Some of it adds up. Here's how you can make sense of it:
Sam Altman crafts an elaborate non-profit structure but gets completely blindsided by the possibility of the board overthrowing them.
He didn’t create it alone and always included the possibility that it would push into profit activities somehow
Microsoft invests $10 billion but apparently has no checks in place to know what's happening with their investment.
They knew what was happening. Whether they announce it is a different story.
The board moves quickly to sack the CEO but then falls completely silent, thus almost intentionally losing the communication war.
Shock. They naively made a move they hadn’t thought through, and were unprepared for the tsunami of push back. Enter, deer in headlights.
Sam Altman says he wants to develop AI for the benefit of humanity yet at the first possible moment he sets up a deal that sells 49% of their endeavor to Microsoft.
Perhaps he believed that was the best available way to do that.
After getting kicked out of OpenAI, his first move is to start a brain drain campaign and move their operations under the wings of Microsoft.
He has been way more passive in what happened after he was fired. He’s riding the wave, not making it. Organic.
Ilya is never actually publicly blamed for the coup but is logically assumed to be at fault. He does not communicate at all… until posting a regretful apology for merely "participating" in the board's actions.
Hubris and ambition, a certain type of those, that when reality defies expectation, are met with cowardice and embarrassment in a certain type of person. Slinking off tail between legs apology as this is not what he wanted, but he now has no power.
The board is made up seemingly random selection of people, one of them leading a potential OpenAI competitor.
Not random. RAND corporation has a seat through Tasha. The UK-AU-China axis of interest / risk is represented and reported by Helen. Quora guy is there to figure out how to eventually get everyone to sign up before any answers are provided. Brockman was the brains (let’s face it tho, they all top notch brains), Altman was the make it happen guy and Ilya was the man who would be King (but, ah, "sadly" was not). So we have: MIC, Wonk (Intel & Security / Policy), Money, Tech, Ops and Hubris.
Finally, if you're a 4D chess fan you might want to join me on what will seem some really wild speculation: you can consider that MS has this masterfully planned from June and deftly nudged all board pieces into position until outcome was inevitable: problem; reaction; solution - checkmate.
Satya laughing in King: They thought we'd never get control of OpenAI? We'll show them. What I am curious about is meeting the "fixers" who workshopped this plan and took it to completion. You really think with decabillions on the line, no one is going to be playing at that level? I want to know, if there is a puppet master, who they are? They got masterful skills.
Sam Altman crafts an elaborate non-profit structure but gets completely blindsided by the possibility of the board overthrowing them.
He didn’t create it alone and always included the possibility that it would push into profit activities somehow
Microsoft invests $10 billion but apparently has no checks in place to know what's happening with their investment.
They knew what was happening. Whether they announce it is a different story.
The board moves quickly to sack the CEO but then falls completely silent, thus almost intentionally losing the communication war.
Shock. They naively made a move they hadn’t thought through, and were unprepared for the tsunami of push back. Enter, deer in headlights.
Sam Altman says he wants to develop AI for the benefit of humanity yet at the first possible moment he sets up a deal that sells 49% of their endeavor to Microsoft.
Perhaps he believed that was the best available way to do that.
After getting kicked out of OpenAI, his first move is to start a brain drain campaign and move their operations under the wings of Microsoft.
He has been way more passive in what happened after he was fired. He’s riding the wave, not making it. Organic.
Ilya is never actually publicly blamed for the coup but is logically assumed to be at fault. He does not communicate at all… until posting a regretful apology for merely "participating" in the board's actions.
Hubris and ambition, a certain type of those, that when reality defies expectation, are met with cowardice and embarrassment in a certain type of person. Slinking off tail between legs apology as this is not what he wanted, but he now has no power.
The board is made up seemingly random selection of people, one of them leading a potential OpenAI competitor.
Not random. RAND corporation has a seat through Tasha. The UK-AU-China axis of interest / risk is represented and reported by Helen. Quora guy is there to figure out how to eventually get everyone to sign up before any answers are provided. Brockman was the brains (let’s face it tho, they all top notch brains), Altman was the make it happen guy and Ilya was the man who would be King (but, ah, "sadly" was not). So we have: MIC, Wonk (Intel & Security / Policy), Money, Tech, Ops and Hubris.