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He took a rare example of a mission focused and open source tech organization and turned it into just another proprietary silicon valley cash-grab grift.

That alone should be reason enough to fire him and not look back.

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Coulda sworn the Board did that.

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Clearly in no small part from his loud and vocal influence. Everything went according to the profit-first playbook he lives by.

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Yep, if this goes through, looks like his take-over was already complete. They waited (way) too long.

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Yeah, too little too late. Amputation will not stop the cultural cancer now.

No matter though. Open source alternatives are catching up in a fraction of the development time. OpenAI has been left behind in the race for Open AI.

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The cherry on top would be if, in all the chaos of employee departures, the GPT-4 weights got leaked online.

Probably would be the best thing that could happen in turns of actually making AI "open", but also would unleash utter mayhem in the marketplace.

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If Microsoft ends up essentially at the helm of OpenAI after this all this then I'll know we are living in a tragic comedy.

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Your details were wrong but your sentiment is turning horribly right

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I think it would have been extremely hard to do anything meaningful with AI though without a business model. The hardware and research is expensive.

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Explain then why the open source community is moving so much faster:

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

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