> People like Sam and Satya expect people to be self-interested and not tear everything down.
Bingo. I think there is also a factor of this being a non-profit board, where the board is not beholden to shareholders in the same way. For example, you presumably have no standing to sue a NP BOD for breach of fiduciary duty vs. a corporate BOD. I don't know the intricacies of the laws surrounding this, but I expect that the none-Microsoft investors in OpenAI who are seeing their investments dissolve in real time are probably asking their lawyers that right now.
Adam D'Angelo seems like someone acting in their own self-interest and that of his company, Quora. The move to bring in Emmett Shear at the 11th hour seems like a move right out of his playbook. What exactly does Adam stand to gain from a weakened or destroyed OpenAI?
Adam stands to gain the most from a weakened OpenAPI product. Not from OpenAPI outright stopping commercialization, but stopping it just enough to still have API but not products like GPT store and agents.
It's not about Quora, which is a shit show either way, but it's about his AI chat company, Poe. Poe started customizable AI agents and also started their own store for AI agents - they were the first to do this. And Poe uses OpenAI API for this, they are essentially a wrapper company.
When OpenAI announced custom agents and store on DevDay, it was a fundamental threat to Poe, and a very strong conflict of interest for Adam. You also hear from everyone that things started getting sour after DevDay. I'm pretty sure Adam played his part in the shit show with his own motives.
Makes it sound like they fired the wrong board-member. But it feels to this complete outsider like that board was totally disfunctional, even before the departure of Altman and Brockman.
I'm an LLM sceptic; I don't think these models are a route to intelligence, artifical or otherwise. I think that means I'm at odds with the four board-members that did the deed. But as far as I can see, there wasn't one member of that board, Altman and Brockman included, that was fit to run a whelk-stall, let alone a big company.
It feels like a weird divorce to me, where one side of the couple wants kids and the other side wants to party and go to Tahiti every couple months.
Before this, they were able to make things work - until someone said the quiet things out loud, and now they’re clearly going their separate ways while going ‘wtf just happened’.
Bingo. I think there is also a factor of this being a non-profit board, where the board is not beholden to shareholders in the same way. For example, you presumably have no standing to sue a NP BOD for breach of fiduciary duty vs. a corporate BOD. I don't know the intricacies of the laws surrounding this, but I expect that the none-Microsoft investors in OpenAI who are seeing their investments dissolve in real time are probably asking their lawyers that right now.
Adam D'Angelo seems like someone acting in their own self-interest and that of his company, Quora. The move to bring in Emmett Shear at the 11th hour seems like a move right out of his playbook. What exactly does Adam stand to gain from a weakened or destroyed OpenAI?