The 100-hour "palace fighting drama" of OpenAI, an open artificial intelligence research center in the United States, has come to an end! Who is the winner of this farce?
The power struggle within OpenAI has caught people off guard, and since CEO "Ultraman" was inexplicably expelled from the center of power, a war without gunpowder has quietly begun.
According to the latest reports, after more than 100 hours, OpenAI's power struggle seems to have ushered in the final chapter, and the "Ultraman" who was expelled by the board of directors was invited to return again, and the plot that has been reversed many times before is more like a farce directed and acted by himself, and many domestic netizens joked that foreigners have also started to play the script.
How exactly did OpenAI's farce play out? Why are there so many "famous scenes"? This may start with a decision by the board of directors. In fact, OpenAI's farce is essentially a power struggle. The board of directors believes that OpenAI can still function without "Sam Ultraman", and can even shuffle personnel within the company to take the advantage into its own hands.
Obviously, "Ultraman", the founder of OpenAI, who is known as the father of ChatGPT, is the same as Jobs back then, and the OpenAI board of directors did not learn the lessons of Apple and Jobs, otherwise how could the founder be expelled?
What's even more outrageous is that "Ultraman" was unaware of it when he was expelled from the center of power, and even Greg Brockman, the chairman and president of OpenAI who co-founded with him, only learned about it through the news. In other words, the OpenAI Board of Directors has implemented **. However, this time ** did not achieve the desired effect, on the contrary, the board of directors was counterattacked.
As soon as Ultraman was expelled from the center of power, the Board of Directors of the Rear Foot couldn't wait to announce that it would hire **Stream*** Twitch co-founder Mitt Hill to take over as interim CEO. But Hill did not accept the invitation, and in the eyes of the discerning person, it was undoubtedly a hot potato.
In fact, after the removal of "Ultraman", the board of directors quickly contacted other executives to try to force Gong to usurp the throne, but this series of operations did not receive a response from others, on the contrary, the attitude of many people was to refuse.
Subsequently, the party "Ultraman" also spoke on social platforms, mainly containing three key information: first, he had not received the news of the board of directors removing him before this, so he was very confused;Secondly, he is very passionate about OpenAI;Finally, he hoped that the board would not go too far, or he would confront the board head-on.
At first, the board of directors did not take "Ultraman's" voice seriously, but when Brockman said that he would advance and retreat with his good brothers, resign from all positions in the company, and the core personnel within the company left one after another, causing the core team to fall apart, the board finally panicked.
How confused is the OpenAI board?From the moment they decided to expel the founder "Ultraman" from the company, the direction of this plot was already predestined.
It is no exaggeration to say that "Ultraman" is the soul of OpenAI, and OpenAI without "Ultraman" is a plate of scattered sand.
Relevant executives have supported the former CEO "Ultraman" and chose to resign, and three senior researchers resigned and followed "Ultraman", and many employees in the company decided to make the first decision of the board of directors.
For a time, the originally promising OpenAI company became chaotic due to the "death" behavior of the board of directors. To make matters worse, "Ultraman", the founder of OpenAI's board of directors "unwanted", was scrambled by Microsoft, and former president Brockman also joined Microsoft's AI team.
Ultraman" even went so far as to directly ** Microsoft's post and said: "The mission continues. For a while, Microsoft's stock price hit a new high, which may have been unexpected by the OpenAI board.
At the same time, 490 employees threatened with resignation, demanding that "either the board be fired or the founder Altman returned." ”
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and many other employees bluntly said: "OpenAI is useless without employees!."In addition, many OpenAI users have also said that they will consider switching to the arms of their competitors. Faced with such a situation, the board of directors of OpenAI finally couldn't sit still, and the driving force behind the escalation of this power struggle was still Microsoft. Microsoft said: "Willing to accept OpenAI employees!."”
Obviously, the sloppy ** of the openai board of directors was not exchanged for the pride of stealing ripe fruits, but the embarrassment of being slapped in the face by reality.
A decision that makes other companies a big success and tears their own company apart is clearly not the situation that OpenAI's board of directors expected when they ousted founder "Ultraman". OpenAI's power struggle has gone through many twists and turns, more than 100 hours of reversal and reversal, and finally ushered in the "finale" - Ultraman's return to OpenAI.
Prior to this, "Ultraman" said on social platforms that "the development of OpenAI is regarded as a top priority", which pushed the OpenAI board of directors who made hasty decisions to the forefront, after all, one focuses on the future and the other only cares about the present.
When "Ultraman" returned to OpenAI, this power struggle without gunpowder came to an end temporarily, and 3 of the board members who had previously insisted on expelling "Ultraman" were expelled from the board of directors and reinstated their "free bodies". Ironically, former board member Suzkwi initially supported the removal of founder "Ultraman", but soon defected and took the lead in signing an open letter from OpenAI employees demanding the resignation of the board.
At present, OpenAI has "invited" both "Ultraman" and former President Brockman back, and the previously arrogant board of directors has been replaced, and only one of the four original board members is left D'Angelo, who is considered an AI conservative.
Judging from the current situation, the winner of this power struggle of OpenAI is "Ultraman", and the loser is the expelled 3 former board members. But from the company's point of view, OpenAI lost this power struggle, its own employees went on strike, key technicians left one after another, and the company's internal vitality was greatly damaged, while competitors not only soared in stock prices, but also took away many technicians. Of course, the reason why such a "farce" has occurred is, in the final analysis, because of the word "right". Just as Steve Jobs, the founder, was "kicked out" of Apple, because he underestimated the "value" of the founder, or in other words, he thought that the other party had no "use value", so he had no fear to drive the other party away, in a vain attempt to sit back and enjoy the success.
As everyone knows, the power struggle will only make outsiders see jokes and pick up bargains, and they will not only suffer a lot of vitality, but also may suffer a more unpredictable tragic ending.
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