The shakeup at OpenAI, and what it means for Microsoft
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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Summary
The surprise removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.
This week, we recap the latest developments in this fast-moving story, and then talk with Matt McIlwain of Madrona Venture Group about the broader implications of Altman's ouster for Microsoft, Amazon, and the tech industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Open AI CEO Sam Altman was as bullish as ever about artificial intelligence and the |
| 0:06.6 | chat geepte maker's latest advances when he spoke Thursday at the Apeck Summit in |
| 0:11.9 | San Francisco. I think this will be the most |
| 0:14.4 | most transformative and beneficial technology |
| 0:16.9 | humanity has yet invented and on a personal note |
| 0:20.3 | like four times now in the history of open eye the most recent time was just |
| 0:25.6 | in the last couple of weeks I've gotten to be in the room when we sort of |
| 0:29.5 | like push the front this sort of the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery |
| 0:34.8 | forward and getting to do that is like the professional honor of a lifetime so that's |
| 0:39.7 | just it's so fun to get to work on that. One day later, Altman was out. |
| 0:44.3 | Major breaking news related to Open AI. |
| 0:46.8 | Steve Kovac joins us now. |
| 0:48.4 | This is a stunner in some respect, Steve. |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, Sam Altman is out as CEO of Open AI. |
| 0:54.3 | We just got this announcement, Scott. |
| 0:56.1 | The surprise removal of the Open AI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry, raising |
| 1:01.7 | questions about the company's role in the AI revolution, |
| 1:05.0 | the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, |
| 1:11.2 | open AI's complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with |
| 1:15.7 | Microsoft. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 1:20.0 | Coming up, we'll recap the latest developments in this fast moving story, and then talk with |
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