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It is interesting to see so many people believing that Sam is the altruistically motivated one, and the board is hungry for money. It's understandable, 'board of directors' is typically associated with faceless greed. But in this instance, it seems more likely that Sam would be ousted for selling integrity for profit, than for rejecting profit for integrity.

Of course, we don't really know yet.

>>Vegeno+(OP)
It sounds like this was the issue. Even Elon Musk, for all his flaws, strongly disagreed with the direction of 'open'AI.

Ilya siding with the board and the board having no financial interests leads me to think that Sam was hiding things/making decisions that kept leading the org away from its initial mission.

We'll probably learn in the future what really happened.

>>Vegeno+(OP)
It’s not about altruism. He might have wanted a different thing. If he is well set financially for himself, he may want to build AGI or advance AI further. Others may want to have some sort of an exit for the company or invest more into building SaaS AI platform.