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>>convex+(OP)
So what was he lying about that got the board so pissed? A story that fits is that they assumed/knew that he had different goals and/or was going to create a spinoff.

If they waited for the GPT5 pretraining to finish and then they minimized the cost of the loss of Altman and the engineers.

The whole secrecy, compartmentalization and urgency of their actions could only be explained by being against a wall. Otherwise if it was about ethics, future plans or whatever political it would happen at a slower pace.

Hope they involved their investors beforehand but I don't know if they had time, OpenAI probably still exists and evolves on other people's money. But what else could they do?

>>antman+kd
Obvious wall would be financial - Sam arranged more Microsoft funding, diluting the non-profitness even more, and tried to force board's hand by high cash burn and persuasion.

Board had to act fast to fix it. And OpenAI changed enterprise pricing of API to be up front for cashflow related to that.