The negotiations to carry Sam Altman again to OpenAI slowly proceed.
Right here’s a quick replace on the place issues stand with OpenAI at present, after an explosive weekend and a really complicated Monday which noticed the information of Sam Altman going to Microsoft slowly fade into Satya Nadella not seeming so positive that may occur.
— We’re advised Altman nonetheless desires to return to OpenAI and continues to barter with the board at present.
— As Bloomberg reported late final night time, new interim CEO Emmett Shear is concerned in mediating these negotiations, creating the frankly unprecedented scenario the place (1) the interim CEO who changed (2) the interim CEO who changed Sam and who (3) obtained changed for making an attempt to get Sam again is now (4) deeply concerned in a new effort to get Sam again. Learn it via a couple of instances, it’s effective. It doesn’t make any sense to anybody else both.
— Microsoft’s provide to rent everybody who threatened to stop remains to be on the desk, and has now been made formally public, after being famous within the worker walkout letter yesterday. Generally, Microsoft seems to have receded from the scenario; Nadella stays within the combine however has now made a number of media appearances reiterating that he’ll will work with Altman and OpenAI “no matter configuration,” which frankly appears like he’s speaking about the advantages of plug and play system drivers in Home windows. All of us fall again to what we all know.
— We’re advised everybody, together with the board, is making an attempt to be cheap, and put OpenAI again collectively.
We’ll preserve posting updates as we now have them; on the very least we will say the general temperature has dropped, however it’s not clear any of this ends in an precise return.
