More from Turmoil at OpenAI: what’s next for the creator of ChatGPT?
OpenAI worried that ChatGPT would be a dud two years ago. Now, the stakes have never been higher.
Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.
Murati is seeking venture capital funds for a new AI startup with its own proprietary models, Reuters reported Friday.
Barret Zoph, an OpenAI researcher who left the same day as Murati may join the venture, according to unnamed sources cited by the outlet.
CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that OpenAI’s complicated corporate structure as a for-profit endeavor under the umbrella of a non-profit is set to change, “likely sometime next year,” reports Fortune.
The reconfiguring, which has been rumored before, would reportedly shift the company “away from being controlled by a non-profit.” OpenAI told the outlet that the “non-profit is core to our mission and will continue to exist.”
Why is OpenAI paying publishers if it already took their work?
John Schulman is leaving to work on alignment at Anthropic, OpenAI’s chief rival. In a reply post on X, CEO Sam Altman thanked Schulman and said he “laid out a significant fraction of what became OpenAI’s initial strategy.”
In his new job, Schulman will work closely with Jan Leike, another senior leader who recently left OpenAI for Anthropic due to concerns that safety had taken a backseat to business priorities.
CNBC spotted the update this week in Microsoft’s risk factors with the SEC. These are managed by lawyers to help shield companies from shareholders lawsuits and generally pretty conservative. Still, the change feels like a sign of how OpenAI and its largest investor are drifting apart.
Relatedly, I couldn’t help but notice the number of times Microsoft execs mentioned OpenAI during their earnings call this week: zero.
CEO Nicholas Thompson discusses the deal: ‘AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens.’
