[sebzim4500]

I doubt OpenAI employees will take much of a loss, Sam Altman will probably get MSFT to match their salaries, and they will still have a licence to use most of the OpenAI IP including GPT-4 weights.

The real loss is taken by the other OpenAI investors.

[rvnx]

An interesting side-effect, is that Sam and others could use their influence to push internal people at OpenAI to release their models and weights, so other companies can build upon them.