Openai Saga Part 4: Explanation of the shooting on CEO Sam Altman in the shooting.

Image of feature: Ghibli Style Recreation Studio for the famous image of Mira Moratti (left), Sam German (standing), Greg Brockman, and Elijah Sutskf (right), written by Shattat (Duh)

Remember that the strange weekend in November 2023 when Sam Germany was launched from Openai and then … a kind of specified by Microsoft then … Repeated in Openai in less than a week? I have written three jobs about this drama between the madness of Thanksgiving and I am my God, a lot has happened since then. If you want to catch you in all things Openai and AI relevant, it will take a book. (For someone, I bet if you are reading this story, your relationship with ChatgPT or similar Chatbot has changed greatly since 2023. You are likely to be very distorted to read my fullest article and go to Chatbot mentioned to request a lully summary)

anyway…..

Now, more than a year later, we have finally become some clarity – thanks to the new reports by the Wall Street Journal Kish Hagi, who huped all the main sources of the story for more than a year, including Sam Altman himself, and conducted more than 250 interviews! The screaming of good people in the Hard FORK, which finally gave me some of the closure that I need (ISH) on this topic!

The above tweet: Sam Al -Taman confirms the health of the book

So without more confusion, here is what happened, and what has changed since then, and how everyone regrets everything … but also has become richer?

Part 1: What happened since then (and why does it matter more now)

Since the week of Sam, then irregular in November 2023, here is an inclusive list of what happened in this world.

1. I got the Board of Directors. Brett Taylor, Larry Samarz and Adam de Angelo became the new adults in the room. Everyone promised to work on “governance” (Lol).
2. The investigation confirmed the feelings. Lawmerhale (Wilmerhale – not to boast but many UWC graduates work here. UWC is of course the education system that trained Mira Moratti, you really LOL) has been concluded by Openai that the shooting of the council is due to “loss of confidence”, not a smoking gun about the safety of AI or some of them secretly. A new council approved the results. Basically, each of the old council and the new council had the same facts; However, the latter had more favorable views than Sam than before.
3. The main people left. Elijah Sutskv (co -founder, chief scholar) and Mira Murrati left Openai for their own projects in May and September 2024, respectively. Ilya is now running a new start -up company called Safe Superintelligence Inc. , Which has already achieved a $ 30 billion rating, while Mira founded Machines Machines Lab, which was aimed at a $ 9 billion rating with a collection of $ 1 billion.
4. Altman joined the council. Because of this, of course he did.
5. OpenAi has gone full vapor forward. The tender was shown (where the employees get some shares). Sam, as an executive “coinciding” in some way, restores the evaluation leap from about 30 billion dollars to 90 billion dollars after chaos. Openai Belle of the AI ​​Ball, Sam Altman remains a shaken -out child.
6. Openai tries to get rid of its non -profit assets. The company clicks to reduce the restrictions of the governance imposed by its non -profit father – as you know, it is really difficult to expand the scope of capitalism when it is still a report in appreciation of a non -profit mission. Not like anyone else at that stage was still being deceived in Openai’s profit.
7. Elon Musk wanders from the side lines. According to MUSK (one of Openai Cofounders to update your memory) offered Openai for $ 97.4 billion, which Altman rejected, of course, pointing to how “not for sale”, but this point was clarified. Musk, of course, is very busy dealing with the entire “reshaping” of the US government to close the deal.
8. Artificial intelligence goes at the prevailing quickly. The new Google Chatgpt is the new Google for a large part of the population, the last GPT-4 Turbo (with the capabilities of generating original images directly baked goods, such as the two images that you can see above) the missile fuel was poured only on the adoption curve. Every person from students to startups use them, often daily, such as it is not a big problem.

Part 2: So what has already caused the launch of Sam Taman?

Thanks to the new Keach Hagey book, which came out within a few weeks, we finally got a peek at the full story (the nest) – on the record, from the main players. Contrary to the common belief at the time (AGI is approaching !!!!), it’s really He was About misunderstanding, personalities, and personal dynamics in the rapid movement industry. Through the line though, the money was.

• Elijah and Mira were effective In a mark of poisonous behavior to the plate several times before the shooting. Elijah had major problems with how Sam dealt with safety/superstar research, for years at that stage. Regardless of Ilya, Mira also came to the painting with screenshots of the stagnation that she saw as patterns of toxic behaviors (which seems to have already raised to Sam himself), for example, telling what he believes he wants to hear and then immediately returns to his words behind his appearance; Or bias with Greg Brockman, who was supposed to submit reports to Mira about some of his sabotage tendency to teamwork. Both iLea and Mira were one of the best dogs within Openai, one of whom is the founder/main researcher, chief technology official, so the Board of Directors trust their judgment on SAM. A member of the Board of Directors also faced this style of toxic behavior herself (Helen Toner, who published a research paper with a more convenient vision about the Antarbur from Openai, is its opponent)
• They regretted almost immediately. Mira and Elijah expressed their regret overnight. In telling Mira, I believed that the board of directors would simply obtain an executive coach instead of replacing it. Certainly a bad look if you appreciate organizational harmony. Elijah also did not understand how the next thing happened, which is …
• Employees almost completely with Sam. Why? Not only because it is attractive and strong, but because their payment days will be at risk. At that time, the bid evaluation company was $ 90 billion at a low strike price ($ 30 billion for current employees) on the line. It was not wise that if a poisonous was separated, the show would have disappeared. Therefore, they had to choose between dealing with toxic leadership in exchange for losing millions. Standing between this rock and the difficult place – any person chooses to choose 😉
• The rest is the date. Sam. Elijah and Mira left immediately. And many other people influencing Openai have also left since then.

Part 3: Why do you come clean now?

The book also revealed some of the main details about the big question in everyone’s mind, which is: Why now? Why not then? Such was secret and confusing fire. Even after Wilmerhale and the new council came out with the new results, and after many reports about the subsequent departure of the Key Openai people, no one really knows the reason for his expulsion in the first place. Finally, we have some answers about the reason now.

• Sam does not want to speak For the book, but in the end I did. Why? It is assumed that He should think he may have lost a small battle, but he won the battle. If you remember, in March 2023, a signed message was signed by more than 1,000 influential people within the artificial intelligence community who are calling for a slowdown in artificial intelligence, especially by some of its competitors such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak. It is safe to say that AI has not only slowed, but its development was one of the most technical stories, if not the most important, during the past 2-3 years. The industry as a whole was more than 150 billion billion, and 20 billion alone in the first two months of 2025. Illon Musk, of course, continued to find X-EAI almost the same time with the signing of the message (LOL), and X (formerly on Twitter) gained a year later, in March of 2025, it is supposed to help a company with a new rest with a new comfort for sure. Therefore – it is 1-0 for the acceleration specialists against the first safety of artificial intelligence.

• Sam wants to remember as one of the great At the time of shooting, many people are not known about Sam, except for a specialized community within technology. Now, everyone does. According to Keach Hagey itself, Sam wants the task. He thinks about himself as one of the greatest men in history, along with Edison and Wofheimer’s. In the book, she described a meeting that Sam told her that it was too early to tell the story of Openai. Therefore, it is believed that his participation with Openai or even artificial intelligence as a whole is not all of his story. His ambition exceeds artificial intelligence – he is considering the scope of national identity and economic systems, as he alluded to American property rights An article here.

Part 4: What now?

I feel I finally understand everything. It seems that the same features that make Sam are very effective in collecting money and paying the product are the ones that make it Truly To work with or trust. It is not a coincidence that every leading player in the artificial intelligence community had a kind of chaos with the man, including his sister (not an artificial intelligence player, but I thought it is worth noting that his sister is also being paid).

However, at the end of the day, everyone who participated in Kinda quickly moved from the entire accident. The council regrets how they launched it. Elijah and Mira regretted chaos. The employees felt that they were trapped between values ​​and the financial side. At the same time, only Sam … wins again.

The governance experience failed. The council was supposed to be the weight of a budget for a non -counterattack. But when Push came to Shou, the company sided with the founder. As they always do. R.It was supposed to be a non -profit structure that would protect humanity from bypassing companies. Instead, it was achieved under the same pressures that were built for resistance.

So what now? We went back to where we started – Sam Altman, on top, Openai Chasing Agi, and the Board of Directors is trying to remain appropriate, and the rest of us are watching from the side lines. Only now we know more about what has already happened – and the extent of the entire setting.

Openai was supposed to be organized differently. Instead, I played like each other silicon valley drama. The authority won. The money won. And the man who believes he is building the future not only survives – it has become inevitable.

leap. finished.