How OpenAI's origins explain the Sam Altman drama
How OpenAI's origins explain the Sam Altman drama Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP OpenAI's board of directors' abruptly firing CEO Sam Altman then bringing him back days later did not come out of nowhere. Sponsor Message But in 2018, two things happened: First, Musk quit the board of OpenAI after he said he invested $50 million, cutting the then-unknown company off from more of the entrepreneur's crucial financial backing. Yet the nonprofit's board and mission still governed the company, creating two competing tribes within OpenAI: adherents to the serve-humanity-and-not-shareholders credo and those who subscribed to the more traditional Silicon Valley modus operandi of using investor money to release consumer products into the world as rapidly as possible in hopes of cornering a market and becoming an industry pacesetter. An anonymous letter written by former OpenAI employees during the Altman drama called on the board to examine whether Altman was putting commercial products and fundraising goals before the nonprofit's founding mission.
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