[throwaway4233]

The screenshot of the tweet thread at the end seemed to indicate that the alignment team wanted to explore other avenues(or models) to get to AGI, while the company leadership wanted to keep improving on the transformer models.

From the business point of view, continuing to improve the goose that is laying the golden eggs makes sense, but as a researcher they might have already ended up seeing the limit of adding compute and data, and wanted to pivot. As someone who worked a mid level manager/engineer, I can understand the frustration involved in making the management level understand what's really happening on the ground level.