[rirarobo]

Based on Ilya's comments [1] it sounds like it was more about a disagreement around the original non-profit mission, and making sure that AI benefited all of humanity.

Perhaps Ilya felt Sam was focusing too much on profit and power with his recent world tour and then dev day? Regardless, it's certainly rare, for one of the core scientists to maintain control over their creation, rather than the other way around. Typically the VC business guy would be pushing the scientist out.

1. https://nitter.net/GaryMarcus/status/1725707548106580255

[famouswaffles]

It would be weird for this sort of disagreement to reach a feverpitch that would see the CEO sacked without some much better model in the background though.

Like Dev Day was characterized as "too far". How ? How is that interfering with the mission to benefit all humanity? It's all very weird.

[MVissers]

How is profit-sharing chatgpt stores benefiting humanity?

[Auracle]

Funding further development in to AGI in the long term and creating new ways to make people more efficient in the short term?

[spaceman_2020]

Attracting developers arguably benefits humanity, and one way to do that is by sharing profits.

[rirarobo]

Yeah, no idea, I can only speculate, maybe Dev Day was just the final straw, or perhaps it was related to APEC and the whole world tour that Sam did to make deals with powerful actors, or maybe it was related to the rumored tender offer?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/technology/openai-artific...