He is the soul of OpenAI, a genius and a madman. If he leaves, this AI company may lose its soul, lose its temperature, and passion. In the eyes of Feng Li, a doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence at Southwest Jiaotong University, Sam Altman's relationship with OpenAI is symbiotic coexistence and mutual achievement.
No one expected that Altman, the father and founder CEO of "ChatGPT", was recently dismissed by the board of directors and later entered OpenAI as a visitor. On November 20th, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced heavily that Altman would join Microsoft.
Altman is very much like Steve Jobs back then [align]
On November 17th local time, OpenAI, which became famous for ChatGPT, announced that the company's board of directors announced that Sam Altman would resign as CEO and leave the company, with Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati serving as interim CEO with immediate effect. Regarding the reasons for dismissal, the board believes that he was not always honest in his communication with the board, which hindered its ability to fulfill its responsibilities. The board is no longer confident in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
How can I not be honest? How can we hinder the board of directors from fulfilling its responsibilities? For particularly critical information, this announcement was briefly mentioned, and there has been no detailed explanation of the situation made public to this day. Affected by the news, Microsoft's stock price fell in response, closing 1.7% lower on the day at $369.84 and continuing to decline in after hours trading.
In less than 48 hours, Altman posted a photo of himself holding an OpenAI visitor card on the X platform and wrote in the accompanying text, "This is the first and last time I've worn this kind of thing
On November 20th, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman would join Microsoft. In response, Altman stated that the task is still ongoing.
In the eyes of some people, Altman's name represents OpenAI itself. To this day, there are still too many suspense that have not been resolved regarding this personnel change, which is like a "palace battle drama".
At the same time, AI startups such as Cohere and Adept have quickly launched a new round of recruitment and actively approached OpenAI employees, while Google's DeepMind team has received many resumes from OpenAI employees. In addition, AI startup Anthropic, considered OpenAI's biggest competitor, has also released a recruitment list, stating that the company is looking for multiple technical project managers.
In addition, this "palace drama" has also touched countless people, and today's Altman and OpenAI are very similar to those of Steve Jobs and Apple back then. Looking back at 1985, under competitive pressure from IBM computers, Apple's board of directors decided to expel Steve Jobs. Over the next 11 years, Apple's declining product strength made its situation precarious. In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as a king, reigniting this innovative company.
According to public information, OpenAI was founded in 2015, and Tesla founder Musk was also one of its founders. It was this group of "geeks" with investment talent and business acumen who jointly created this globally recognized artificial intelligence research company.
One sentence can generate images, videos, and code. In the field of natural language processing technology, there is already a high degree of intelligence in the technology and industry. It aims to solve the thorny ultimate problem in artificial intelligence, which is OpenAI, "Feng Li said in an interview with a reporter from Financial Investment News.
In fact, since its establishment, the significant increase in model training costs and high labor costs have kept OpenAI in a loss state. According to Fortune data, OpenAI suffered a net loss of $544.5 million in 2022.
To address the sustainability issue of research and development, OpenAI launched a restructuring in 2019, establishing a limited profit subsidiary OpenAI LP, which is controlled by a non-profit parent company. At the same time, it is stipulated that OpenAI LP shareholders can obtain a maximum profit limit, and any returns exceeding the limit will be returned to OpenAI to support research. It was in this round of changes that Microsoft accepted this unique model and invested $1 billion to become a 49% shareholder in OpenAI LP.
This year, OpenAI is once again deeply bundled with Microsoft. The cooperation agreement shows that its ChatGPT will integrate with Microsoft's entire product line and establish an innovative equity and profit distribution model to solve multiple problems of R&D resource support, industrial application channels, human resources support, and sales support.
So far, in the past 8 years, OpenAI has transformed from a non-profit research institution to an AI giant with a market valuation of over 30 billion US dollars. It has not only released numerous high-impact technological achievements such as GPT3, ChatGPT, GP4, etc., becoming a leading AI research and development institution in the industry, but also successfully achieved technology landing and self growth.
In addition, since 2021, OpenAI Venture Capital has invested in over 16 companies, covering areas such as audio and video editing application development, AI note taking application development, and chip development. These investment projects will leverage OpenAI's products to jointly strengthen OpenAI's dominant position in the field of generative AI.
OpenAI has a clear leading advantage in the field of AI R&D innovation, gathering a large number of top R&D innovation talents, "said Shen Meng, director of Xiangsong Capital.
OpenAI, which is moving towards commercialization, is no longer the "ideal type" of Altman, Musk, and others.
As early as 2019, Musk publicly stated, "OpenAI was created as a non-profit company, but now it has become a profit maximizing company effectively controlled by Microsoft
In the end, Musk said goodbye to OpenAI, and now Altman has also left the place where his dream began. The widely accepted view among the outside world regarding the causes of the storm is that it is a "factional struggle" between profit and non-profit groups. The former represents the "money" landscape of OpenAI, while the latter represents the original intention of OpenAI.
In Feng Li's view, in the field of artificial intelligence, there are irreconcilable differences in the short term on core issues such as capital, technology, profitability, ethics, morality, and security.
Safety first or business first? The confusion of OpenAI may be the choice challenge facing the entire AI industry.
Looking globally, there will be more AI companies iteratively upgrading their technology and applications towards the needs of their users, and more industry models will emerge. Overall, the decline in model parameters and the trend towards segmented industries is the trend. "Feng Li told Financial Investment News reporters about his vision of the future of artificial intelligence.
Feng Li further stated that the competition in artificial intelligence is like a big wave washing sand, and after the disappearance of dreams and bubbles, there is no step that needs to be taken. Looking at the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence in China, it will shift from chaos to order, thus forging outstanding core capabilities.
On November 17th local time, OpenAI, which became famous for ChatGPT, announced that the company's board of directors announced that Sam Altman would resign as CEO and leave the company, with Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati serving as interim CEO with immediate effect. Regarding the reasons for dismissal, the board believes that he was not always honest in his communication with the board, which hindered its ability to fulfill its responsibilities. The board is no longer confident in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
How can I not be honest? How can we hinder the board of directors from fulfilling its responsibilities? For particularly critical information, this announcement was briefly mentioned, and there has been no detailed explanation of the situation made public to this day. Affected by the news, Microsoft's stock price fell in response, closing 1.7% lower on the day at $369.84 and continuing to decline in after hours trading.
In less than 48 hours, Altman posted a photo of himself holding an OpenAI visitor card on the X platform and wrote in the accompanying text, "This is the first and last time I've worn this kind of thing
On November 20th, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman would join Microsoft. In response, Altman stated that the task is still ongoing.
In the eyes of some people, Altman's name represents OpenAI itself. To this day, there are still too many suspense that have not been resolved regarding this personnel change, which is like a "palace battle drama".
At the same time, AI startups such as Cohere and Adept have quickly launched a new round of recruitment and actively approached OpenAI employees, while Google's DeepMind team has received many resumes from OpenAI employees. In addition, AI startup Anthropic, considered OpenAI's biggest competitor, has also released a recruitment list, stating that the company is looking for multiple technical project managers.
In addition, this "palace drama" has also touched countless people, and today's Altman and OpenAI are very similar to those of Steve Jobs and Apple back then. Looking back at 1985, under competitive pressure from IBM computers, Apple's board of directors decided to expel Steve Jobs. Over the next 11 years, Apple's declining product strength made its situation precarious. In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as a king, reigniting this innovative company.
OpenAI is once again deeply bundled with Microsoft
According to public information, OpenAI was founded in 2015, and Tesla founder Musk was also one of its founders. It was this group of "geeks" with investment talent and business acumen who jointly created this globally recognized artificial intelligence research company.
One sentence can generate images, videos, and code. In the field of natural language processing technology, there is already a high degree of intelligence in the technology and industry. It aims to solve the thorny ultimate problem in artificial intelligence, which is OpenAI, "Feng Li said in an interview with a reporter from Financial Investment News.
In fact, since its establishment, the significant increase in model training costs and high labor costs have kept OpenAI in a loss state. According to Fortune data, OpenAI suffered a net loss of $544.5 million in 2022.
To address the sustainability issue of research and development, OpenAI launched a restructuring in 2019, establishing a limited profit subsidiary OpenAI LP, which is controlled by a non-profit parent company. At the same time, it is stipulated that OpenAI LP shareholders can obtain a maximum profit limit, and any returns exceeding the limit will be returned to OpenAI to support research. It was in this round of changes that Microsoft accepted this unique model and invested $1 billion to become a 49% shareholder in OpenAI LP.
This year, OpenAI is once again deeply bundled with Microsoft. The cooperation agreement shows that its ChatGPT will integrate with Microsoft's entire product line and establish an innovative equity and profit distribution model to solve multiple problems of R&D resource support, industrial application channels, human resources support, and sales support.
So far, in the past 8 years, OpenAI has transformed from a non-profit research institution to an AI giant with a market valuation of over 30 billion US dollars. It has not only released numerous high-impact technological achievements such as GPT3, ChatGPT, GP4, etc., becoming a leading AI research and development institution in the industry, but also successfully achieved technology landing and self growth.
In addition, since 2021, OpenAI Venture Capital has invested in over 16 companies, covering areas such as audio and video editing application development, AI note taking application development, and chip development. These investment projects will leverage OpenAI's products to jointly strengthen OpenAI's dominant position in the field of generative AI.
OpenAI has a clear leading advantage in the field of AI R&D innovation, gathering a large number of top R&D innovation talents, "said Shen Meng, director of Xiangsong Capital.
Security priority or business priority in the AI field
OpenAI, which is moving towards commercialization, is no longer the "ideal type" of Altman, Musk, and others.
As early as 2019, Musk publicly stated, "OpenAI was created as a non-profit company, but now it has become a profit maximizing company effectively controlled by Microsoft
In the end, Musk said goodbye to OpenAI, and now Altman has also left the place where his dream began. The widely accepted view among the outside world regarding the causes of the storm is that it is a "factional struggle" between profit and non-profit groups. The former represents the "money" landscape of OpenAI, while the latter represents the original intention of OpenAI.
In Feng Li's view, in the field of artificial intelligence, there are irreconcilable differences in the short term on core issues such as capital, technology, profitability, ethics, morality, and security.
Safety first or business first? The confusion of OpenAI may be the choice challenge facing the entire AI industry.
Looking globally, there will be more AI companies iteratively upgrading their technology and applications towards the needs of their users, and more industry models will emerge. Overall, the decline in model parameters and the trend towards segmented industries is the trend. "Feng Li told Financial Investment News reporters about his vision of the future of artificial intelligence.
Feng Li further stated that the competition in artificial intelligence is like a big wave washing sand, and after the disappearance of dreams and bubbles, there is no step that needs to be taken. Looking at the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence in China, it will shift from chaos to order, thus forging outstanding core capabilities.
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