| This post is a bad analysis. > While some will praise Satya Nadella and hero-worship Sam Altman, breaking OpenAI into two parts will slow down momentum for LLMs and research while handing even more power to the Cloud and Azure in its future Except that Microsoft nor Sam is responsible for the breaking of OpenAI. It was the non-profit board. Instead now Sam and co will have access to the Microsoft war chest, funding for more compute, chip design, and datasets so if anything they’ll probably move even faster than before. > Microsoft taking Sam Atman and his followers in, is like shutting down your best investment just for a short-term benefit. These stories don’t usually end well for big corporations. Again this makes little sense and its very clearly obvious how this makes long term sense for Microsoft. Also they did not initiate this move by OAI > It’s the job of Venture Capitalist to praise Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman to vilify OpenAI’s board in all of this. No it isn’t > Microsoft eating OpenAI and poaching their talent, is the worst possible scenario for the startup that was just beginning to get momentum. No firing the beloved CEO of the fastest growing tech startup in a decade and ignoring warnings from 80% of employees that they would quit is the worst scenario for a startup regardless of what Microsoft does This whole post seems like really bad pattern matching by someone who is anti capitalism and tries to frame every scenario they see in business through that lens |
How do you know?
We don't know the reasons for Altman's dismissal in the first place.
Maybe MS was involved and the board acted in panic mode to prevent an hostile takeover.
>ignoring warnings from 80% of employees
The warning came after the firing.