Maybe it has to do with them wanting to get rich by selling their shares - my understanding is there was an ongoing process to get that happening [1].
If Altman is out of the picture, it looks like Microsoft will assimilate a lot of OpenAI into a separate organisation and OpenAI's shares might become worthless.
[1] https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/openai-in-talks-to-s...
It's easy to be a true believer in the mission _before_ all the money is on the table...
What people don't realize is that Microsoft doesn't own the data or models that OpenAI has today. Yeah, they can poach all the talent, but it still takes an enormous amount of effort to create the dataset and train the models the way OpenAI has done it.
Recreating what OpenAI has done over at Microsoft will be nothing short of a herculean effort and I can't see it materializing the way people think it will.
This unequivocally .... knowing not how to waste a very expensive training run is a great lesson
> Some researchers at Microsoft gripe about the restricted access to OpenAI’s technology. While a select few teams inside Microsoft get access to the model’s inner workings like its code base and model weights, the majority of the company’s teams don’t, said the people familiar with the matter.
This is nothing but greed.
All my hate to the employees and researchers of OpenAI, absolutely frothing at the mouth to destroy our civilization.