Inside the chaos at OpenAI

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4/674764/?utm_source=apple_news

I know everyone’s talking about Nadella’s impressive grab of Altman and his guys and the inevitable fall of OpenAI. But has anyone given thought to the possible for all AGI for public good? How autonomous is this R&D group really now that Altman is just another big tech employee. I worry for the future of GPTs and its open source nature. Gork is yet to prove itself to GPT-4. But Bing has never had a better chance to surpass Google than this. Interesting to see how Google react.(js) (lol)

A week before Sam Altman ouster, OpenAI chief scientist made a huge breakthrough which can pave path towards super intelligence. They developed model named Q* ( Q star) which will - overcome data bottleneck - have likely solved planning/agentic behavior for small models -able to solve certain mathematical problems, https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

-> OpenAI fires Altman & Brockman -> Microsoft & OpenAI investors try to get both back -> OpenAI hires Emmett Shear/Microsoft hires Altman & Brockman -> 500/700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign

- ChatGPT now boasts over 200 million weekly active users, twice the number from a year ago - 92% of Fortune 500 companies are utilizing OpenAI's products - Usage of OpenAI's automated API has doubled since GPT-4o mini's July release - CEO Sam Altman highlights ChatGPT's impact in healthcare and education - Competition intensifies as Microsoft, Google, and Meta vie for chatbot market share Source: [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/08/29/openai-chatgpt-200-million-weekly-active-users)

We are so back

-> Sam Altman back to OpenAI! https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721

Get your popcorns🍿 https://x.com/karaswisher/status/1726599700961521762?s=48&t=TQlRCcd7C8YutZv122Uhfw