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Original mission statement: Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.
Current mission statement: Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.
About: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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☑️ #100 Apr 24, 2024
Nvidia CEO hand-delivers world's fastest AI system to OpenAI
@gdb: First @NVIDIA DGX H200 in the world, hand-delivered to OpenAI and dedicated by Jensen "to advance AI, computing, and humanity"
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☑️ #99 Apr 14, 2024
Introducing OpenAI Japan
openai.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] We are excited to announce our first office in Asia and we’re releasing a GPT-4 custom model optimized for the Japanese language.
Our new local presence also gets us closer to leading businesses like Daikin, Rakuten, and TOYOTA Connected who are using ChatGPT Enterprise to automate complex business processes, assist in data analysis, and optimize internal reporting.
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☑️ #98 Mar 28, 2024
Investment Adviser Public Disclosure and Mr. Vespers
Noongap Investing: Did an "AI hallucinated" GP temporarily manage OpenAI Startup Fund?
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Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund (2/15/24)
Fund Raising Information (via radient):
1️⃣ OpenAI Startup Fund I, L.P. (CIK: 1877240)
OpenAI Startup Fund Management, LLC (FINRA's CRD number: 318221)
OpenAI Startup Fund GP I, LLC
Form ADV: 2024-03-29 (pdf)
Form D/A file number: 021-419097 > 2023-05-24 (amendment)
Form D file number: 02-1419097 > 2021-10-28
2️⃣ OpenAI Startup Fund SPV I, L.P. (CIK: 2003722)
Form D file number: 021-504303 > 2024-02-02
3️⃣ OpenAI Startup Fund SPV II, L.P. (CIK: 2018704)
Form D file number: 021-511572 > 2024-04-25
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☑️ #97 Mar 20, 2024
Crafting an Anatomy of OpenAI's Developer Community
julep-ai.github.io: [Transcription] [Excerpt] We created a dataset of all posts and discussions in the above categories which took place on the forum till 28th February 2024.
🔹Continue reading | Related content: Hugging Face
This dataset is curated from the posts of the OpenAI Community Forum (https://community.openai.com)
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☑️ #96 Mar 11, 2024
Abu Dhabi Launches Comprehensive Global Investment Strategy On Artificial Intelligence
mubadala.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council Announces MGX, a Technology Investment Vehicle with Mubadala and G42 as Founding Partners.
The Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC) - established on January 22, 2024 by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates - announced today the creation of MGX, a technology investment company to enable the advancement and deployment of leading edge technologies intended to improve the lives of current and future generations. Mubadala and G42 will serve as foundational partners in the creation of the new company.
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Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture - Financial Times: [Summarizer] The investment firm MGX, supported by the United Arab Emirates, is talking about possibly funding Sam Altman's plan to create a semiconductor business for OpenAI. According to the Financial Times, which spoke to two people who know about the discussions, they want to make Abu Dhabi a key player in this AI strategy, working with partners worldwide.
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☑️ #95 Mar 8, 2024
OpenAI announces new members to board of directors
openai.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo join; Sam Altman rejoins board.
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☑️ #94 Mar 5, 2024
OpenAI and Elon Musk
openai.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.
Elon soon chose to leave OpenAI, saying that our probability of success was 0, and that he planned to build an AGI competitor within Tesla. When he left in late February 2018, he told our team he was supportive of us finding our own path to raising billions of dollars. In December 2018, Elon sent us an email saying “Even raising several hundred million won’t be enough. This needs billions per year immediately or forget it.” [3]
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☑️ #93 Feb 29, 2024
Elon Musk: OpenAI Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft
sf.courts.ca.gov : Case Number: CGC24612746 > Register of Actions
Title: ELON MUSK VS. SAMUEL ALTMAN ET AL
Cause of Action: CONTRACT/WARRANTY
Musk's allegations do not reflect the reality of our work or mission.
Jason Kwon
(internal memo sent to OpenAI employees)
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Exhibit 2 (Subject: AI lab)
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☑️ #92 Feb 29, 2024
OpenAI + humanoid robots
@OpenAI: OpenAI + humanoid robots — we’re collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction.
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☑️ #91 Feb 28, 2024 🔴 rumor
SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled
wsj.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Regulator is examining internal communications of CEO Sam Altman, after board last year temporarily ousted him for alleged lack of candor.
The regulator, whose probe hasn’t previously been reported, has been seeking internal records from current and former OpenAI officials and directors, and sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December, according to people familiar with the matter. That followed the OpenAI board’s decision in November to fire Altman as CEO and oust him from the board. At the time, directors said Altman hadn’t been “consistently candid in his communications,” but didn’t elaborate.
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☑️ #90 Feb 26, 2024
Rakuten and OpenAI Partner to Deliver Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Telecom
global.rakuten.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Rakuten and OpenAI Partner to Deliver Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Telecom.
Collaboration to design and develop AI solutions tailored to the telecommunications industry.
Combines Rakuten's industry-leading expertise in Open RAN technology with OpenAI's unparalleled capabilities in AI.
Tokyo & San Francisco, February 26, 2024 - Rakuten Group, Inc. and OpenAI, L.L.C. today announced that the two companies are partnering to develop and deliver cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed for the telecommunications industry.
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☑️ #89 Feb 22, 2024
Most big legacy news publishers across 10 countries are blocking OpenAI’s crawlers
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk: [Transcription] [Excerpt] How many news websites block AI crawlers?
If publishers do not want AI companies to be able to access their online content, they have the option of blocking their web crawlers. Publishers can use the robots.txt file on their website to instruct web crawlers to stay away (though compliance with the instruction is voluntary). When OpenAI released its latest web crawlers on 7 August 2023, they also provided instructions on how to block them (OpenAI, n.d.), giving publishers the ability to opt out, as did Google on 28 September 2023 (Romain 2023).
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☑️ #88 Feb 16, 2024 🔴 rumor
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion
nytimes.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months.
OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly tripling its valuation in less than 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the deal.
The company would sell existing shares in a so-called tender offer led by the venture firm Thrive Capital, the people said. The deal lets employees cash out their shares in the company, rather than a traditional funding round that would raise money for business operations.
💲 Money follows…
⇢ In an attempt to resolve last year’s turmoil, OpenAI hired the law firm WilmerHale to review the board’s actions and Mr. Altman’s leadership. WilmerHale is expected to finish its report on the episode early this year. /NYT/
☑️ #87 Feb 8, 2024 🔴 rumor
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
wsj.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] OpenAI chief pursues investors including the U.A.E. for a project possibly requiring up to $7 trillion.
Sam Altman was already trying to lead the development of human-level artificial intelligence. Now he has another great ambition: raising trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry.
The OpenAI chief executive officer is in talks with investors including the United Arab Emirates government to raise funds for a wildly ambitious tech initiative that would boost the world’s chip-building capacity, expand its ability to power AI, among other things, and cost several trillion dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The project could require raising as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion, one of the people said.
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☑️ #86 Feb 8, 2024 🔴 rumor
OpenAI on track to hit $2bn revenue milestone as growth rockets
ft.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI’s revenues have surpassed $2bn on an annualised basis.
🔹Related content:
Reuters: Revenue topped $1.6 billion in December, up from $1.3 billion as of mid-October, the Information had reported previously.
The revenue has exceeded $2 billion on an annual basis, FT reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of OpenAI finances.
💲 Money follows…In an attempt to resolve last year’s turmoil, OpenAI hired the law firm WilmerHale to review the board’s actions and Mr. Altman’s leadership. WilmerHale is expected to finish its report on the episode early this year.
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☑️ #85 Jan 24, 2024 🔴 rumor
OpenAI’s Altman discussed chip-making venture with members of Congress
washingtonpost.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The government plans to invest billions in producing computer chips in U.S. and has blocked the export of high-end chips to China.
In December, The Washington Post reported that Altman had told venture capital investors Peter Thiel and Vinod Khosla that he was planning to build a chip company. To fund it, he would potentially tap Middle East governments, including Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, as well as Silicon Valley investors. Bloomberg News reported last week that the project centered around building a “network of factories” to increase chip production.
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📌 Notes
⇢ OpenAI Model Deprecation: OpenAI will retire 33 models (1/4/23)
⇢ OpenAI Startup Fund: Converge 2 (12/3/23) | Converge 1 (11/2/22)
⇢ [Opinion] OpenAI and Greatness Cannot Be Planned
⇢ [OAI PPUs] How OpenAI's unique equity compensation works
⇢ [OAI Phone] Brainstorming meetings: “The iPhone of Artificial Intelligence" centered on OpenAI’s technology
⇢ [OAI Board] Give OpenAI's Board Some Time. The Future of AI Could Hinge on It: Sam Altman has had contentious corporate breakups before.
⇢ [“The Paper”] Decoding Intentions - CSET
⇢ [Q-Star] 🔴 rumor: AGI, Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
☑️ #84 Jan 20, 2024 🔴 rumor
Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories
- Push reflects concern about potential semiconductor shortage.
- Project would involve working with major chipmaking companies.
bloomberg.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans.
Altman has had conversations with several large potential investors in the hopes of raising the vast sums needed for chip fabrication plants, or fabs, as they’re known colloquially, said the people, who requested anonymity because the conversations are private.
🔹Related content:
Has the semiconductor down cycle reached its nadir? TSMC thinks so (1/18/24)
Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined 11% in 2023 (1/16/24)
[OpenAI Chip] (X) | G42 and OpenAI launch partnership to deploy advanced AI Capabilities optimized for the UAE and broader region (10/18/23) - OpenAI to join he custom AI Chip Club? (10/6/23)
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☑️ #83 Jan 19, 2024 🔴 rumor
Both of these agencies want a piece of Microsoft’s Open AI partnership
politico.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can’t pursue an investigation.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are deep in discussions over which agency can probe OpenAI, including the ChatGPT creators’ involvement with Microsoft, on antitrust grounds.
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Commission launches calls for contributions on competition in virtual worlds and generative AI (1/9/24)
Finally, the European Commission is checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation.
Introducing OpenAI Dublin (update, 9/13/23)
CMA seeks views on Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI (12/8/23)
☑️ #78 Dec 8, 2023 Microsoft / OpenAI partnership merger inquiry
☑️ #30 Jun 28, 2023 Introducing OpenAI London (archived)
The Microsoft-OpenAI partnership has garnered antitrust scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, with both the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and European Commission scrutinizing the deal.
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☑️ #82 Dec 30, 2023 🔴 rumor
OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama
theinformation.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] OpenAI recently topped $1.6 billion in annualized revenue on strong growth from its ChatGPT product, up from $1.3 billion as of mid-October, according to two people with knowledge of the figure.
The 20% growth over two months represented in that figure—a measure of the prior month’s revenue multiplied by 12—suggests that the company was able to hold onto its business momentum in selling artificial intelligence to enterprises despite a leadership crisis in November that provided an opening for rivals to go after its customers.
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☑️ #81 Dec 27, 2023
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
nytimes.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies.
The Times is the first major American media organization to sue the companies, the creators of ChatGPT and other popular A.I. platforms, over copyright issues associated with its written works. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.
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@jason_kint: ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1
The New York Times Company v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION (1:23-cv-11195)
District Court, S.D. New York (pdf)
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☑️ #81 Dec 23, 2023
Sam Altman: What would you like openai to build/fix in 2024? »
@sama: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:
AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai'
open source
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☑️ #80 Dec 22, 2023 🔴 rumor
OpenAI Is in Talks to Raise New Funding at Valuation of $100 Billion or More
bloomberg.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said, a deal that would cement the ChatGPT maker as one of the world’s most valuable startups.
Investors potentially involved in the fundraising round have been included in preliminary discussions, according to the people, who asked not to be identified to discuss private matters. Details like the terms, valuation and timing of the funding round haven’t yet been finalized and could still change, the people said.
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☑️ #79 Dec 14, 2023
Superalignment Fast Grants
Apply by February 18
openai.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Superalignment Fast Grants.
In partnership with Eric Schmidt, we are launching a $10M grants program to support technical research towards ensuring superhuman AI systems are aligned and safe:
We are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.
For graduate students, we are sponsoring a one-year $150K OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship: $75K in stipend and $75K in compute and research funding.
No prior experience working on alignment is required; we are actively looking to support researchers who are excited to work on alignment for the first time.
Our application process is simple, and we’ll get back to you within four weeks of applications closing.
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☑️ #78 Dec 8, 2023
Microsoft / OpenAI partnership merger inquiry
gov.uk/cma-cases: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The CMA is investigating the partnership between Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) and OpenAI, Inc. (OpenAI)
Invitation to comment: closes on 3 January 2024
8 December 2023: The CMA is considering whether it is or may be the case that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, or any changes thereto, has resulted in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 and, if so, whether the creation of that situation may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.
To assist it with this assessment, the CMA invites comments from any interested party, in advance of the CMA’s formal investigation starting.
These comments should be provided by the deadline set out above.
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Microsoft + OpenAI Partnership:
✅ 1/23/23 OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership
✅ 9/22/20 OpenAI licenses GPT-3 technology to Microsoft: In addition to offering GPT-3 and future models via the OpenAI API, and as part of a multiyear partnership announced last year, OpenAI has agreed to license GPT-3 to Microsoft for their own products and services.
✅ 6/22/19 Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI: Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits.
✅ 11/15/16 OpenAI & Microsoft: We’re working with Microsoft to start running most of our large-scale experiments on Azure.
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☑️ #77 Dec 2, 2023
Product + Research
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☑️ #76 Nov 30, 2023
A new initial board
@OpenAI: Sam Altman is back as CEO, Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as President. OpenAI has a new initial board. Messages from @sama and board chair @btaylor
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board: Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor.
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@sama: I recognize that during this process some questions were raised about Adam’s potential conflict of interest running Quora and Poe while being on the OpenAI Board. For the record, I want to state that Adam has always been very clear with me and the Board about the potential conflict and doing whatever he needed to do (recusing himself when appropriate and even offering to leave the Board if we ever thought it was necessary) to appropriately manage this situation and to avoid conflicted decision-making. Quora is a large customer of OpenAI and we found it helpful to have customer representation on our Board. We expect that if OpenAI is as successful as we hope it will touch many parts of the economy and have complex relationships with many other entities in the world, resulting in various potential conflicts of interest. The way we plan to deal with this is with full disclosure and leaving decisions about how to manage situations like these up to the Board.
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@sama: The best interests of the company and the mission always come first. It is clear that there were real misunderstandings between me and members of the board. For my part, it is incredibly important to learn from this experience and apply those learnings as we move forward as a company. I welcome the board’s independent review of all recent events. I am thankful to Helen and Tasha for their contributions to the strength of OpenAI.
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☑️ #75 Nov 29, 2023
DealBook Summit 2023 (The New York Times Events)
@CNBCtelevision: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recounts delivering the 'world's first AI supercomputer' to OpenAI.
Jensen Huang recalled delivering “the world’s first AI supercomputer” to OpenAI, after Elon Musk, who co-founded the AI project before departing it in 2018, heard Huang speak about the device at a conference.
“Elon saw it, and he goes, ‘I want one of those’ — he told me about OpenAI,”
“I delivered the world’s first AI supercomputer to OpenAI on that day.”
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☑️ #74 Nov 22, 2023
The new Board
@JonErlichman: Sam Altman is back at OpenAI.
Late Tuesday, he was reinstated as CEO, after being ousted by OpenAI’s board last week.
Greg Brockman, who had resigned as President in protest, has also come back.
Altman’s return caps a remarkable four day stretch for the world’s most talked about AI startup.
As part of the reversal, OpenAI has agreed to shake up its board of directors.
Initially, the new board will consist of 3 members:
Bret Taylor
Larry Summers
Adam D’Angelo
Taylor previously served as co-CEO of Salesforce.
He was also Chairman of Twitter’s board, prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the business.
Summers, a former Harvard President, also served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton.
D’Angelo, who is also CEO of Quora, was one of Open AI’s existing board members.
As part of the changes, the three other board members who moved to oust Altman — Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley and Ilya Sutskever — are expected to leave those roles.
Sutskever, an OpenAI Co-Founder, was quick to repost the personal announcements on 𝕏 from both Altman and Brockman about their returns to the company.
Toner, on 𝕏, simply said “And now, we all get some sleep.”
The development also means former Twitch boss Emmett Shear, who the board had named interim CEO to replace Altman, will no longer serve in that role.
In his own post on 𝕏, Shear said he was “deeply pleased” by the result, adding that the changes would maximize safety “alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved.”
Altman’s removal as CEO last Friday was tied to board concerns over how fast OpenAI was growing the business side of its operation, following the successful launch of ChatGPT.
OpenAI was originally founded as a non-profit and continues to describe its structure as being “a partnership between our original non-profit and a new capped profit arm.”
In its initial statement on Altman’s firing, OpenAI had said he had not been candid in his discussions with the board, without elaborating on the reasons.
Many of OpenAI’s investors — including its key partner Microsoft — were caught off guard by the news and immediately attempted to have Altman reinstated as CEO.
When those efforts fell short, Altman and Brockman were hired by Microsoft on Sunday night to lead an AI team at that company.
That sparked more investor concerns, with some wondering if they'd have to write down the entire value of their investments.
Meanwhile, OpenAI staffers increasingly spoke out.
Eventually, most of the company’s 770 employees said they would quit and join Microsoft unless Altman returned and the board resigned.
Even Sutskever, who had been the one to personally tell Altman he was fired, publicly expressed regret.
After Open AI announced Altman’s return on Tuesday night, Microsoft immediately voiced its support.
CEO Satya Nadella posted on 𝕏 that he’s “encouraged by the changes to the board.”
"We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance," Nadella added.
Recall Nadella had already publicly indicated this week that he would support Altman’s return to OpenAI, despite having struck a deal to bring him to Microsoft.
As for the next steps, Open AI’s new board is expected to grow.
According to multiple reports, there could be upwards of 9 directors.
And Microsoft is certainly expected to have a presence on the board.
As for Altman himself, he was not named as a board member, but there’s already talk he’ll be joining at some point.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more details…
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☑️ #73 Nov 22, 2023
Greg is back as OpenAI President!
@gdb: we are so back
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@gdb: Returning to OpenAI & getting back to coding tonight.
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@securitiex: Thank you Mr. President @gdb
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☑️ #72 Nov 22, 2023
Sam is back as OpenAI CEO!
@sama: i love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya’s support, i’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.
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☑️ #71 Nov 22, 2023
Thank you so much for your patience
@OpenAI: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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☑️ #70 Nov 21, 2023 🟠 opinion
We The People (95%)
@paulg: The idea of a standoff between 3 board members and 95% an organization's employees is so unprecedented that it seems almost grammatically ill-formed. I wouldn't have thought such a thing was even possible. If 95% doesn't count as a vote of no confidence, what number would?
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☑️ #69 Nov 20, 2023 🟠 opinion
A Contrarian View
@eastdakota: I’m told mine is a contrarian view on the events of the last few days, so here goes…
Contrary to what @kevinroose and others have written, Microsoft was not a winner of the events of the last few days around #OpenAI. They were in a much better place on Friday morning last week than they are today. Friday morning they had invested ~$11B in OpenAI and captured most of its upside while still having enough insulated distance to allow @BradSmi to claim things to regulators like “ChatGPT is more open than Meta’s Llama” and to allow any embarrassing LLM hallucinations or other ugliness to be OpenAI’s problem, not Microsoft’s.
Sunday morning they were at their lowest point. There was real risk they lose all their ~$11B investment and look like absolute fools for making that size of investment without any real governance controls. Very smart people who have followed the news carefully, including some big fund managers who hold $MSFT, are still pinging me asking: how was that even possible?
Today they are better off than Sunday morning, but far, far worse off than they were Friday morning. Sure they will likely hire a bunch of the OpenAI team. But that doesn’t get them much they didn’t have before, and it comes with a ton of new reputational risk (they now own responsibility for any hallucinations or other ugliness) and execution risk (see DeepMind within Google for how all the smartest people in AI can still get stymied by the bureaucracy of a giant company).
I think the chances of the senior OpenAI folks still being at Microsoft in 3 years is asymptotically approaching zero. Where the independence and clear mission of OpenAI was exactly what could have kept that group of incredible talent motivated and aligned over the long term, making Office365 spreadsheets a bit more clever isn’t something that rallies a team like their’s. Sure they’ll try and have some level of independence, but the machinery of a trillion dollar+ business software behemoth is hard to not get caught up in and ground out by.
This was a very bad weekend for Microsoft (and, for that matter, OpenAI). I don’t see any clear winners. (Maybe @elonmusk or @benioff — indirectly?) It could have been worse, but it has still been a disaster for everyone directly involved. We’re not at the end of this story. But don’t see a lot of ways in the short term it gets better for Microsoft. And really hard to see how it could get better even over the long term than it looked for them and OpenAI Friday morning last week.
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☑️ #68 Nov 20, 2023 🟠 opinion
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain
stratechery.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize:
On Friday, then-CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board that governs the non-profit; then-President Greg Brockman was removed from the board and subsequently resigned.
Over the weekend rumors surged that Altman was negotiating his return, only for OpenAI to hire former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as CEO.
Finally, late Sunday night, Satya Nadella announced via tweet that Altman and Brockman, “together with colleagues”, would be joining Microsoft.
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☑️ #67 Nov 20, 2023 🟠 opinion
Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team – GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State
semianalysis.com: OpenAI is nothing without its people.
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☑️ #66 Nov 20, 2023 🟠 opinion
Microsoft is Eating the World
AI Supremacy: If OpenAI was a public company, it's stock would have been down about 38% today in a shocking turn of events.
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☑️ #65 Nov 20, 2023
505 of 700 (72.1% and increasing)
@karaswisher: Breaking: 505 of 700 employees @OpenAI tell the board to resign.
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☑️ #64 Nov 20, 2023
OpenAI leadership transition (2): Emmett Shear
@eshear: Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI. After consulting with my family and reflecting on it for just a few hours, I accepted. I had recently resigned from my role as CEO of Twitch due to the birth of my now 9 month old son. Spending time with him has been every bit as rewarding as I thought it would be, and I was happily avoiding full time employment. I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence. When the board shared the situation and asked me to take the role, I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could.
I have spent today drinking from the firehose as much as possible, speaking with the board, a small number of major partners, and listening to employees. Our partnership with Microsoft remains strong, and my priority in the coming weeks will be to make sure we continue to serve all our customers well. OpenAI employees are extremely impressive, as you might have guessed, and mission-driven in the extreme. And it’s clear that the process and communications around Sam’s removal has been handled very badly, which has seriously damaged our trust.
I have a three point plan for the next 30 days:
Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report.
Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways.
Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.
Depending on the results everything we learn from these, I will drive changes in the organization — up to and including pushing strongly for significant governance changes if necessary. I will be rolling these out as they become clear over the 30 day period. OpenAI’s stability and success are too important to allow turmoil to disrupt them like this. I will endeavor to address the key concerns as well, although in many cases I believe it may take longer than a month to achieve true progress.
I have nothing but respect for what Sam and the entire OpenAI team have built. It’s not just an incredible research project and software product, but an incredible company. I’m here because I know that, and I want to do everything in my power to protect it and grow it further.
It's now 1am and I'll pick this up tomorrow.
PS: I am posting this here both because I think it’s in the general public interest to know in this case, but please don’t expect all future internal comms to come through a public channel. PPS: Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did *not* remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.
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☑️ #63 Nov 20, 2023
@gdb: We are going to build something new & it will be incredible. Initial leadership (more soon): @merettm @sidorszymon @aleks_madry @sama @gdb
The mission continues.
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⇢ @sama: the mission continues
⇢ @satyanadella: I’m super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios, and LinkedIn, and I’m looking forward to having you do the same.
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This agreement follows our previous investments in 2019 and 2021. It extends our ongoing collaboration across AI supercomputing and research and enables each of us to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies.
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OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership (1/23/23)
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☑️ #62 Nov 19, 2023 🟠 opinion
Jessica Livingston
@jesslivingston: The reason I was a founding donor to OpenAI in 2015 was not because I was interested in AI, but because I believed in Sam. So I hope the board can get its act together and bring Sam and Greg back.
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@sama: the first day of openai, seven years ago today (posted: 1/4/23)
How OpenAI Transitioned from a Nonprofit to a $29B For-Profit Company (3/28/23) [Transcription] [Excerpt] [1] When the company started in 2015 by a group of high-profile entrepreneurs and researchers – among them were Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Thiel, and Olivier Grabias, its mission was clear:
“to advance artificial intelligence in a way that would benefit society as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate a financial return.”
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☑️ #61 Nov 19, 2023 🔴 rumor
Microsoft Eyes Seat on OpenAI’s Revamped Board
theinformation.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI’s board of directors, or as a board observer without voting power, one of the people said.
The discussions are part of an effort by OpenAI’s big backers and senior leadership to reinstate Altman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been personally assisting OpenAI’s interim CEO Mira Murati in the discussions over Altman’s return, the people said. If Altman is unable to return to OpenAI, Microsoft would consider investing in Altman’s new venture, one of the people said.
"Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI’s board of directors, or as a board observer without voting power, one of the people said.”
“The discussions are part of an effort by OpenAI’s big backers and senior leadership to reinstate Altman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been personally assisting OpenAI’s interim CEO Mira Murati in the discussions over Altman’s return, the people said. If Altman is unable to return to OpenAI, Microsoft would consider investing in Altman’s new venture, one of the people said."
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A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella (11/19/23)
[Transcription] [X]This blog was updated at 11:55 p.m. Nov. 19 to reflect the latest statement from Satya Nadella.
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI’s new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.
Posted Nov. 17, 2023
As you saw at Microsoft Ignite this week, we’re continuing to rapidly innovate for this era of AI, with over 100 announcements across the full tech stack from AI systems, models, and tools in Azure, to Copilot. Most importantly, we’re committed to delivering all of this to our customers while building for the future. We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team. Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.
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☑️ #60 Nov 19, 2023
GUEST 04
@sama: first and last time i ever wear one of these
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☑️ #59 Nov 18, 2023
Here’s What Sam Altman Said at APEC, a Day Before He Got Fired From OpenAI
sfstandard.com: [Transcription] Here is a transcript of nearly everything Altman said during the APEC CEO Summit panel, where he said that generative AI "will be the most transformative and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented," AI technology will likely not need heavy regulation "for the next couple of generations" and that enough "societal antibodies" have been built up to address misinformation, especially leading up to the 2024 elections globally.
The transcript has been lightly edited.
Jobs: [Meta Chief Product Officer] Chris [Cox], [Google senior vice president] James [Manyika] and Sam, why are you devoting your life to this work?
Altman: It’s definitely my life’s work and what I always wanted to work on since I was a little kid; I'd studied it in school. I got kind of sidetracked for a while, but as soon as it looked like we had an attack vector, it was very clear that this was what I wanted to work on. I think this will be the most transformative and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented.
I think more generally, the 2020s will be the decade where humanity as a whole begins the transition from scarcity to abundance. We'll have abundant intelligence that far surpasses expectations. Same thing for energy, same thing for health, a few other categories, too. But the technological change happening now is going to change the constraints of the way we live and the sort of economy and the social structures and what’s possible.
I think this is going to be the greatest step forward that we've had yet so far, and the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we've had so far. So I'm super excited. I can't imagine anything more exciting to work on, and on a personal note, just in the last couple of weeks, I have gotten to be in the room, when we sort of like push the sort of the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward and getting to do that is like a professional honor of a lifetime. So, it’s just so fun to get to work on that.
Jobs: I’d like each of you to talk a little bit about how you think about some of the existential threats you and others have articulated, as well as the state of regulations, what's proper and what's too much. How do we get it right now and then be open to evolving as the technology evolves?
I had dinner with Yuval [Harari, an Israeli author and public intellectual] in Tel Aviv in early June of this year. He was very concerned.
And I understand it. I really do understand why, if you have not been closely tracking the field, it feels like things just went vertical. And sure, you know, people maybe were doing some before, but people had these papers here, this model here, this neural thing here, but people that use machine translation don't really feel like they're using AI.
All of a sudden, there was this sort of perception of something that's qualitatively changed. You know, now I can talk to this thing. It's like the Star Trek computer I was always promised and I didn't expect to happen. Why this year? Why not a year ago? Why not in 10 years? Like, what happened? Yeah, so I think a lot of the world has collectively gone through a lurch this year to catch up. Now, as humans can do with many other things, people are like, “Yeah man, where’s GPT-5? What have you done for me lately?” We already moved on, and that's great. I think that's awesome. That's a great human spirit I hope we never lose. But the first time you hear about this or use it, it feels much more creature-like than tool-like, and then you get to use it more, and you see how it helps you, and you see what the limitations are.
And it's, like, another thing on the technology tree that has been unlocked. Now. I do think this time it's different in important ways. This is maybe the first tool that can self-improve in the way that we understand it. But we need new ideas I think we're on a path of self-destruction as a species right now. We need new ideas, we need new technology if we want to flourish for tens and hundreds of thousands and millions of years more and I think a lot of people see the potential of that in AI. But it's not like a clean story of victory. We do have to mitigate these downsides. It's great in the short term; it does all these wonderful things to help us and, in the medium term, how it can help us cure diseases and find new ways to solve our most pressing problems. But on the other hand, how do we make sure it is a tool that has proper safeguards as it gets really powerful?
Today, it's not that powerful, not that big of a deal. But people are smart, they see where it's going. And even though we can't quite intuit exponentials well as a species much, we can tell when something's going to keep going on; this is going to keep going. And so you get this question of, “How do we get as much of the benefits as possible, not unduly slow those down?” An AI tutor for everyone on Earth? Yes, please. Sounds amazing. AI medical advisor. Yes, cure every disease, great.
Jobs: But in the hands of bad actors, there could also be very, very negative consequences.
What kind of limits are we going to put in place? Who's going to decide what those are? How are we going to enforce them? What are the rules of the road going to be nationally, where we have to have some agreement and people realize the challenge of that? That said, this has been a significant chunk of my time over the last year. I really think the world is going to rise to the occasion, and everybody wants to do the right thing.
Jobs: Mm-hmm. And what about the executive order? How close does that get to getting it right?
Lots of things there that are worthy of quibbling and lots of areas to improve it, but as a start and saying, “We're going to do something here.” I think it's a good start. The real concern of the industry right now, to paraphrase, is how do we make sure we get thoughtful guardrails, on the real frontier models, without us all turning it into regulatory capture and stopping open source models and smaller companies. I think open source is awesome. I’m thrilled you all are doing it. I hope we see more of it.
Jobs: I think we should have a conversation about that. But keep going because you have some elements that are open source.
It’s a hard message to explain to people that current models are fine. We don't need heavy regulation here. Probably not even for the next couple of generations, but at some point when the model can do—the equivalent of a whole company, and then a whole country and then the whole world—maybe we do want some collective global supervision of that and some collective decision-making.
We're not telling you you have to totally ignore personal harms. We're not saying you should go after small companies and open-source models. We are saying, “Trust us, this is going to get really powerful and really scary, and you've got to regulate it later”—very difficult needle to thread through all of that.
Jobs: Sam, let's talk about next year's elections and what you anticipate.
I really do think we underrate how much societal antibodies have already been built. But it's imperfect. Also, the dangerous thing there is not what we already understand, which is the sort of existing images and videos, but it's all the new stuff—the known unknowns, the unknown unknowns that are going to come from this. We talked recently a little bit about this idea of personalized one-on-one persuasion and how we don't quite know how that's going to go. But we know it's coming. There’s a whole bunch of other things that we don't know because we haven't all seen what, you know, generative video or whatever can do. And that's going to come fast and furious during an election year, and the only way we're going to manage through that is a very tight feedback loop. We, collectively, the industry, society, everything.
Jobs: Hmm. I suppose the problem is that often the damage is done and then we notice and then we correct, and I also understand about broad antibodies at the societal level, because we've now been swimming in a sea of propaganda and misinformation. However, we still have a lot of people in this country and elsewhere who believe in conspiracy theories that are easily debunked, but nevertheless, they believe in them. And that has to do with human nature and the way that the brain latches onto information, and that's something that that we can’t quickly evolve past.
We've struggled with that for a long time in human history. Conspiracy theories are always that thing somebody else believes. But I don't want to discount that problem at all. That is something deep about human psychology, but it's not new with this technology. It may be amplified more than before.
Relative to what we've already gone through with the internet, it's not clear that AI-generated images are going to amplify it much more.
Jobs: What is the most remarkable surprise that [you believe] will have happened in your field or in your company in 2024?
The model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected.
Jobs: Wait, say it again?
The model capability, like what these systems can do, will have taken such a leap forward no one expected that much progress.
Jobs: And why is that a remarkable thing? Why is it brilliant?
Well, it’s just different to expectation. I think people have, like, in their mind how much better the model will be next year, and it'll be remarkable how much different it is.
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☑️ #58 Nov 18, 2023 🟠 opinion
#13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Loeber on Substack: Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI. Following, all of Tech Twitter was abuzz with one question: wait a moment, who was on the Board?
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☑️ #57 Nov 18, 2023 🟠 opinion
The biggest immediate lesson from the OpenAI meltdownThe biggest immediate lesson from the OpenAI meltdown
Marcus on AI: Altman is out. Hours later Greg Brockman, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board resigned. More exits are rumored. Major drama at OpenAI.
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☑️ #56 Nov 18, 2023
Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today
@gdb: Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.
Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out.
We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Here is what we know:
Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.
At 12:19pm, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 12:23pm, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told that he was being removed from the board (but was vital to the company and would retain his role) and that Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post.
As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira who found out the night prior.
The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon.
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Leaving OpenAI (11/17/23)Leaving Stripe (5/6/15)
[Transcription] [Excerpt] Choosing to leave something you love is never easy. In some ways, it would have been easier to have a forcing function: being fired or for the company to have failed or been acquired. But Stripe is doing better than ever, there’s plenty of impactful work to be done, and we’ve successfully built an incredibly thoughtful company that keeps adapting as it grows.
Right now I’m in a rare window. I haven’t yet placed myself in a new critical role, and I’m confident that Stripe is being left in great hands. If I don’t take advantage of this opportunity, I’ll always wonder what could have been. Sam Altman put it well: life is not a dress rehearsal.
Friday will be my last day at Stripe.
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☑️ #55 Nov 18, 2023
The openai board should go after me
@sama: if I start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares.
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☑️ #54 Nov 17, 2023
OpenAI announces leadership transition (1)
openai.com: [Transcription] [Excerpts] Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.
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New Board of Directors: OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
OpenAI Charter (4/9/18): Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission.
This document reflects the strategy we’ve refined over the past two years, including feedback from many people internal and external to OpenAI. The timeline to AGI remains uncertain, but our Charter will guide us in acting in the best interests of humanity throughout its development.
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome. To that end, we commit to the following principles:
Broadly distributed benefits
We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.
Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.
Long-term safety
We are committed to doing the research required to make AGI safe, and to driving the broad adoption of such research across the AI community.
We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.
Technical leadership
To be effective at addressing AGI’s impact on society, OpenAI must be on the cutting edge of AI capabilities—policy and safety advocacy alone would be insufficient.
We believe that AI will have broad societal impact before AGI, and we’ll strive to lead in those areas that are directly aligned with our mission and expertise.
Cooperative orientation
We will actively cooperate with other research and policy institutions; we seek to create a global community working together to address AGI’s global challenges.
We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research.
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☑️ #53 Nov 13, 2023
OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’
ft.com: [Transcription] [Excerpts] Asked if Microsoft would keep investing further, Altman said:
"we both make money on each other’s success, and everybody is happy."
“I’d hope so…there’s a long way to go, and a lot of compute to build out between here and AGI . . . training expenses are just huge.”
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☑️ #52 Nov 11, 2023
Non-profit / Capped profit structure
@OfficialLoganK: If you are skeptical of @OpenAI’s non-profit / capped profit structure, please consider reading this page which goes into the detail. I see so many people confused about how the structure works, share it with a skeptic! openai.com/our-structure
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Board of Directors (update): OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees
Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist),and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.
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☑️ #51 Oct 19, 2023 🔴 rumor
Thrive Capital to Lead Purchase of OpenAI Employee Shares at $80 Billion-Plus Valuation
theinformation.com: [Transcription] [Excerpts] Investment firm Thrive Capital is leading a deal to buy OpenAI shares from employees through a tender offer that would give the company a paper valuation of at least $80 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge. The deal would boost OpenAI’s valuation by at least three times from a similar transaction the startup made six months ago.
The deal would expand Thrive’s investment in the artificial intelligence developer, which sold employee shares to Thrive and other investors around April at a valuation of $27 billion. OpenAI’s new valuation would be more than 60 times its annualized revenue and make it one of the most highly valued firms backed by venture capital.
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