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Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So what I've gleaned is: Altman was grooming people to start a new, proprietary company and wasn't telling the board of the non-profit, so they fired him, predictably enough. Some of the people he was prepping to jump ship are now going to follow him. The board is seeing the potential exodus of key people and is willing to let him make OpenAI into the for-profit outfit he wants so now they're talking to him in that direction because they'll probably have nothing left if they don't.