[gsharma]

I wonder why they launched it today, when it was supposed to be a week-off for all OAI employees and amidst whatever else is going on?

One possibility is to capture Thanksgiving gatherings as a growth hack where people demo this to their families/friends and increase app downloads for OAI.

[reidjs]

Another possibility is that people who build products don’t actually care about leadership drama as much as Twitter or HN

[namocat]

Almost all of the OpenAI team signed a letter saying they would resign if the board is not replaced, so safe to say that they do care about the leadership drama; perhaps more than the rest of us.

[voiceblue]

There was at least one OpenAI employee on Blind [0] saying that they (unclear who "they" is but presumably some other employees) pressured employees into signing and called him in the middle of the night to do it. I just googled it and found a thread as well [1].

[0] https://teamblind.com

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/OpenAI-employees-did-you-sign...

[luma]

My theory is that it was nearing ready for release so they pushed it out to deflect some of the bad press over recent drama. I'd suspect the challenge with releasing something like this is about 2% "the code" and 98% scaling it out to everyone and making that not explode.