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>>apsec1+(OP)
Ousting sama and gdb over something as petty as a simple strategy disagreement is totally unprofessional. sama got accused of serious misconduct. Even if he was too eager to commercialize OpenAIs tech that doesn't come close to justifying this circus act.

>>gizmo+D2
This is not petty, it’s the integral mission of the company, the reason it was founded, the reason it got investors and the reason that many of the most brilliant scientists in the world work there.

They started as a non-profit ffs.

>>MVisse+Uf
And they still are. OpenAI consists of two parts; a non-profit entity which owns the IP, along with the obvious commercialization-focused subsidiary of the company.

My question is: what was stopping both parties here from pursuing parallel paths? — have the non-profit/research oriented arm continue to focus on solving AGI, backed by the funds raised on from their LLM offerings? Were potential roadmaps really that divergent?

I had always assumed this was their internal understanding up until now, since at least the introduction of ChatGPT subscriptions.