>>johnwh+Uc1
This should be higher voted. Seems like an internal power struggle between the more academic types and the commercial minded sides of OpenAI.
I bet Sam goes and founds a company to take on OpenAI…and wins.
>>dannyk+Le1
I don't see it. Altman does not seem hacker-minded and likely will end up with an inferior product. This might be what led to this struggle. Sam is more about fundraising and getting the word out there but he should keep out of product decisions.
>>csomar+oD1
Brockman is with Sam, which makes them a formidable duo. Should they choose to, they will offer stiff competition to OpenAI but they may not even want to compete.
>>deepGe+eN1
For a company to be as successful as OpenAI, two people won't cut it. OpenAI arguably has the best ML talent at the moment. Talent attracts talent. People come for Sutskever, Karpathy, and alike -- not for Altman or Brockman.
>>kazama+VN1
according to one of the researchers who left, Simon, the engineering piece is more important. and many of their best engineers leading GPT5 and ChatGPT left (Brockman, Pachocki, and Simon)