official announcement here: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
image transcription:
announcement's title "openai announces leadership transition" is at the top, with surprised pikachu face at bottom. on top of pikachu, text reads, "not even Sam could prevent losing his job to AI."
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I thought the board was on board too... But it came when Musk pulled promised funding on the run up to gpt4. It was a shit bird move, but it seemed like it was just picking the best of bad options to keep the lights on in a critical time
I mean, no arguing that he sold their souls to Microsoft though... They've made openai products part of every service they run, and seem to have nudged their trajectory significantly