It’s crazy how fast this whole OpenAI Sam Altman story has developed, and how many twists have occurred. OpenAI now has the ex-Twitch CEO as its interim CEO. 550/700 employees have signed documents stating they want the board members to step down. Ilya Sutskever, the linchpin in this whole fiasco has now publicly stated they regret siding with the board. Sam Altman has now joined Microsoft.
In less than a week the entire company has imploded.
Supposedly Microsoft is now offering direct compensation, including the odd stock options thing transferring to equivalent stock options in Microsoft, to any Open AI employees for switching to Microsoft.
Watch the entire company, worth $90 billion a week ago, vanish in the course of a week. Wild.
Not just Microsoft either, the Salesforce CEO went on Twitter offering to match whatever OpenAI was offering employees if they jump ship. Poaching in the industry is common, but you rarely see a CEO publicly announce it like this.
Everyone smells the blood in the water and wants to scoop up OpenAI talent. With welcome mats rolled out at several companies, and public dissent with the board and new CEO, OpenAI might actually lose the majority of their employees.
It’s crazy how fast this whole OpenAI Sam Altman story has developed, and how many twists have occurred. OpenAI now has the ex-Twitch CEO as its interim CEO. 550/700 employees have signed documents stating they want the board members to step down. Ilya Sutskever, the linchpin in this whole fiasco has now publicly stated they regret siding with the board. Sam Altman has now joined Microsoft.
In less than a week the entire company has imploded.
saying less than a week underplays it. it was a weekend. it all happened in rwo days.
Things happen fast (and weird) when hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake
Is this better for Microsoft? They no longer have to operate through a not-for-profit and all the engineers want to come to them!
Supposedly Microsoft is now offering direct compensation, including the odd stock options thing transferring to equivalent stock options in Microsoft, to any Open AI employees for switching to Microsoft.
Watch the entire company, worth $90 billion a week ago, vanish in the course of a week. Wild.
Not just Microsoft either, the Salesforce CEO went on Twitter offering to match whatever OpenAI was offering employees if they jump ship. Poaching in the industry is common, but you rarely see a CEO publicly announce it like this.
Everyone smells the blood in the water and wants to scoop up OpenAI talent. With welcome mats rolled out at several companies, and public dissent with the board and new CEO, OpenAI might actually lose the majority of their employees.
So salesforce finally taking pltr seriously and want to poach ai engineers.
I’m betting the board members were originally talking to someone and now regret it.
720/770 according to another thread.
You don’t hire a tech bro to do a man’s job. This whole debacle has simply been emberassing for SV.