We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

>>staran+(OP)

    > We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

    > We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

1- So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults?

2- Now what happens to Microsoft's role in all of this?

3- Twitter is still the best place to follow this and get updates, everyone is still make "official" statements on twitter, not sure how long this website will last but until then, this is the only portal for me to get news.

>>ryzvon+71
> So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults?

Altman was trying to remove one of the board members before he was forced out. Looks like he got his way in the end, but I'm going to call Altman the primary instigator because of that.

His side was also the "we'll nuke the company unless you resign" side.

>>6gvONx+Z2
His side was also "700 regular employees support this", which is pretty unusual as most people don't care about their CEO at all. I am not related to OpenAI at all, but given the choice of "favorite of all employees" vs "fire people with no warning then refuse to give explanation why even under pressure" I know which side I root for.

>>theamk+A5
No idea what these 700 employees were thinking. They probably had little knowledge of what truly went down other than “my CEO was fired unfairly” and rushed to the rescue.

I think the board should have been more transparent on why they made the decision to fire Sam.

Or perhaps these employees only cared about their AI work and money? The foundation would be perceived as the culprit against them.

Really sad there’s no clarity from the old board disclosed. Hope one day we will know.

>>xiwenc+wa
They were thinking about money. There you go. Seeing what you build crumble is not pleasant when this means you are financially impacted.

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