The Employees circulated a petition. Demanding he be rehired and the board resign or else they would resign and go to work at Microsoft who already promised them jobs. 700 of 770 employees apparently signed on to it.
Caught between a rock and a hard place. Most of the board resigned.
Losing almost 90% of your workforce is pretty hard to come back from, though Elon did it with Twitter/X
It sounds like this could have had potential to get rid of some bad apples & have the AI truly be a great open source option again that wouldn't be driven by agenda.
That said, maybe I am misunderstanding something as I havent dug in too deep yet.
Frankly. Unlike the bloated mess of Twitter. The majority of OpenAI staff at least according to some reports are actually useful and engaged in some facet of R&D. Improvement of existing systems. Or Bug fixing.
This is the way. Maybe he’s highlighting the open AI debacle as a parallel for GEOTUS? They got rid of a leader and those he led wanted it reversed and took action to get him back?
Sounds like Sam (the head that got fired) was rehired 4 days later. Maybe I misunderstood the article.
He was.
The Employees circulated a petition. Demanding he be rehired and the board resign or else they would resign and go to work at Microsoft who already promised them jobs. 700 of 770 employees apparently signed on to it.
Caught between a rock and a hard place. Most of the board resigned.
Losing almost 90% of your workforce is pretty hard to come back from, though Elon did it with Twitter/X
It sounds like this could have had potential to get rid of some bad apples & have the AI truly be a great open source option again that wouldn't be driven by agenda.
That said, maybe I am misunderstanding something as I havent dug in too deep yet.
The "workforce" Elon lost were a bunch of woke leftists who never did any work anyways. I doubt they even showed up for work lol.
Frankly. Unlike the bloated mess of Twitter. The majority of OpenAI staff at least according to some reports are actually useful and engaged in some facet of R&D. Improvement of existing systems. Or Bug fixing.
This is the way. Maybe he’s highlighting the open AI debacle as a parallel for GEOTUS? They got rid of a leader and those he led wanted it reversed and took action to get him back?