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Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive::The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I am so confused.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

TL;DR; The board basically caved to the demands of the 500+ employees that penned and signed a letter telling them to reinstate Sam Altman and disband the current board.

In addition to reinstating him, most of the board is "quitting".

In this case, the employees won out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

But what about him going to work for Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

As others have replied, the MS thing is about them having a Plan B in case the board didn't reinstate him.

One way or another he's working for Microsoft here at the end of the day, Microsoft is just making sure they keep him gainfully employed within their control. Their move to hire him was covering their bases.

If the board were to reinstate him, like it has, then MS can rescind their offer and allow him to join the Open AI CEO position again.

Either way, MS didn't want to lose Sam is all this says.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Microsoft owns a major share, not to be confused with a majority share, of the stock, he is going to work for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

He is working for Microsoft as be already has been. 🤭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was more “on the table” if he wasn’t reinstated.

I also suspect there were some inaccuracies in the reporting and headlines around that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I definitely got the impression that they had already hired him. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

same, didn't all this drama just happen yesterday? We'll have to wait a few months for the doc/drama to come out.