{"id":59605,"date":"2023-11-20T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=a2a6cea7d982332a41bf05d6c3330b95"},"modified":"2023-11-20T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:09:17","slug":"hundreds-of-openai-employees-threaten-to-resign-and-join-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59605","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/20\/23968988\/openai-employees-resignation-letter-microsoft-sam-altman\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Definitely a real, mature industry and not some investors flailing in a hype cycle. \nMicrosoft is making out on the whole situation though.<\/div><figure>\n      <img alt=\"Photo of Satya Nadella standing in front of a sign that reads Microsoft loves OpenAI\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/yo1dWZkIiFH62G5ctFMoNJNXBYg=\/107x0:1226x746\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/72884153\/openai.0.jpeg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <figcaption><em>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella onstage at Ignite 2023 in November.<\/em> | Image: Microsoft<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n\n  <p>Most of the staff at OpenAI have threatened to resign from the company and join Microsoft, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/20\/23968829\/microsoft-hires-sam-altman-greg-brockman-employees-openai\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hired ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> and former OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new &ldquo;advanced AI research team.&rdquo; In a letter to OpenAI&rsquo;s board that was reported on this morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">by <em>Wired<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karaswisher\/status\/1726599700961521762\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">journalist Kara Swisher<\/a>, more than 500 current OpenAI staffers say that &ldquo;Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The letter says the OpenAI employees will leave if the board does not reinstate Altman and Brockman and then resign. But seeing as the board has already made its choice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/20\/23967515\/sam-altman-openai-board-fired-new-ceo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deciding to remain in place<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/20\/23968848\/openai-new-ceo-emmett-shear-twitch-co-founder-hiring\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">naming a new CEO<\/a>, while Altman and Brockman head...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/20\/23968988\/openai-employees-resignation-letter-microsoft-sam-altman\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella onstage at Ignite 2023 in November. | Image: Mic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}