Was #SamAltman leading an internal revolt at OpenAI? Were there bigger players in the game in this entire saga? Are things as simple as we are seeing in the media? I think there is more to the #OpenAI and #SamAltman saga than what we are seeing in the media. You do not fire a CEO of such a fast growing company overnight, especially one that took the company from nowhere to nearly $80B in valuation just in a few years! I mean the board that fired #SamAltman isn't a group of amateurs, most of them have a hand in building successful companies and going all the way. Did Microsoft orchestrate a coup to indirectly take over OpenAI? If you look at how all of the events unfolded, it has clear designs of a planned coup basically. I mean, are people like @adamdangelo so naive that they would take a move that would kill such a successful company right after they have one of the most successful events for tech company, their Dev-day and all other related developments? I do not think so, I think there is a bigger story here that we do not know at this stage. To understand the most logical reasoning, let's understand the recent outcome of all this: - @sama has joined Microsoft and will be leading a team of AI researchers there, along with @gdb - Obviously, most of other top minds that make OpenAI have quit or are in the process. They would most probably land in the same Microsoft team headed by @sama - So, @Microsoft / @satyanadella get the entire #OpenAI company, including pretty much the source code without paying for it! If you look at some of the recent events: Nov. 9th: Microsoft Briefly Restricted Employee Access To OpenAI's ChatGPT Nov 18th: Something so big happened during these 9 days or so that the OpenAI board fired one of the most successful CEOs of recent past so harshly! Nov 20th: Sam Altman, Greg and probably other top researchers join Microsoft to lead a separate team there. You can as well call it OpenAI 2.0 at this point! If it doesn't look like it was all pre-planned already, the below would make it clear: - OpenAI's entire board was reported to have to agreed to pave the way for @sama to return as the CEO. - Most of the #OpenAI staff publicly revolted against the firing, so the board knew they had to bring @sama back at all costs. So, despite the news hinting at the @sama pretty much winning that fight, @sama still didn't re-join @OpenAI and chose to join @Microsoft? Here is what I think actually happened: - Some internal events must have unfolded, Microsoft wanting to do one thing and OpenAI board not agreeing to it. - Microsoft probably had #SamAltman on their side agreeing with each other (more on this), so they set up a plan in motion to break #OpenAI and start the #OpenAI 2.0 with Microsoft. - The board got wind of it, and fired @sama in a rush to save the company. You know the rest. Why @sama would do it if he actually did it? - We all know that #SamAltman has been working hard on raising funds for OpenAI, because #AGI would mean tons of data needs. - While @sama must have some successes here and there, it would need huge investments to actually fulfill all those computing capabilities. Guess one organization which has the funds to fund an operation like that as well as existing infrastructure in place for the same. If you guessed Microsoft with their Azure, you guessed it right! Now, Microsoft is no saint, when #SamAltman or #OpenAI would ask for something, they would need to give something in return. I guess, that "something" was what #SamAltman would have agreed to it, but the rest of the #OpenAI board didn't! @sama probably made a decision in collusion with Microsoft as something he probably thinks is the necessary step for proper future of something he has been working on building!