Sam Altman, his only objective now is to be the face of AI which is just like Sam BF. Watch where you walk, Sam.
I don’t buy that take. MSFT will provide plenty of access to customers, and how many of OpenAI’s are now second guessing based on the current chaos? Who would stick around knowing that all the best people left? Lastly, it sounded like the folks who are moving to MSFT are guaranteed offers with same comp, so I expect those 700 will actually do it unless the board gives in and Sam goes back.
Satya had tweeted in a comment that this was going to be structured as a subsidiary like LinkedIn, GitHub with plenty of autonomy. This would not be a division within Microsoft. Satya knows Sam operates with extreme urgency and the only way to provide him that environment is by having him operate as the CEO of a subsidiary with unlimited access to Azure along with none of the boardroom drama to deal with. It is a very good outcome for Altman IMO.
That had to be part of the deal else Sam would've walked. GitHub, WhatsApp, Waymo and other subsidiaries still have to adhere to safety rules, privacy regulations and set quarterly or yearly goals all of which blocks features from shipping quickly. Boardroom drama is now replaced with Msft bureaucracy. Sam knows this so there had to be something more than freedom to make independent decisions that was negotiated part of the deal to make it appealing for him.
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He needs the GPUs. Our biggest bottleneck is that. We aren’t a hardware company and suck at it
Agreed and NVIDIA would've been a wiser move. I'm sure NVIDIA would've welcomed him with open arms.
But putting GPUs aside, do you think Sam can possibly build a new company from the start that can beat OpenAI?