- See Also
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Links
- “OpenAI Removes Sam Altman’s Ownership of Its Startup Fund”, Hu 2024
- “Mira Murati Commentary on NYT”, Murati 2024
- “Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster: Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Brought Questions about Mr. Altman’s Management to the Board Last Year Before He Was Briefly Ousted from the Company”, Isaac et al 2024
- “Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End: WilmerHale, the Law Firm Investigating Sam Altman, Could Present Its Findings to the Company’s Board As Soon As next Month”, Isaac & Metz 2024
- “SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled: Regulator Is Examining Internal Communications of CEO Sam Altman”, Seetharaman 2024
- “OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion: The A.I. Start-Up’s Valuation Tripled in Less Than 10 Months”, Metz & Mickle 2024
- “Sam Altman Owns OpenAI’s Venture Capital Fund”, Primack 2024
- “Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them: Silicon Valley’s Top Pundit Dishes on Her Memoir Burn Book, Immature Billionaires, and Whether She’s Actually Mean”, Levy 2024
- “Over 3 Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My Front-Row Seat to a Slow-Moving Catastrophe”, Swisher 2024
- “Altman Says ChatGPT Will Have to Evolve in ‘Uncomfortable’ Ways”, Heath 2024
- “Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO Lost the Confidence of Top Leaders in the Three Organizations He Has Directed, yet Each Time He’s Rebounded to Greater Heights”, Seetharaman et al 2023
- “How Microsoft’s Multibillion-Dollar Alliance With OpenAI Really Works: ChatGPT Maker Quietly Clarifies That Tech Giant Has No Equity despite $13bn Investment—But Is in Line to Make Big Profits”, Bradshaw et al 2023
- “Congratulations on a Smooth CEO Transition”, Altman 2023
- “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Split over the Leadership of Sam Altman, Board Members and Executives Turned on One Another. Their Brawl Exposed the Cracks at the Heart of the AI Movement”, Mickle et al 2023
- “Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny from US, UK Regulators”, Nylen 2023
- “OpenAI Cofounder Ilya Sutskever Has Become Invisible at the Company, With His Future Uncertain, Insiders Say”, Hays et al 2023
- “Warning from OpenAI Leaders Helped Trigger Sam Altman’s Ouster: The Senior Employees Described Altman As Psychologically Abusive, Creating Delays at the Artificial-Intelligence Start-Up—Complaints That Were a Major Factor in the Board’s Abrupt Decision to Fire the CEO”, Tiku 2023
- “The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side: In an Interview, AI Academic Helen Toner Explains Her Posture in OpenAI’s Power Struggle”, Bobrowsky & Seetharaman 2023
- “2023 CEO of the Year: Sam Altman”, Bajekal & Perrigo 2023
- “OpenAI Employees Really, Really Did Not Want to Go Work for Microsoft”, Hays et al 2023
- “OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence”, Dave 2023
- “Ego, Fear and Money: How the AI Fuse Was Lit: The People Who Were Most Afraid of the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Decided They Should Be the Ones to Build It. Then Distrust Fueled a Spiraling Competition”, Metz et al 2023
- “OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman”, Dave 2023
- garrytan @ "2023-12-02"
- “Microsoft Is Happy Being the Co-Pilot on the OpenAI Rocket Ship: There Are Benefits and Risks to Outsourcing the Development of a Technology As Crucial As AI”, Chafkin & Bass 2023
- “The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”, Duhigg 2023
- “Microsoft, OpenAI Tie-Up Comes under Antitrust Scrutiny”, M & Mehta 2023
- “When These Transitional Tasks Have Been Completed, I Intend to Step Away”, Taylor 2023
- “Today, I Officially Resigned from the OpenAI Board”, Toner 2023
- “Altman Tweets on OA Return”, Altman 2023
- “OpenAI Gives Employees Extra Month to Opt Into Plan to Sell Shares”, Ghaffary et al 2023
- “Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The Company’s CEO Is Back With Near-Unanimous Employee Support—And With Thorny Governance Issues to Address”, Ghaffary 2023
- “These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q✱ Project”, Knight 2023
- “OpenAI Not Expected to Offer Microsoft, Other Investors Seats on New Board: Report”, Barrabi 2023
- “Sam Altman Returns As CEO, OpenAI Has a New Initial Board: Mira Murati As CTO, Greg Brockman Returns As President. Read Messages from CEO Sam Altman and Board Chair Bret Taylor”, Altman & Taylor 2023
- “Back at OpenAI, Sam Altman Outlines the Company’s Priorities: In a Blog Post, Mr. Altman Said He Would Focus on Improving Products and Building a New Board, Which Added Microsoft As a Nonvoting Member”, Metz & Mickle 2023
- “Interview: Sam Altman on Being Fired and Rehired by OpenAI”, Heath 2023
- “OpenAI’s New Board Takes Over and Says Microsoft Will Have Observer Role: Group of Directors Will Expand and Strengthen Governance Structure following CEO Sam Altman’s Surprise Ouster and Return”, Seetharaman 2023
- “Why Won’t OpenAI Say What the Q✱ Algorithm Is? Supposed AI Breakthroughs Are Frequently Veiled in Secrecy, Hindering Scientific Consensus”, Hao 2023
- “It Was Really a Pure Fight over Control”, Klein 2023
- “OpenAI 2022 Form 990”, Clark 2023
- “Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an AI Giant’s Ties to China: American Spy Agencies Have Warned about the Emirati Firm G42 and Its Work With Large Chinese Companies That U.S. Officials Consider Security Threats”, Mazzetti & Wong 2023
- “On Sam Altman”, Achiam 2023
- “OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough ahead of CEO Ouster, Sources Say”, Tong et al 2023
- “Sam Altman Is No Different Than Most of the Talented Ones, Which Is to Say, Aggressive, Sometimes Imperious and Yes, Self-Serving”, Swisher 2023
- “Did I Get Sam Altman Fired from OpenAI?: Nathan’s Redteaming Experience, Noticing How the Board Was Not Aware of GPT-4 Jailbreaks & Had Not Even Tried GPT-4 prior to Its Early Release”, Labenz 2023
- “OpenAI Employees Reportedly Celebrated Sam Altman’s Return With a Smoke Machine-Filled Party That Triggered the Fire Alarm and 2 Fire Trucks”, Kay 2023
- “Altman’s Polarizing past Hints at OpenAI Board’s Reason for Firing Him: Before OpenAI, Altman Was Asked to Leave by His Mentor at the Prominent Start-Up Incubator Y Combinator, Part of a Pattern of Clashes That Some Attribute to His Self-Serving Approach”, Dwoskin & Tiku 2023
- “Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI: A Fired CEO, Middle-Finger Emojis and the Battle Royale over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, Hagey et al 2023
- “How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—And Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Firing Showed the Influence of Effective Altruism and Its View That AI Development Must Slow Down; His Return Marked Its Limits”, McMillan & Seetharaman 2023
- “I Feel Safe Expressing Myself to Leadership. I Love This Place”, Voss 2023
- “Sources Said Some Key Tension Was between Sam Altman & Helen Toner, Who Might Have Been Pressed to Leave the Board”, Swisher 2023
- “Microsoft Is Likely to Get Board Sets—Maybe 2”, Swisher 2023
- amasad @ "2023-11-21"
- micsolana @ "2023-11-21"
- “Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return”, Ludlow et al 2023
- “Sam Altman Confronted a Member over a Research Paper That Discussed the Company, While Directors Disagreed for Months about Who Should Fill Board Vacancies”, Metz et al 2023
- “OpenAI Investors considering Suing the Board After CEO's Abrupt Firing”, Tong et al 2023
- “Altman Agrees to Internal Investigation Upon Return to OpenAI”, Efrati et al 2023
- “OpenAI Investors Keep Pushing for Sam Altman’s Return”, Seetharaman 2023
- “Today I Got a Call Inviting Me to Consider a Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity: to Become the Interim CEO of OpenAI”, Shear 2023
- “We’re Extremely Excited to Share the News That Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Together With Colleagues, Will Be Joining Microsoft”, Nadella 2023
- “OpenAI Open Letter to Board of Directors”, employees 2023
- geoffreyirving @ "2023-11-20"
- teddyschleifer @ "2023-11-20"
- “OpenAI’s Employees Were given 2 Explanations for Why Sam Altman Was Fired. They’re Unconvinced and Furious”, Hays 2023
- “Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team—GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State”, Patel & Nishball 2023
- “Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team § Compute Is King”, Patel & Nishball 2023
- “OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence”, Khosla 2023
- “Sam Altman Is Still Trying to Return As OpenAI CEO”, Heath & Patel 2023
- “What We Know So Far About Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman”, Chafkin & Metz 2023
- paulg @ "2023-11-19"
- “Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster: Altman Was Fundraising in the Middle East for New Chip Venture; The Project, Code-Named Tigris, Is Intended to Rival Nvidia”, Ludlow & Vance 2023
- “She [Helen Toner] Did Not Expect to Be Busy on Thursday”, Habryka 2023
- “Reid Hoffman Was Privately Unhappy about Leaving OpenAI’s Board”, Albergotti 2023
- “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Weekend of Shock and Drama Began a Year Ago, With the Release of ChatGPT”, Hao & Warzel 2023
- “How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman”, Dave 2023
- “Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion”, Miller et al 2023
- “OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: With the Ousted OpenAI CEO Actively Discussing a New Artificial Intelligence Venture, Investors in His Previous Company Are Trying to Bring Him Back Using Microsoft and Key Employees As Leverage”, Konrad & Jeans 2023
- “The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The Departure of the High-Profile Boss of the San Francisco Company Drew Attention to a Philosophical Rift among the People Building New AI Systems”, Metz 2023
- “OpenAI Has Received Just a Fraction of Microsoft’s $10 Billion Investment”, Albergotti 2023
- “OpenAI’s $86 Billion Share Sale in Jeopardy Following Altman Firing”, Clark et al 2023
- “OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition”, Sutskever et al 2023
- ericschmidt @ "2023-11-17"
- “Sam Altman Forced Out Of OpenAI § Some Tidbits to Highlight”, Newcomer 2023
- “Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’”, Victor et al 2023
- “Early OpenAI Backer Khosla Defends Startup’s Complex Structure”, Victor 2023
- “OpenAI Chief Seeks New Microsoft Funds to Build ‘SUperintelligence’: Sam Altman Expects Big Tech Group Will Back Start-Up’s Mission to Create Software As Intelligent As Humans”, Murgia 2023
- “OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers”, Victor 2023
- “Microsoft’s Answer to OpenAI Inquiry: It Doesn’t Own a Stake: The Two Companies Have Sought to Telegraph Their Independence, but It’s Not Clear Regulators Will Buy the Argument”, Bass & Nylen 2023
- “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Once Said the Only Time He Ever 'Froze' Was When He Met His Childhood Idol Steve Jobs”, Nolan 2023
- “G42 and OpenAI Launch Partnership to Deploy Advanced AI Capabilities Optimized for the UAE and Broader Region”, G42 2023
- “Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO Thinks He Knows Our Future. What Do We Know about Him?”, Weil 2023
- garrytan @ "2023-09-15"
- “What OpenAI Really Wants”, Levy 2023
- “Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? The OpenAI CEO’s Ambitious, Ingenious, Terrifying Quest to Create a New Form of Intelligence”, Andersen 2023
- “Introducing Superalignment”, Leike & Sutskever 2023
- “Our Structure: We Designed OpenAI’s Structure—A Partnership between Our Original Nonprofit and a New Capped Profit Arm—As a Chassis for OpenAI’s Mission: to Build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) That Is Safe and Benefits All of Humanity”, OpenAI 2023
- “Sam Altman: You Should Not Trust Sam Altman. The OpenAI CEO Says Large AI Models Are so Powerful That Control of Them Must Be Democratized to All People in the near Future. (Good Luck With That.)”, Sullivan 2023
- “Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure: The Company Has Quietly Cornered the Emerging Software Market, and It’s Preparing to Cash In”, Chafkin & Bass 2023
- “Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”, Dotan & Seetharaman 2023
- “OpenAI Closes $300m Share Sale at $27b–29b Valuation”, Singh & Lunden 2023
- “Fusion Power by 2028? Microsoft Is Betting on It”, Halper 2023
- “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says the Remote Work ‘Experiment’ Was a Mistake—And ‘It’s Over’”, Mollman 2023
- “The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT Navigates the Line between Developing Artificial Intelligence on the Cutting Edge & Pushing Technology to Dystopia”, Jin & Hagey 2023
- “The Secret History of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI”, Albergotti 2023
- “The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All: An Artificial Intelligence Twitter Beef, Explained”, Huet 2023
- “Sam Altman Invested $180 Million into a Company Trying to Delay Death: Can Anti-Aging Breakthroughs Add 10 Healthy Years to the Human Life Span? The CEO of OpenAI Is Paying to Find Out”, Regalado 2023
- “OpenAI 2021 Form 990”, Clark 2022
- “Y Combinator = Growth: YC President Geoff Ralston Says He Isn’t Worried about the Competition”, Newcomer 2021
- “The Eternal Sunshine of Sam Altman: The Most Connected Millennial in Silicon Valley Is Staking His Fortune—And His Reputation—On Sci-Fi Moonshots in Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Fusion and Crypto. But Can His Optimism Survive Tech’s Winter of Discontent?”, Steinberg 2021
- “OpenAI 2020 Form 990 (California Version)”, 7.5.0.25 2021
- “OpenAI 2020 Form 990”, Clark 2021
- “Form 990 [OpenAI 2019]”, Clark 2020
- “The Messy, Secretive Reality behind OpenAI’s Bid to save the World: The AI Moonshot Was Founded in the Spirit of Transparency. This Is the inside Story of How Competitive Pressure Eroded That Idealism”, Hao 2020
- “Form 990 [OpenAI 2018]”, Clark 2019
- “Form 990 [OpenAI 2017]”, Clark 2019
- “How To Be Successful”, Altman 2019
- “OpenAI Charter: Our Charter Describes the Principles We Use to Execute on OpenAI’s Mission”, OpenAI 2018
- “Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-Stock Corporation OpenAI, Inc”, OpenAI 2017
- “Form 990 [OpenAI 2016]”, Clark 2016
- “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the Head of Y Combinator Fixing the World, or Trying to Take over Silicon Valley?”, Friend 2016
- “Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep AI Out of the Hands of the ‘Bad Guys’”, Fox 2015
- “The Best Long Con You Ever Pulled”, Wong & Altman 2015
- “Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF”, Kumparak 2014
- “Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the Guy Taking the Reins of the Influential Startup Program Y Combinator from Its Longtime Leader, Paul Graham”, Gannes 2014
- “TikTok Owner ByteDance Quietly Launched 4 Generative AI Apps Powered By OpenAI’s GPT”, Baker-White 2014
- “Value Is Created by Doing”, Altman 2014
- “Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations”, Dent 2014
- “Congratulations, Sam!”, Graham 2012
- “How Sam Altman Got Loopt Investment”, Cook 2011
- “Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin”, Ohanian 2011
- “The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, Banja 2010
- “Five Founders”, Graham 2009
- “A Fundraising Survival Guide”, Graham 2008
- “A Student’s Guide To Startups”, Graham 2006
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Links
“OpenAI Removes Sam Altman’s Ownership of Its Startup Fund”, Hu 2024
“Mira Murati Commentary on NYT”, Murati 2024
“Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster: Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Brought Questions about Mr. Altman’s Management to the Board Last Year Before He Was Briefly Ousted from the Company”, Isaac et al 2024
“Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End: WilmerHale, the Law Firm Investigating Sam Altman, Could Present Its Findings to the Company’s Board As Soon As next Month”, Isaac & Metz 2024
“SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled: Regulator Is Examining Internal Communications of CEO Sam Altman”, Seetharaman 2024
“OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion: The A.I. Start-Up’s Valuation Tripled in Less Than 10 Months”, Metz & Mickle 2024
“Sam Altman Owns OpenAI’s Venture Capital Fund”, Primack 2024
“Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them: Silicon Valley’s Top Pundit Dishes on Her Memoir Burn Book, Immature Billionaires, and Whether She’s Actually Mean”, Levy 2024
“Over 3 Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My Front-Row Seat to a Slow-Moving Catastrophe”, Swisher 2024
Over 3 Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
“Altman Says ChatGPT Will Have to Evolve in ‘Uncomfortable’ Ways”, Heath 2024
Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in ‘uncomfortable’ ways
“Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO Lost the Confidence of Top Leaders in the Three Organizations He Has Directed, yet Each Time He’s Rebounded to Greater Heights”, Seetharaman et al 2023
“How Microsoft’s Multibillion-Dollar Alliance With OpenAI Really Works: ChatGPT Maker Quietly Clarifies That Tech Giant Has No Equity despite $13bn Investment—But Is in Line to Make Big Profits”, Bradshaw et al 2023
“Congratulations on a Smooth CEO Transition”, Altman 2023
“Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Split over the Leadership of Sam Altman, Board Members and Executives Turned on One Another. Their Brawl Exposed the Cracks at the Heart of the AI Movement”, Mickle et al 2023
“Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny from US, UK Regulators”, Nylen 2023
Microsoft's OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny from US, UK Regulators
“OpenAI Cofounder Ilya Sutskever Has Become Invisible at the Company, With His Future Uncertain, Insiders Say”, Hays et al 2023
“Warning from OpenAI Leaders Helped Trigger Sam Altman’s Ouster: The Senior Employees Described Altman As Psychologically Abusive, Creating Delays at the Artificial-Intelligence Start-Up—Complaints That Were a Major Factor in the Board’s Abrupt Decision to Fire the CEO”, Tiku 2023
“The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side: In an Interview, AI Academic Helen Toner Explains Her Posture in OpenAI’s Power Struggle”, Bobrowsky & Seetharaman 2023
“2023 CEO of the Year: Sam Altman”, Bajekal & Perrigo 2023
“OpenAI Employees Really, Really Did Not Want to Go Work for Microsoft”, Hays et al 2023
OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft
“OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence”, Dave 2023
OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence
“Ego, Fear and Money: How the AI Fuse Was Lit: The People Who Were Most Afraid of the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Decided They Should Be the Ones to Build It. Then Distrust Fueled a Spiraling Competition”, Metz et al 2023
“OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman”, Dave 2023
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman
garrytan @ "2023-12-02"
“Microsoft Is Happy Being the Co-Pilot on the OpenAI Rocket Ship: There Are Benefits and Risks to Outsourcing the Development of a Technology As Crucial As AI”, Chafkin & Bass 2023
“The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”, Duhigg 2023
“Microsoft, OpenAI Tie-Up Comes under Antitrust Scrutiny”, M & Mehta 2023
“When These Transitional Tasks Have Been Completed, I Intend to Step Away”, Taylor 2023
When these transitional tasks have been completed, I intend to step away
“Today, I Officially Resigned from the OpenAI Board”, Toner 2023
“Altman Tweets on OA Return”, Altman 2023
“OpenAI Gives Employees Extra Month to Opt Into Plan to Sell Shares”, Ghaffary et al 2023
OpenAI Gives Employees Extra Month to Opt Into Plan to Sell Shares
“Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The Company’s CEO Is Back With Near-Unanimous Employee Support—And With Thorny Governance Issues to Address”, Ghaffary 2023
“These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q✱ Project”, Knight 2023
These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q✱ Project
“OpenAI Not Expected to Offer Microsoft, Other Investors Seats on New Board: Report”, Barrabi 2023
OpenAI not expected to offer Microsoft, other investors seats on new board: report
“Sam Altman Returns As CEO, OpenAI Has a New Initial Board: Mira Murati As CTO, Greg Brockman Returns As President. Read Messages from CEO Sam Altman and Board Chair Bret Taylor”, Altman & Taylor 2023
“Back at OpenAI, Sam Altman Outlines the Company’s Priorities: In a Blog Post, Mr. Altman Said He Would Focus on Improving Products and Building a New Board, Which Added Microsoft As a Nonvoting Member”, Metz & Mickle 2023
“Interview: Sam Altman on Being Fired and Rehired by OpenAI”, Heath 2023
“OpenAI’s New Board Takes Over and Says Microsoft Will Have Observer Role: Group of Directors Will Expand and Strengthen Governance Structure following CEO Sam Altman’s Surprise Ouster and Return”, Seetharaman 2023
“Why Won’t OpenAI Say What the Q✱ Algorithm Is? Supposed AI Breakthroughs Are Frequently Veiled in Secrecy, Hindering Scientific Consensus”, Hao 2023
“It Was Really a Pure Fight over Control”, Klein 2023
“OpenAI 2022 Form 990”, Clark 2023
“Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an AI Giant’s Ties to China: American Spy Agencies Have Warned about the Emirati Firm G42 and Its Work With Large Chinese Companies That U.S. Officials Consider Security Threats”, Mazzetti & Wong 2023
“On Sam Altman”, Achiam 2023
“OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough ahead of CEO Ouster, Sources Say”, Tong et al 2023
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
“Sam Altman Is No Different Than Most of the Talented Ones, Which Is to Say, Aggressive, Sometimes Imperious and Yes, Self-Serving”, Swisher 2023
“Did I Get Sam Altman Fired from OpenAI?: Nathan’s Redteaming Experience, Noticing How the Board Was Not Aware of GPT-4 Jailbreaks & Had Not Even Tried GPT-4 prior to Its Early Release”, Labenz 2023
“OpenAI Employees Reportedly Celebrated Sam Altman’s Return With a Smoke Machine-Filled Party That Triggered the Fire Alarm and 2 Fire Trucks”, Kay 2023
“Altman’s Polarizing past Hints at OpenAI Board’s Reason for Firing Him: Before OpenAI, Altman Was Asked to Leave by His Mentor at the Prominent Start-Up Incubator Y Combinator, Part of a Pattern of Clashes That Some Attribute to His Self-Serving Approach”, Dwoskin & Tiku 2023
“Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI: A Fired CEO, Middle-Finger Emojis and the Battle Royale over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, Hagey et al 2023
“How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—And Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Firing Showed the Influence of Effective Altruism and Its View That AI Development Must Slow Down; His Return Marked Its Limits”, McMillan & Seetharaman 2023
“I Feel Safe Expressing Myself to Leadership. I Love This Place”, Voss 2023
I feel safe expressing myself to leadership. I love this place
“Sources Said Some Key Tension Was between Sam Altman & Helen Toner, Who Might Have Been Pressed to Leave the Board”, Swisher 2023
“Microsoft Is Likely to Get Board Sets—Maybe 2”, Swisher 2023
amasad @ "2023-11-21"
micsolana @ "2023-11-21"
“Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return”, Ludlow et al 2023
Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return
“Sam Altman Confronted a Member over a Research Paper That Discussed the Company, While Directors Disagreed for Months about Who Should Fill Board Vacancies”, Metz et al 2023
“OpenAI Investors considering Suing the Board After CEO's Abrupt Firing”, Tong et al 2023
OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
“Altman Agrees to Internal Investigation Upon Return to OpenAI”, Efrati et al 2023
Altman Agrees to Internal Investigation Upon Return to OpenAI
“OpenAI Investors Keep Pushing for Sam Altman’s Return”, Seetharaman 2023
“Today I Got a Call Inviting Me to Consider a Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity: to Become the Interim CEO of OpenAI”, Shear 2023
“We’re Extremely Excited to Share the News That Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Together With Colleagues, Will Be Joining Microsoft”, Nadella 2023
“OpenAI Open Letter to Board of Directors”, employees 2023
geoffreyirving @ "2023-11-20"
teddyschleifer @ "2023-11-20"
“OpenAI’s Employees Were given 2 Explanations for Why Sam Altman Was Fired. They’re Unconvinced and Furious”, Hays 2023
“Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team—GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State”, Patel & Nishball 2023
“Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team § Compute Is King”, Patel & Nishball 2023
“OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence”, Khosla 2023
OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
“Sam Altman Is Still Trying to Return As OpenAI CEO”, Heath & Patel 2023
“What We Know So Far About Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman”, Chafkin & Metz 2023
paulg @ "2023-11-19"
No one in the world is better than Sam at dealing with this kind of situation.
“Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster: Altman Was Fundraising in the Middle East for New Chip Venture; The Project, Code-Named Tigris, Is Intended to Rival Nvidia”, Ludlow & Vance 2023
“She [Helen Toner] Did Not Expect to Be Busy on Thursday”, Habryka 2023
“Reid Hoffman Was Privately Unhappy about Leaving OpenAI’s Board”, Albergotti 2023
Reid Hoffman was privately unhappy about leaving OpenAI’s board
“Inside the Chaos at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Weekend of Shock and Drama Began a Year Ago, With the Release of ChatGPT”, Hao & Warzel 2023
“How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman”, Dave 2023
How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
“Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion”, Miller et al 2023
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion
“OpenAI Investors Plot Last-Minute Push With Microsoft To Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: With the Ousted OpenAI CEO Actively Discussing a New Artificial Intelligence Venture, Investors in His Previous Company Are Trying to Bring Him Back Using Microsoft and Key Employees As Leverage”, Konrad & Jeans 2023
“The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The Departure of the High-Profile Boss of the San Francisco Company Drew Attention to a Philosophical Rift among the People Building New AI Systems”, Metz 2023
“OpenAI Has Received Just a Fraction of Microsoft’s $10 Billion Investment”, Albergotti 2023
OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment
“OpenAI’s $86 Billion Share Sale in Jeopardy Following Altman Firing”, Clark et al 2023
OpenAI’s $86 Billion Share Sale in Jeopardy Following Altman Firing
“OpenAI Announces Leadership Transition”, Sutskever et al 2023
ericschmidt @ "2023-11-17"
“Sam Altman Forced Out Of OpenAI § Some Tidbits to Highlight”, Newcomer 2023
“Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’”, Victor et al 2023
Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’
“Early OpenAI Backer Khosla Defends Startup’s Complex Structure”, Victor 2023
Early OpenAI Backer Khosla Defends Startup’s Complex Structure
“OpenAI Chief Seeks New Microsoft Funds to Build ‘SUperintelligence’: Sam Altman Expects Big Tech Group Will Back Start-Up’s Mission to Create Software As Intelligent As Humans”, Murgia 2023
“OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers”, Victor 2023
OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers
“Microsoft’s Answer to OpenAI Inquiry: It Doesn’t Own a Stake: The Two Companies Have Sought to Telegraph Their Independence, but It’s Not Clear Regulators Will Buy the Argument”, Bass & Nylen 2023
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Once Said the Only Time He Ever 'Froze' Was When He Met His Childhood Idol Steve Jobs”, Nolan 2023
“G42 and OpenAI Launch Partnership to Deploy Advanced AI Capabilities Optimized for the UAE and Broader Region”, G42 2023
“Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO Thinks He Knows Our Future. What Do We Know about Him?”, Weil 2023
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“What OpenAI Really Wants”, Levy 2023
“Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? The OpenAI CEO’s Ambitious, Ingenious, Terrifying Quest to Create a New Form of Intelligence”, Andersen 2023
“Introducing Superalignment”, Leike & Sutskever 2023
“Our Structure: We Designed OpenAI’s Structure—A Partnership between Our Original Nonprofit and a New Capped Profit Arm—As a Chassis for OpenAI’s Mission: to Build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) That Is Safe and Benefits All of Humanity”, OpenAI 2023
“Sam Altman: You Should Not Trust Sam Altman. The OpenAI CEO Says Large AI Models Are so Powerful That Control of Them Must Be Democratized to All People in the near Future. (Good Luck With That.)”, Sullivan 2023
“Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure: The Company Has Quietly Cornered the Emerging Software Market, and It’s Preparing to Cash In”, Chafkin & Bass 2023
“Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”, Dotan & Seetharaman 2023
“OpenAI Closes $300m Share Sale at $27b–29b Valuation”, Singh & Lunden 2023
“Fusion Power by 2028? Microsoft Is Betting on It”, Halper 2023
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says the Remote Work ‘Experiment’ Was a Mistake—And ‘It’s Over’”, Mollman 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake—and ‘it’s over’
“The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT Navigates the Line between Developing Artificial Intelligence on the Cutting Edge & Pushing Technology to Dystopia”, Jin & Hagey 2023
“The Secret History of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI”, Albergotti 2023
“The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All: An Artificial Intelligence Twitter Beef, Explained”, Huet 2023
“Sam Altman Invested $180 Million into a Company Trying to Delay Death: Can Anti-Aging Breakthroughs Add 10 Healthy Years to the Human Life Span? The CEO of OpenAI Is Paying to Find Out”, Regalado 2023
“OpenAI 2021 Form 990”, Clark 2022
“Y Combinator = Growth: YC President Geoff Ralston Says He Isn’t Worried about the Competition”, Newcomer 2021
Y Combinator = Growth: YC President Geoff Ralston says he isn’t worried about the competition
“The Eternal Sunshine of Sam Altman: The Most Connected Millennial in Silicon Valley Is Staking His Fortune—And His Reputation—On Sci-Fi Moonshots in Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Fusion and Crypto. But Can His Optimism Survive Tech’s Winter of Discontent?”, Steinberg 2021
“OpenAI 2020 Form 990 (California Version)”, 7.5.0.25 2021
“OpenAI 2020 Form 990”, Clark 2021
“Form 990 [OpenAI 2019]”, Clark 2020
“The Messy, Secretive Reality behind OpenAI’s Bid to save the World: The AI Moonshot Was Founded in the Spirit of Transparency. This Is the inside Story of How Competitive Pressure Eroded That Idealism”, Hao 2020
“Form 990 [OpenAI 2018]”, Clark 2019
“Form 990 [OpenAI 2017]”, Clark 2019
“How To Be Successful”, Altman 2019
“OpenAI Charter: Our Charter Describes the Principles We Use to Execute on OpenAI’s Mission”, OpenAI 2018
OpenAI Charter: Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission
“Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-Stock Corporation OpenAI, Inc”, OpenAI 2017
Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-Stock Corporation OpenAI, Inc
“Form 990 [OpenAI 2016]”, Clark 2016
“Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the Head of Y Combinator Fixing the World, or Trying to Take over Silicon Valley?”, Friend 2016
“Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep AI Out of the Hands of the ‘Bad Guys’”, Fox 2015
Sam Altman on His Plan to Keep AI Out of the Hands of the ‘Bad Guys’
“The Best Long Con You Ever Pulled”, Wong & Altman 2015
“Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF”, Kumparak 2014
Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF
“Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the Guy Taking the Reins of the Influential Startup Program Y Combinator from Its Longtime Leader, Paul Graham”, Gannes 2014
“TikTok Owner ByteDance Quietly Launched 4 Generative AI Apps Powered By OpenAI’s GPT”, Baker-White 2014
TikTok Owner ByteDance Quietly Launched 4 Generative AI Apps Powered By OpenAI’s GPT
“Value Is Created by Doing”, Altman 2014
“Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations”, Dent 2014
Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations
“Congratulations, Sam!”, Graham 2012
“How Sam Altman Got Loopt Investment”, Cook 2011
“Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin”, Ohanian 2011
“The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, Banja 2010
“Five Founders”, Graham 2009
“A Fundraising Survival Guide”, Graham 2008
“A Student’s Guide To Startups”, Graham 2006
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html: “Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster: Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Brought Questions about Mr. Altman’s Management to the Board Last Year Before He Was Briefly Ousted from the Company”, Mike Isaac, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz -
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/open-ai-investigation.html: “Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End: WilmerHale, the Law Firm Investigating Sam Altman, Could Present Its Findings to the Company’s Board As Soon As next Month”, Mike Isaac, Cade Metz -
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/technology/openai-artificial-intelligence-deal-valuation.html: “OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion: The A.I. Start-Up’s Valuation Tripled in Less Than 10 Months”, Cade Metz, Tripp Mickle -
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/15/sam-altman-openai-startup-fund: “Sam Altman Owns OpenAI’s Venture Capital Fund”, Dan Primack -
https://www.wired.com/story/kara-swisher-burn-book/: “Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them: Silicon Valley’s Top Pundit Dishes on Her Memoir Burn Book, Immature Billionaires, and Whether She’s Actually Mean”, Steven Levy -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68: “Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends: The OpenAI CEO Lost the Confidence of Top Leaders in the Three Organizations He Has Directed, yet Each Time He’s Rebounded to Greater Heights”, Deepa Seetharaman, Keach Hagey, Berber Jin, Kate Linebaugh -
https://www.ft.com/content/458b162d-c97a-4464-8afc-72d65afb28ed: “How Microsoft’s Multibillion-Dollar Alliance With OpenAI Really Works: ChatGPT Maker Quietly Clarifies That Tech Giant Has No Equity despite $13bn Investment—But Is in Line to Make Big Profits”, Tim Bradshaw, Madhumita Murgia, George Hammond, Camilla Hodgson -
2023-12-12-samaltman-twitter-congratulationsonasmoothceotransition.html: “Congratulations on a Smooth CEO Transition”, Sam Altman -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/technology/openai-altman-inside-crisis.html: “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Split over the Leadership of Sam Altman, Board Members and Executives Turned on One Another. Their Brawl Exposed the Cracks at the Heart of the AI Movement”, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise -
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofounder-ilya-sutskever-invisible-future-uncertain-2023-12: “OpenAI Cofounder Ilya Sutskever Has Become Invisible at the Company, With His Future Uncertain, Insiders Say”, Kali Hays, Ashley Stewart, Darius Rafieyan, Shona Ghosh -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/08/open-ai-sam-altman-complaints/: “Warning from OpenAI Leaders Helped Trigger Sam Altman’s Ouster: The Senior Employees Described Altman As Psychologically Abusive, Creating Delays at the Artificial-Intelligence Start-Up—Complaints That Were a Major Factor in the Board’s Abrupt Decision to Fire the CEO”, Nitasha Tiku -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/helen-toner-openai-board-2e4031ef: “The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side: In an Interview, AI Academic Helen Toner Explains Her Posture in OpenAI’s Power Struggle”, Meghan Bobrowsky, Deepa Seetharaman -
https://time.com/6342827/ceo-of-the-year-2023-sam-altman/: “2023 CEO of the Year: Sam Altman”, Naina Bajekal, Billy Perrigo -
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-employees-did-not-want-to-work-for-microsoft-2023-12: “OpenAI Employees Really, Really Did Not Want to Go Work for Microsoft”, Kali Hays, Ashley Stewart, Darius Rafieyan -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk-page-altman.html: “Ego, Fear and Money: How the AI Fuse Was Lit: The People Who Were Most Afraid of the Risks of Artificial Intelligence Decided They Should Be the Ones to Build It. Then Distrust Fueled a Spiraling Competition”, Cade Metz, Karen Weise, Nico Grant. Mike Isaac -
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/: “OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman”, Paresh Dave -
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/the-inside-story-of-microsofts-partnership-with-openai: “The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership With OpenAI: The Companies Had Honed a Protocol for Releasing Artificial Intelligence Ambitiously but Safely. Then OpenAI’s Board Exploded All Their Carefully Laid Plans”, Charles Duhigg -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/sam-altman-won-the-war-for-openai-now-comes-winning-the-peace: “Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace: The Company’s CEO Is Back With Near-Unanimous Employee Support—And With Thorny Governance Issues to Address”, Shirin Ghaffary -
https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/business/openai-not-expected-to-offer-microsoft-other-investors-seats-on-new-board-report/: “OpenAI Not Expected to Offer Microsoft, Other Investors Seats on New Board: Report”, Thomas Barrabi -
https://openai.com/blog/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board: “Sam Altman Returns As CEO, OpenAI Has a New Initial Board: Mira Murati As CTO, Greg Brockman Returns As President. Read Messages from CEO Sam Altman and Board Chair Bret Taylor”, Sam Altman, Bret Taylor -
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired: “Interview: Sam Altman on Being Fired and Rehired by OpenAI”, Alex Heath -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/us/politics/ai-us-uae-china-security-g42.html: “Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an AI Giant’s Ties to China: American Spy Agencies Have Warned about the Emirati Firm G42 and Its Work With Large Chinese Companies That U.S. Officials Consider Security Threats”, Mark Mazzetti, Edward Wong -
2023-11-24-joashuachiam-twitter-onsamaltman.html: “On Sam Altman”, Joshua Achiam -
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/: “OpenAI Researchers Warned Board of AI Breakthrough ahead of CEO Ouster, Sources Say”, Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu -
2023-11-22-karaswisher-twitter-onsamaltman.html: “Sam Altman Is No Different Than Most of the Talented Ones, Which Is to Say, Aggressive, Sometimes Imperious and Yes, Self-Serving”, Kara Swisher -
https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/p/did-i-get-sam-altman-fired-from-openai: “Did I Get Sam Altman Fired from OpenAI?: Nathan’s Redteaming Experience, Noticing How the Board Was Not Aware of GPT-4 Jailbreaks & Had Not Even Tried GPT-4 prior to Its Early Release”, Nathan Labenz -
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-staff-celebrate-sam-altman-return-party-fire-alarm-report-2023-11: “OpenAI Employees Reportedly Celebrated Sam Altman’s Return With a Smoke Machine-Filled Party That Triggered the Fire Alarm and 2 Fire Trucks”, Grace Kay -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham/: “Altman’s Polarizing past Hints at OpenAI Board’s Reason for Firing Him: Before OpenAI, Altman Was Asked to Leave by His Mentor at the Prominent Start-Up Incubator Y Combinator, Part of a Pattern of Clashes That Some Attribute to His Self-Serving Approach”, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8c: “Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman’s Showdown at OpenAI: A Fired CEO, Middle-Finger Emojis and the Battle Royale over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, Keach Hagey, Deepa Seetharaman, Berber Jin -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-blowup-effective-altruism-disaster-f46a55e8: “How a Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley—And Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Firing Showed the Influence of Effective Altruism and Its View That AI Development Must Slow Down; His Return Marked Its Limits”, Robert McMillan, Deepa Seetharaman -
2023-11-21-chelseavoss-twitter-onsamaltmanandgregbrockmancontrageoffreyirving.html: “I Feel Safe Expressing Myself to Leadership. I Love This Place”, Chelsea Voss -
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1727132931024728239: “On Helen Toner”, Mike Solana -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/altman-openai-board-open-talks-to-negotiate-his-possible-return: “Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return”, Edward Ludlow, Emily Chang, Ashlee Vance -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-board-fight.html: “Sam Altman Confronted a Member over a Research Paper That Discussed the Company, While Directors Disagreed for Months about Who Should Fill Board Vacancies”, Cade Metz, Tripp Mickle, Mike Isaac -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-employees-threaten-to-quit-unless-board-resigns-bbd5cc86: “OpenAI Investors Keep Pushing for Sam Altman’s Return”, Deepa Seetharaman -
2023-11-20-emmettshear-twitter-openaiceo.html: “Today I Got a Call Inviting Me to Consider a Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity: to Become the Interim CEO of OpenAI”, Emmett Shear -
https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1726644226006700522: “Here’s the Truth about This Weekend’s PR Wars”, Teddy Schleifer -
https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-explanations-why-sam-altman-out-2023-11: “OpenAI’s Employees Were given 2 Explanations for Why Sam Altman Was Fired. They’re Unconvinced and Furious”, Kali Hays -
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/microsoft-swallows-openais-core-team: “Microsoft Swallows OpenAI’s Core Team—GPU Capacity, Incentive Structure, Intellectual Property, OpenAI Rump State”, Dylan Patel, Daniel Nishball -
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-board-set-back-the-promise-of-artificial-intelligence: “OpenAI’s Board Set Back the Promise of Artificial Intelligence”, Vinod Khosla -
https://time.com/6337437/sam-altman-openai-fired-why-microsoft-musk/: “What We Know So Far About Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman”, Max Chafkin, Rachel Metz -
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-privately-unhappy-about-leaving-openais-board: “Reid Hoffman Was Privately Unhappy about Leaving OpenAI’s Board”, Reed Albergotti -
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/: “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Weekend of Shock and Drama Began a Year Ago, With the Release of ChatGPT”, Karen Hao, Charlie Warzel -
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-bizarre-structure-4-people-the-power-to-fire-sam-altman/: “How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman”, Paresh Dave -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-altman-ouster-followed-debates-between-altman-board: “Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion”, Hannah Miller, Brad Stone, Shirin Ghaffary, Ashlee Vance -
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/open-ai-sam-altman-what-happened.html: “The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI: The Departure of the High-Profile Boss of the San Francisco Company Drew Attention to a Philosophical Rift among the People Building New AI Systems”, Cade Metz -
https://www.newcomer.co/p/sam-altman-forced-out-of-openai-by#%C2%A7wanted-to-highlight-a-couple-tidbits-for-you-while-the-world-tries-to-figure-out-what-happened: “Sam Altman Forced Out Of OpenAI § Some Tidbits to Highlight”, Eric Newcomer -
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/before-openai-ousted-altman-employees-disagreed-over-ai-safety: “Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’”, Jon Victor, Stephanie Palazzolo, Anissa Gardizy, Amir Efrati -
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html: “Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age: OpenAI’s CEO Thinks He Knows Our Future. What Do We Know about Him?”, Elizabeth Weil -
https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/: “What OpenAI Really Wants”, Steven Levy -
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4/674764/: “Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? The OpenAI CEO’s Ambitious, Ingenious, Terrifying Quest to Create a New Form of Intelligence”, Ross Andersen -
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment: “Introducing Superalignment”, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever -
https://openai.com/our-structure: “Our Structure: We Designed OpenAI’s Structure—A Partnership between Our Original Nonprofit and a New Capped Profit Arm—As a Chassis for OpenAI’s Mission: to Build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) That Is Safe and Benefits All of Humanity”, OpenAI -
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-forge-awkward-partnership-as-techs-new-power-couple-3092de51: “Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership As Tech’s New Power Couple: As the Companies Lead the AI Boom, Their Unconventional Arrangement Sometimes Causes Conflict”, Tom Dotan, Deepa Seetharaman -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-b0e1c8c9: “The Contradictions of Sam Altman, AI Crusader: The CEO behind ChatGPT Navigates the Line between Developing Artificial Intelligence on the Cutting Edge & Pushing Technology to Dystopia”, Berber Jin, Keach Hagey -
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai: “The Secret History of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI”, Reed Albergotti -
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069523/sam-altman-investment-180-million-retro-biosciences-longevity-death/: “Sam Altman Invested $180 Million into a Company Trying to Delay Death: Can Anti-Aging Breakthroughs Add 10 Healthy Years to the Human Life Span? The CEO of OpenAI Is Paying to Find Out”, Antonio Regalado -
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/: “The Messy, Secretive Reality behind OpenAI’s Bid to save the World: The AI Moonshot Was Founded in the Spirit of Transparency. This Is the inside Story of How Competitive Pressure Eroded That Idealism”, Karen Hao -
https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful: “How To Be Successful”, Sam Altman -
https://openai.com/charter: “OpenAI Charter: Our Charter Describes the Principles We Use to Execute on OpenAI’s Mission”, OpenAI -
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny: “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the Head of Y Combinator Fixing the World, or Trying to Take over Silicon Valley?”, Tad Friend -
https://www.vox.com/2014/3/18/11624658/y-combinators-new-head-startup-whisperer-sam-altman-is-quite-a-talker: “Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker: Meet the Guy Taking the Reins of the Influential Startup Program Y Combinator from Its Longtime Leader, Paul Graham”, Liz Gannes -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3686090: “Congratulations, Sam!”, Paul Graham -
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-sam-garry-emmett-and-justin: “Welcome Sam, Garry, Emmett, and Justin”, Alexis Ohanian -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821100/: “The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, John Banja