<div dir="ltr">Sam is back in the for-profit and the non-profit board is gone. <br>inversion of control: the tail wagging the dog in corporate governance<br><br><img src="cid:ii_lp9zaacv0" alt="image.png" width="472" height="324"><br><a href="https://openai.com/our-structure">https://openai.com/our-structure</a><br><br>the flow of governance control, like water in New Mexico, goes toward money<br><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:stephen.guerin@simtable.com" target="_blank">stephen.guerin@simtable.com</a> <br><div><a href="mailto:stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">stephenguerin@fas.harvard.edu</a><br><a href="https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home" target="_blank">Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab</a><br><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">mobile: (505)577-5828</span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 12:42 AM Pieter Steenekamp <<a href="mailto:pieters@randcontrols.co.za" target="_blank">pieters@randcontrols.co.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hot off the press; Sam is going back to OpenAI.<div dir="auto">A new board has been appointed.</div><div dir="auto">It seems like Sam got what he wanted.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 7:22 am Pieter Steenekamp, <<a href="mailto:pieters@randcontrols.co.za" target="_blank">pieters@randcontrols.co.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Background<div dir="auto">OpenAI is actually two companies. The original not for profit parent company and the for profit subsidiary.</div><div dir="auto">The parent, not for profit, appoints the board of the for profit subsidiary and does not have a fudiciary obligation towards the financial well-being of the company, only towards humanity; to ensure that AI is developed for the good of humanity.</div><div dir="auto">On Friday the board fired the CEO, Sam Altman, without giving reasons.</div><div dir="auto">Since then Sam got an offer from Microsoft to join them and start a new AI Microsoft subsidiary. Sam is reluctant to take it, he seems to think that will kill OpenAi.</div><div dir="auto">95 percent of OpenAI employees signed a letter that if Sam goes to Microsoft they will join him. Microsoft said they will accomdate them.</div><div dir="auto">Now we are waiting - will OpenAI take Sam back? Will Sam and 95 percent of OpenAI's employees join MS?</div><div dir="auto">Or is there something else going to happen?</div><div dir="auto">A Netflix movie couldn't have more drama and suspens.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, 2:14 am Marcus Daniels, <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:00 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Open AI<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Rumors I have read:<br>
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1) Sam Altman was looking for money from sovereign wealth fund from Saudi Arabia to fund an NVIDIA competitor. And this was one example of him working side gigs not related to the Open AI mission.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">2) That the energy demands of LLMs on Azure are just too expensive, and the money lost per query is becoming too expensive, even for Microsoft’s hosting of OpenAI.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">3) That there was a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence and Sam Altman wouldn’t press the brakes.
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Pietro Terna <<a href="mailto:pietro.terna@unito.it" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">pietro.terna@unito.it</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Open AI</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Adobe Garamond Pro",serif"> Dear All,<br>
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can you explain to an old Italian friend the Open AI soap opera or drama?<br>
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Best, Pietro<br>
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