Reid Hoffman, who held the role of director at OpenAI until March, stated that he has conversed with Sam Altman but not with OpenAI's board members since their swift removal of the CEO last month. According to Hoffman, the motivation for the move is still unknown. Hoffman, who still serves as director at Microsoft, a backer of OpenAI, remarked that the association between the two companies will be studied in business courses.
Approximately three weeks after OpenAI's board abruptly dismissed CEO Sam Altman without an explanation, Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and former director, expressed confusion at the incident onstage at Wired's LiveWired conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. "After reading the blog post, I was asking myself 'What is going on here?'" Hoffman said. "Up until now, we still do not have a full understanding (of the matter)." Following a vigorous pushback from investors and the possible departure of many of the company's employees, Altman was restored as the head. Meanwhile, the board has gone through changes, including some directors leaving, yet no clear reasons have been revealed for the initial tumult. Reports have claimed that Altman wanted to finance a new AI chip startup, Sutskever believed Altman wasn't concentrated enough on the possible hazards of the company's technology, and the board was informed of an employee's technical success. Furthermore, there was disagreement between Altman and one of the directors who subsequently quit. Nevertheless, one OpenAI executive told employees that Altman had not been fired due to "malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices."This situation has left a feeling of uncertainty around OpenAI, which still operates the renowned ChatGPT chatbot and offers services to big organizations such as AT&T and Mercedes-Benz through a wide association with Microsoft. Rivals have taken advantage of this period by, for example, Amazon's cloud business head Adam Selipsky using it to alert people against relying on a single provider of AI models at a conference in Las Vegas attended by 50,000 people.Hoffman, one of OpenAI's first donors, left the board in March and said he has not spoken with any of the board members, but he did correspond with Altman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proposed hiring Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and their colleagues in a new advanced AI research group. However, Altman was swiftly reinstated in OpenAI. Hoffman commented, "I believe we are in a notably better position with Sam as the CEO again. He is extremely capable of it." The partaking of OpenAI and Microsoft, who provides OpenAI with cloud infrastructure and advertises OpenAI services on Windows and Office applications, will be studied in business classes. Hoffman commented on Nadella's approach by saying, "Satya is a reputable and sincere leader. He would have hired everybody from OpenAI and continued with all that if that had been the only pathway available."
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