Business Wars: The Battle for OpenAI

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within OpenAI that culminated in Sam Altman’s shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means not just for OpenAI, but for the future of artificial intelligence safety overall.

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0:00.0	With the launch of Chat GPT, Sam Altman and Open AI reinvigorated our imaginations and fears of a world containing artificial intelligence.
0:10.0	But while the company looked like a stunning success from the outside, a battle was brewing within on what the future of AI should be.
0:17.2	Almost a year after launching ChatGPT, this battle erupted into a war when one of the company's co-founder staged a coup to oust the company's infamous CEO Sam Altman.
0:28.0	From Wundery Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries of all time.
0:33.2	And in their newest season, you'll hear about how the power struggles and philosophical differences
0:37.8	within open AI culminated in Sam Altman shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means not just for the company,
0:45.4	but for the future and safety of artificial intelligence in the modern world.
0:49.5	You're about to hear a clip from the newest season of Business Wars. Follow Business Wars on the Wundery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:56.0	You can listen early and add free right now by joining Wundry Plus. It's just before noon on
1:15.0	just before noon on Friday, November 17th, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Open AI CEO Sam Altman hustles into his hotel suite on the Las Vegas Strip.
1:22.0	He's 38 years old with a small elf and... Vegas Strip.
1:22.6	He's 38 years old with a small elf and frame and large blue eyes.
1:27.6	Over the past year, he's become one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley.
1:32.8	In November 2022, Open AI released ChatGPT version 3.5, a chatbot that can write code,
1:41.2	answer questions, and even tell jokes, all while seeming uncannily human.
1:47.6	Within a year, this iteration of ChatGPT has gained roughly 100 million users.
1:53.0	It has leapfrogged giant tech companies like Google and Meta
1:57.0	to become the leading artificial intelligence company in the world.
2:01.0	Altman is now the poster child for the artificial intelligence
2:05.5	industry and he's not standing still. He spent the past year jet setting around
2:10.4	the globe to meet with world leaders and the press,
2:13.0	pitching new ideas for how to push AI forward.
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