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shrubble on Nov 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI's chaos does not add up

It seems like a feint by Sam Altman, to justify commercializing what was produced.

-Start up a non-profit, grow to the point of doing something useful

-Find a willing buyer to fund it further (MSFT)

After some time, you really prove out your business model and your special sauce.

Now you realize that the non-profit is standing in the way of you know, a lot of profit...

-Actions are taken to capitalize on this (discusson on hardware, other things possible)

-Chaos + envy/pride/sins of man deliberately caused

-Board reacts under the assumed environment(non profit) instead of the actual environment(there is lots of money to be had)

-Move into more profitable position

psbp on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

You don't understand how much value was lost, even if OpenAI perfectly migrates over to Microsoft (it will be messy). Sam had no incentive to not continue with the existing OpenAI structure.

datadrivenangel on Nov 20, 2023 | [–]

Sam could have made hundreds of millions of dollars potentially, that's a big incentive to not continue.

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