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Also in the spirit of clarifications this morning...
under better light, Zilis’ top is green and not gray.
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Zilis says she had concerns about Altman that she raised with the board of OpenAI
First, she says that the broad release of ChatGPT wasn’t discussed with the non-profit OpenAI board. This was discussed in a board meeting. Second, the deal with Helion raised eyebrows because Altman and Brockman both had investments and the tech was still speculative. She also felt that “it was probably the only time where I remember feeling in the pit of my stomach -- just being like, I voiced my concerns.”
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Musk’s team has called Shivon Zilis.
She is wearing a black cardigan and black pants with a gray shirt. She is saying that after graduating from Yale, she took a job at IBM, then joined Bloomberg Ventures, and launched Bloomberg Beta, where she focused on AI investments. “I was 13 years old and I read a book called The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil,” and that opened a new world for her. “I read it 10–15 times.”
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Murati says problems with Altman persisted after he returned to the company.
Sam Altman wasn’t making decisions quickly enough and dragging things out, or not making decisions on controversial things at all, Murati says. He told people what they wanted to hear. “Those are the big themes.”
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“OpenAI was at catastrophic risk of falling apart” when Altman was fired, Murati says.
Satya Nadella met with the OpenAI board. And Murati told Microsoft’s Kevin Scott about Ilya Sutskever signing a petition to reinstate Altman. Murati also wanted Altman back. “The board had not followed a process that could be trusted and it wasn’t transparent with regard to firing Sam.”
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We are seeing video testimony from Mira Murati’s deposition.
It is specifically about how OpenAI and Microsoft worked together. She says that when GPT models were developed, there was no sense they would be commercializable. She also says that Altman undermined her in her ability to do her job, and pitted executives at OpenAI against each other.
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We are clearing up “a few inaccuracies from yesterday.”
Closing statements are likely next Thursday, not early next week. Also, Musk’s lawyer Steven Molo suggested that OpenAI came up with “small adjunct” as a phrase while cross-examining Brockman. In fact, Musk used that phrase.
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We are taking care of some matters before the jury comes in.
YGR has sternly warned the lawyers about how much time they have left. We expect closing arguments a week from tomorrow.
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The jurors look as bored as I feel.
Wu is still identifying documents. Two jurors have some real thousand-yard stares going on.
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Brockman steps down. We are looking at the video deposition of Robert Wu.
We are now looking at assorted legal documents with him. We have determined the board has approved the agreement of 2018, which is the initial formation of the for-profit OpenAI LP. OpenAI Inc. contributed assets and in result got the limited partner interest and “residual interest.” This seems to be mostly about reading stuff into the record.