Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

I was confused when the whole thing was going down.

I was more confused when the whole "board wants to backtrack and maybe resign" thing was going down.

I got even more confused when Emmett Shear was announced as the CEO.

...but never in a hundred years would I have imagined "haha just join Microsoft" as an actual alternative.

I remain, confused.

>>lannis+E
And for the OpenAI employees, they can just switch the badge in a blink second, it almost feel like a no-brainer to many.

I think Sam just took the easier route to rebuild OpenAI within MSFT.

Now the trouble comes to the SV VCs they now will be furious.

>>karmas+T1
And then they get to say one of the most depressing sentences in an engineer's lexicon: "It's almost like we're a startup within a big company!"

>>tdeck+s3
I actually don't think OpenAI being a startup is beneficial for them at this moment.

OpenAI already has a very clear business model, that is selling completion/chat/agent API based on their model. What they need is to productize it.

Their roadmap is GPT4/5/6/7

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