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> 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.

This seems like the real bit of news here

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I think the most aggressive part of this is the "together with colleagues" sub sentence. He is basically openly poaching the employees of a company that he supposedly has a very close cooperation with. This situation seems especially difficult since Microsoft basically houses all of openai's infrastructure. How can they continue a trust-based relationship like this?

Regarding the trust-based relationship... OpenAI burned that bridge and Microsoft was made aware of the very real threat that OpenAI is not in line with them, they'll try to get out as fast as humanly possible.

If the claim that Sam Altman wasn't consistently [over long period of time] "candid" with the board, e.g. they're saying he's been lying to them - is it OpenAI that burned that bridge who has a responsibility to act on real information, or Sam Altman that is in fact the responsible party - even if he ends up "winning" out in the consequences?

Odd to choose VC/finance types to lead a research team

Satya hires and is going to invest further into the people who, instead of delivering as promised, brought him this mess. It all looks like a panic scrambling on the part of Satya and Altman. Like as if the whole deal was hinging on Altman - such risky deal would be a mistake on part of Satya, the mistake that it looks to me he is scrambling to cover.

Wouldn't the people that 'brought him this mess' be the people at OpenAI still? Not the people jumping ship.

Sam has a lot of researchers wanting to jump ship. there was a thread on Twitter where employees would heart one of Sam's tweets as a signal they would jump ship with him towards his next adventure.

A lot of OAI folk sent the signal.

They probably care more about the people they may bring with them.

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