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> and destroys OpenAI

You mean destroy the rubble that's currently left in the offices of the company formerly known as OpenAI? If 500-750 key employees have departed to a competitor, what's left to protect?

Yeah, it would 80% be a "fuck you" move, but the other 20% would represent a pivot to an "open source" model like the name once implied



Have 500-750 key employees departed? Or even threatened to depart? OpenAI has (well, had) 770 employees, you think Microsoft will lure away 70-97% of them?


It's literally the top article on the front page right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38347868

See also https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726598360277356775 which was merged into that discussion above


Signing a petition is not the same as quitting, but that is something (and I hadn't seen it).


> the other 20% would represent a pivot to an "open source" model like the name once implied

Or they would be triggering a billion-dollar lawsuit that would surely bankrupt the company.


On what grounds exactly? They are still the owners


I don't have any insider knowledge that the linked post is true, but it seems plausible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349969

Even if there isn't anything explicit, there may be an implicit promise that a strategic partner won't share all the company secrets with the partner's competitors.


Not seeing they have anything to lose at this point.




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