BREAKING: OpenAI's Going Closed (yes really)

Summary

The video discusses major changes at OpenAI, focusing on its shift from a nonprofit to a for-profit structure, which could have significant implications for AI safety and accessibility. The script covers OpenAI’s original mission to ensure AI benefits all, the introduction of profit-driven goals, and leadership departures. It highlights tensions between nonprofit control and investor-driven interests, raising concerns that OpenAI may prioritize profits over safety. The restructuring includes Sam Altman now having equity, sparking concerns from the AI safety community about the company's future direction.

Takeaways

• 🤔 OpenAI has historically not open-sourced its models, despite providing significant research documentation.
• 😲 OpenAI's recent shift from nonprofit to a for-profit benefit corporation marks a dramatic change in its structure.
• 💼 Investors will now have fewer restrictions on profits, making OpenAI a more traditional investment opportunity.
• 🔄 The nonprofit entity will remain, but it will only hold a minority stake in the new for-profit structure.
• 🚨 The change raises concerns about how OpenAI will manage AI risks in a more profit-driven environment.
• 👨‍💼 Sam Altman now has equity in OpenAI, a significant shift since he previously didn't own any part of the company.
• 📉 The disbanding of the Super Alignment team, which focused on AI safety, has raised fears about OpenAI's commitment to its original safety goals.
• 🤑 OpenAI's for-profit shift could lead to increased focus on profits over safety, sparking concerns about the future of AI governance.
• 👋 Several leadership changes have occurred, including the departure of CTO Mira Murati and other key leaders.
• 📊 OpenAI's valuation has skyrocketed, with investors like Microsoft and others keenly watching this transition into a more traditional corporate structure.

Q & A

What changes has OpenAI made to its business structure recently?

OpenAI is restructuring from a nonprofit to a for-profit benefit corporation, which will no longer be controlled by its nonprofit board. This change is aimed at attracting more traditional investors and enabling higher returns.

Why was OpenAI originally established as a nonprofit organization?

OpenAI was originally founded to ensure AI development was safe and beneficial to all of humanity, rather than being controlled by a few large corporations with potentially unsafe practices.

What is the significance of Sam Altman now owning equity in OpenAI?

Previously, Sam Altman did not own any equity in OpenAI to maintain impartiality. With the restructuring, he now owns a significant stake, which could be worth up to $150 billion, aligning his financial incentives more closely with the company's profitability.

How did OpenAI’s relationship with investors change due to the restructuring?

Investors can now invest in OpenAI in a more traditional way without caps on returns. Previously, OpenAI had a hard cap on investment returns, limiting them to a maximum of 10x the initial investment.

What concerns have been raised about OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model?

The shift to a for-profit model could lead to reduced emphasis on AI safety and accessibility, as profit incentives might overshadow the original mission of developing safe and beneficial AI for everyone.

What impact did the restructuring have on OpenAI's leadership team?

Several key figures, including CTO Mira Murati, announced their departure. This suggests significant internal changes and a shift in leadership as OpenAI transitions into a new business structure.

How did the boardroom drama in 2022 affect OpenAI's structure?

In 2022, the nonprofit board ousted Sam Altman due to a loss of trust and communication issues, but he was reinstated within five days due to overwhelming support from employees and investors. This incident highlighted the tension between the nonprofit board's goals and the company's direction.

What role did Microsoft play in OpenAI's recent changes?

Microsoft, a significant investor in OpenAI, now has a seat on the board. Their involvement has raised concerns about the influence of large corporations on the direction of AI development at OpenAI.

What happened to OpenAI’s super alignment team?

The super alignment team, which focused on keeping AI development aligned with human values and safety, was disbanded, raising concerns about OpenAI's commitment to long-term AI safety.

How does the new for-profit structure of OpenAI compare to other AI companies?

The new structure resembles that of its rivals, such as Anthropic and Elon Musk's X.AI, which are also for-profit benefit corporations that aim to balance profitability with social responsibility and sustainability.

Outlines

00:00

🔍 OpenAI Shifts Away from Nonprofit Roots

The video opens by addressing a long-standing critique: despite its name, OpenAI is not truly open in terms of its models being closed-source. The company has maintained a nonprofit status, focused on benefiting humanity, but that structure has recently changed. This shift marks the end of an era for OpenAI, as it transitions towards a for-profit benefit corporation. The narrator expresses shock at the scale of the changes, especially given the past controversies around OpenAI. The transition is surprising, with the CTO leaving and Sam Altman set to earn more, reflecting a significant shift in OpenAI's core structure and goals.

05:03

📈 OpenAI's New Corporate Structure

OpenAI is restructuring into a for-profit benefit corporation to attract more traditional investors. Previously, OpenAI capped returns for investors, limiting potential profits. Now, with this cap removed, OpenAI becomes more appealing to investors, allowing greater financial gains. Despite this shift, the original nonprofit will remain, but with a minority stake in the new structure. Concerns arise about how this change might affect AI safety governance, one of OpenAI's founding principles. The restructuring may allow investors to focus more on profit than safety, raising questions about the company’s future direction.

10:05

⚖️ Tensions Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Structures

The video describes the tension between OpenAI's nonprofit board and its for-profit division. Initially, the nonprofit controlled decisions, but the for-profit section has grown more dominant, creating friction. This shift flips the original governance structure, with the corporation now leading while the board takes a backseat. The restructuring has sparked leadership changes, including the CTO's departure, further signaling the company's transformation into a profit-driven entity. This change mirrors moves by other AI companies, like Anthropic, as OpenAI seeks to maintain its competitive edge in the booming AI market.

15:05

🏢 Leadership Changes Amid OpenAI's Growth

OpenAI's leadership is undergoing major changes as it restructures. The company's longtime CTO, Mira Murati, and other key executives have left, raising questions about OpenAI’s future direction. These departures coincide with OpenAI's transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit model. The changes follow the company’s explosive growth, driven by ChatGPT's success, which attracted significant investor interest. OpenAI is shifting away from its original mission of making AI safe and accessible to all, prioritizing a more traditional business model that appeals to investors and aligns with its rapid expansion.

🚨 AI Safety and the Dismantling of Core Goals

The narrator highlights that OpenAI was founded to prevent AI from being monopolized by a few companies or developed unsafely. However, the company’s new for-profit direction risks undermining these original goals. OpenAI no longer offers open models, forcing users to rely on its closed infrastructure. Additionally, safety concerns are mounting as OpenAI disbands its super alignment team, which was dedicated to ensuring AI safety. With the nonprofit’s control reduced, OpenAI now resembles a typical startup focused on maximizing profits, sparking concerns among AI safety advocates.

⚠️ Safety Concerns as OpenAI's Mission Evolves

In the final part of the script, the narrator addresses concerns over OpenAI's mission. The company, which once aimed to make AI both safe and accessible, is now largely profit-driven. The nonprofit board, once a safeguard, has been sidelined, and Microsoft, one of the very companies OpenAI was wary of, now holds significant influence. The disbanding of the super alignment team raises additional fears about AI safety. The narrator acknowledges these concerns but remains cautiously optimistic, awaiting further developments as OpenAI continues to evolve in its new for-profit structure.

Keywords

💡OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research organization that has been at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation. Originally founded as a nonprofit aimed at advancing safe and widely accessible AI, the video explains how OpenAI is shifting its structure from nonprofit to for-profit, which may have significant implications for its mission and control.

💡Nonprofit to For-profit Transition

This refers to OpenAI's shift from being a nonprofit organization to becoming a for-profit entity. The video highlights how this change, which includes removing the nonprofit board’s control, may impact the company's priorities and safety considerations, leading to concerns over whether the original mission of OpenAI will be preserved.

💡Sam Altman

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, and central to the video’s discussion about leadership and the company's recent structural changes. Initially, Altman had no equity in OpenAI, but the video describes how the recent transition gives him a potentially massive stake in the company, which could be worth billions after restructuring.

💡AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to a type of AI that can understand, learn, and apply intelligence across a wide range of tasks at a level equal to or exceeding human intelligence. OpenAI’s mission was to develop safe AGI that would be beneficial for all, but the video raises concerns about whether profit-driven motives might undermine safety and accessibility.

💡Investor Caps

Investor caps were a unique feature of OpenAI's original for-profit subsidiary, where profits for investors were limited to a 10x return. The video describes how OpenAI is now removing these caps, making it more attractive to traditional investors but also signaling a move toward a more typical for-profit structure, which may prioritize profits over mission.

💡AI Safety

AI safety refers to the measures taken to ensure that AI technology is developed responsibly, avoiding potential harm to society. OpenAI's original mission was deeply rooted in ensuring AI safety. The video expresses concerns that with the disbanding of OpenAI's super-alignment team and leadership changes, safety might take a backseat to profit motives.

💡Super-alignment Team

The Super-alignment Team was a group within OpenAI dedicated to aligning AI development with human values and ensuring that AI remains safe. The video mentions that this team has been disbanded, sparking concerns about whether OpenAI still prioritizes long-term safety in its development of AI technology.

💡Microsoft

Microsoft is one of the major investors in OpenAI and holds significant influence over the company. The video points out that Microsoft now has a seat on OpenAI's board, which raises concerns about how much control large corporations will have over the development and use of OpenAI's technology, potentially going against the original mission.

💡Nonprofit Board

The nonprofit board initially controlled OpenAI to ensure the organization adhered to its mission of safe and equitable AI development. The video discusses how the board’s influence has diminished with the restructuring, leading to worries that the for-profit company's goals may now outweigh the original nonprofit's mission.

💡AI Accessibility

AI accessibility refers to making AI tools and models available to the broader public, not just powerful companies. OpenAI was founded on the belief that AI should be accessible to everyone, but the video highlights how the company's current trajectory—such as not open-sourcing models—may restrict AI use to a small group of large corporations, counter to its founding vision.

Highlights

OpenAI is transitioning from a nonprofit organization to a for-profit benefit corporation.

Historically, OpenAI was a nonprofit with a mission to ensure AI development benefitted humanity.

OpenAI's new structure is intended to attract more investors by removing the profit cap that previously limited returns.

The nonprofit branch will still exist, but will own a minority stake in the new for-profit corporation.

The restructuring has implications for AI safety governance, a key concern that led to the formation of OpenAI.

Sam Altman, previously without equity in OpenAI, will now own a significant stake potentially worth up to $150 billion.

This shift in OpenAI's structure echoes moves by its competitors, like Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI, which are also for-profit entities.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's CTO, has announced her departure amid the restructuring.

OpenAI's superalignment team, focused on ensuring AI safety, has been disbanded, raising concerns about future governance of AI risks.

Microsoft, a significant investor, now holds a seat on the OpenAI board, increasing concerns about corporate influence over AI development.

OpenAI's nonprofit board originally controlled decisions to ensure AI safety, but this is no longer the case after the restructuring.

The board's decision to fire Sam Altman in late 2023 highlighted tensions between profit motives and AI safety concerns.

Despite concerns about safety and accessibility, OpenAI has continued to make advances in AI development and open-source research.

Sam Altman tweeted his gratitude towards Mira and other departing leaders, noting leadership changes as natural in fast-growing companies.

OpenAI is experiencing significant internal leadership shifts, with new leaders like Mark, Josh, and Matt Knight taking on key roles in the restructured company.

Transcripts

we've been making memes about how open

AI is not really open for a long time

now and it's true open AI is one of the

major providers of models that doesn't

open source their models so you can't

run them yourself they've open sourced a

lot of info about how the models work

they've been great about documenting

their research but open AI itself has

been providing closed Source software

through their services for quite a while

that all said they still were a

nonprofit the actual company structure

was that with a board that was

specifically dedicated to bettering

Humanity as a nonprofit charitable org

that just changed and I really didn't

think it would happen it's an

unbelievable shift especially after all

the drama last year that Prime and I

covered with like 20 videos it's come to

an end and here's the results I didn't

think this was actually going to happen

holy I saw earlier today that the

CTO Mira was leaving but I didn't

realize it was this big oh God I think

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Theo sent you chat gbt maker open AI is

working on a plan to restructure its

Core Business into a for-profit benefit

corporation that will no longer be

controlled by its nonprofit board people

familiar with the matter told Reuters in

a move that'll make the company more

attractive to investors the way that

open AI handles investors right now is

interesting most companies investors buy

a percentage with the hopes of being

able to sell that percentage at some

point in the future open a had an

interesting rule where profits on

investment were capped they had a hard

cap I think it was 10x so once if you

invested a million dollars and you could

sell it for 10 million you couldn't make

more than 10 million on that sale so

this is a huge change because now

investors can invest in a much more

traditional way without these weird caps

and whatnot on the Investments huge

shift very strange and unex expected the

open AI nonprofit will continue to exist

and own a minority stake in the

for-profit company the move could also

have implications for how the company

manages AI risks in a new governance

structure that's the main concern a big

part of why open AI was formed in the

first place was to make sure that AI

development and advancement wasn't a

thing that like two big companies made a

bunch of money off of and didn't care to

bother with the safety side it was a

combination of AI should benefit all and

the best AI should be safe and those two

things were huge core parts of why open

AI was formed in the first place and

then they got so far ahead of everyone

else so early that it was hard for them

to not make money and now they're in the

weird position of having a CEO that

knows how to make money at businesses in

the original nonprofit board not liking

the direction of the company all the

drama that happened and now this it's

weird for a nonprofit to become the

industry lead in something and it makes

sense they're no longer a nonprofit but

God this is a weird scenario also have

not is that Sam Altman for the first

time now has equity in open AI crazy

enough Sam Altman didn't own any part of

open AI before so if they did really

well or poorly he might make a bit more

money but that was about it open aai was

not a company he owned stock in versus

like me I own a huge portion majority

portion of the things that we built with

ping Labs so upload thing marker thing

pick thing all those things as part of

ping I own over half of he owned zero

now he owns quite a bit more in fact the

amount he owns could be worth up to $150

billion after the restructuring as it's

also trying to remove the cap on returns

for investors which I mentioned before

there's that weird cap where you can

only make a certain multiplier on top we

remain focused on building AI that

benefits everyone we're working with our

board to ensure that we're best

positioned to succeed in our mission the

nonprofit is core to our mission and it

will continue to exist because the

structure right now before these changes

go in place for those who haven't kept

up with all of this is the open aai

board has stayed a fully nonprofit

entity and the open AI company where all

the engineers work and all the building

happens that is a company that reports

to the board underneath it so the board

is the ones who say what goes they're

the actual owners and decision makers

they have all the the voting shares of

the openai corporation but the open aai

corporation that can make money that

does all the work that does all these

things operates separately and that

separation was starting to cause tension

between the groups and now they are

separating entirely it actually seems

like it flipped where the corporation's

on top now and the board reports to them

as like a voter but they don't make the

decisions anymore the details of the

proposed corporate structure for

reported by Reuters highlight

significant governance changes happening

behind the scenes at one of the most

important AI companies they even call

out the Mira leaving thing that I

mentioned before the plan is still being

hashed out with lawyers and shareholders

and the timeline for completing the

restructure remains uncertain the

restructuring also comes amid a series

of leadership changes at the startup

open ai's longtime Chief technology

officer Mira mad abruptly announced her

departure from the company on Wednesday

Greg Brockman open ai's president has

also been on leave founded in 2015 as a

nonprofit AI research organization

openai added the for-profit openai lp

entity in 2019 as a subsidiary of its

nonprofit securing capital for Microsoft

to fund its research as I mentioned the

openai profitable part was a subsidiary

of the nonprofit the company captured

Global attention with the launch of chat

gbt in late 2022 which was a generative

AI app that spit out human-like

responses to text queries which became

one of the fastest growing applications

in history with over 200 million weekly

active users igniting Global race to

invest in AI along with chat gbt success

open ai's valuation is skyrocketed from

14 billion in 2021 to 150 billion in the

new convertible debt round under

discussion which is attracting investors

such as Thrive capital and apple the

company's unusual structure which gives

full control of the for-profit

subsidiary to the open AI nonprofit was

originally set to ensure the mission of

creating safe AGI that is broadly

beneficial referring to artificial

general intelligence that is at or

exceeding human intelligence as I

mentioned before the goal of open AI was

to create safe artificial general

intelligence that was available for

anyone to use so it wasn't just

Microsoft Apple and Facebook that had it

and no one else could the structure came

into focus last November during one of

the biggest boardroom dramas in Silicon

Valley members of the nonprofit board

ousted Altman over a breakdown in

communication and a loss of trust he was

reinstated after 5 days with

overwhelming support from employees and

investors what a crazy 5 days that was I

had a friend visiting and I had to spend

the entire time in my my room filming

and editing videos about the open AI

drama I really hope that's not about to

start again don't make me do this again

guys please

please since then open ai's board has

been refreshed with more Tech Executives

chaired by Brett Taylor former

Salesforce co-ceo who now runs his own

AI startup any corporate changes need

approval from its nine-person nonprofit

board the removal of nonprofit control

could make open AI operate more like a

typical startup a move generally

welcomed by its investors who have

poured billions into the company however

it could also raise concerns from the AI

safety Community about whether the lab

still has enough governance to hold

itself accountable in its pursuit of AGI

as it has dissolved the super alignment

team that focused on the long-term risks

of AI earlier this year I will say for

the conspiracy theorists and the people

who are really terrified of AI and AI

safety stuff you have quite the bullet

list to be scared about right now like

let's just go through first we have open

AI formed to make safe AGI for all the

reason it was formed is because there

was concern from these really smart

scientist folks including people like

Alman Elon Musk and many more that doing

AI safely was not a guarantee and that

lots of people developing I stuff could

do it in a way that would destroy

humanity and even if they didn't but it

was only made by a couple companies then

it wouldn't benefit all of humanity just

the bottom lines of those few companies

because of those concerns they formed

open AI to fight those concerns the

concerns being two parts the two major

concerns we one AI made for profit might

not be safe enough and the safety could

potentially destroy Humanity if people

are just trying to make money they might

leave safety aside and then get

destroyed point two is that powerful AI

should not be restricted to a small

number of Rich companies because if the

only people in the world that have ai

are like two to three big businesses

that's a massive unfair Advantage for

them that could destroy the economy

imagine if only three companies could

make websites terrifying so the two

things that open AI was formed to

prevent were unsafe Ai and a small

number of companies owning the best AI

these are the two reasons openai was

formed so let's go down the rabbit hole

here openai makes the LP for profit

section to make development faster for

profit part takes investments from the

very companies they were scared of and

here's where I think the conspiracy

theorists are going to start feeling

things because the original goal of

forming open AI to prevent these things

from happening started to feel like it

was being lost with the change of the

for-profit section but that was okay

because they still reported to the

nonprofit so anybody saying like oh open

AI is now going to be the problem they

were built to prevent well the open AI

nonprofit board is still the one in

control so is it that big a deal yeah it

is but it wasn't that bad at the time

time but then that for-profit section

started to take huge investments from

companies like Microsoft wait what about

that second part is Microsoft going to

get the thing that we didn't want them

to get well once we started releasing

the models open AI starts releasing

models with no way to run them yourself

and that was a big deal because as we've

MD many a time open AI has closed models

you cannot use their models the way you

want want to you have to use them via an

API on their infrastructure compared to

a lot of open models like llama from

meta or all the crazy things mistol is

doing there's a lot of open model

options that you have access to if you

want to run a model on your own Hardware

maybe embedded on a device stuff like

that open AI nope they do not allow that

which means the other goal of powerful

AI should not be restricted to a small

number of Rich companies we went from

believing that to not very quick here

almost alarmingly so on the other hand

to lightly defend them they did open

source all of their research they

published a lot of papers and a lot of

theories in the concept of an llm which

is a huge part of how these other open

source models could be created they

followed in the footsteps of the work

open AI did make public so they did

Advanced the ecosystem and they allowed

for other models to exist but their own

model their own best and of the best is

not something others have access to

which hurts 0 2 a lot but at least the

nonprofit still runs things right at

least they'll keep it safe

right well nonprofit Board gets

concerned about safety and incentives

Sam doesn't respond so board fires Sam

because at this point in time the board

was still in control and the board was

still people who were aligned with these

two goals and this is the point of the

board this is the board doing its job if

this is where it ended there' be no

conspiracy cuz they did their job they

kept AI at open AI safe and accessible

to all and instead of letting the

incentives of profit drive them in a way

that makes these two things problems but

then outrage brings Sam back OG board is

largely fired so the board didn't get to

do its job the board didn't get to have

its ultimate control where they decided

hey if the things are going in a

direction that we feel as unsafe or

potentially problematic we're going to

step in they can't and a large part of

why they were forced out as the board

was the investors at places like

Microsoft putting their weight behind it

so the whole point of keeping Rich

companies and money out of the best of

the best of AI has now flipped and that

same money they were concerned about

could be argued to be how the open AI

board collapsed which is insane but at

the very least they promised they would

continue to maintain the existing goals

but they promised the goals would not

change so again the goals are safety and

everyone has access we haven't touched

too much on the safety but now we have

to because the super alignment team gets

disbanded this was the team at open AI

That's whole thing was just keeping the

models in the AI in alignment with what

humans needed so their job was just

everything they had to do to keep AI

safe and from going haywire and killing

all of humans and that team has been

disbanded Ilia quits as well Ilia was

the Russian lunatic Super Smart Genius

who invented a lot of the techniques

that became modern Ai and it's also

really into the security and safety side

of AI he was heavily involved with the

super alignment team I think he actually

ran it and he was also originally on the

board before he got removed because he

was one of the ones pushing to get Sam

removed so now it looks like that safety

goal is starting to crumble too but to

go back to the goal two The Profit goal

now the super alignment team is

disbanded oh also I should mention here

that uh Microsoft now has a board seat

Ilia quits super elment team gets

disbanded and now much later open

AI is moving the nonprofit to a minority

shareholder

position so through this absurd process

we went from open AI being formed to

maintain these two goals to open AI

being traditional for-profit business

that has a lot of financial incentives

to up these two goals

so despite the initial structure of the

fully open company with the nonprofit

board so we've managed to get position

everybody was concerned about where the

company with the best AI is driven by

profit and might not have the right

incentives around safety and is making

things that are restricted to just the

best companies in the world so I think

it's fair to say the original two goals

open AI was founded on might not be as

deep in the blood of open AI anymore

especially goal two here but we need to

be keeping our eyes out for goal one I'm

not a conspiracy theorist I haven't seen

anything convincing enough to have me

scared about the future of AI tools

trying to kill humans but if you're one

of the people that is an extremist on

that here you go you you have your you

have your order of events to feed your

conspiracy brain and I fully understand

and now that they have a much stronger

for-profit drive safety is one of those

things that gets left behind when you're

driving profit pretty often so uh this

might be bad back to the article it's

unclear how much Equity Altman will

receive Alman already a billionaire from

his multiple startup Investments has

previously stated that he chose not to

take an equity stake in the company

because the board needed a majority of

disinterested directors with no stake in

the company he's also said he has enough

money and is doing it because he loves

the work the new structure of open AI

would resemble that of its major rival

in thropic as well as elon's XII which

are registered as benefit corporations a

form of for-profit that aims to promote

social responsibility and sustainability

in addition to making

profits we'll see how that goes and with

everything going as fast as it does Sam

has just tweeted once again literally

minutes ago we need to cover this oh boy

this seems to be a comment more on mea

leaving but this will certainly give us

more context on everything going on

Meera has been instrumental to open ai's

progress and growth for the last 6.5

years she has been a hugely significant

factor in our development from an

unknown research lab to an important

company when mea informed me this

morning that she was leaving I was

saddened but of course I support her

decision for the past years she has been

building out a strong bench of leaders

that will continue our progress I also

want to share that Bob and Barrett have

decided to depart open AI mea Bob and

Barret made these decisions

independently of each other and amicably

but the timing of Mirror's decision was

such that it made sense to now do all of

this at once so that we can work

together for a smooth hand over to the

next generation of leadership I am

extremely grateful to all of them for

their contributions being a leader at

open AI is all consuming on one hand

it's a privilege to build AGI and be the

fastest growing company that gets to put

our Advanced research in the hands of

hundreds of millions of people on the

other hand it's Relentless to lead a

team through it they've gone above and

beyond the Call of Duty for the company

Mark's going to be our new SVP of

research and will now lead the research

org in partnership with Jacob as Chief

scientist this has been our long-term

succession plan for Bob someday although

it's happening sooner than we thought I

couldn't be more excited that Mark is

stepping into the role Mark obviously

has deep technical expertise but he's

also learned how to be a leader in

manager in a very impressive way over

the past few years Josh is going to take

on a new role as head of mission

alignment working across the company to

ensure we get all pieces in culture

right to being a place to succeed at the

mission Kevin and three will continue to

lead the applied team Matt Knight will

be our chief information security

officer having already served in this

capacity for a long time spent our

planing for quite some time Mark Jacob

Kevin S Matt and Josh will all report to

me me being Sam I have over the past

year or so spent most of my time in the

non-technical parts of our organization

I'm now looking forward to spending most

of my time on the technical and product

parts of the company very interesting

that has been stuck doing non Tech stuff

and this shift is so he can go back in

the weeds again leadership changes are a

natural part of companies especially

companies that grow so quickly and are

so demanding I obviously won't pretend

it's natural for this one to be so

abrupt but we're not a normal company I

think the reasons Mira explained to me

there's never a good time anything not

abrupt would have leaked she wanted to

do this while open AI was in an upswing

all of these things made sense for it to

be now we can both talk about this more

tomorrow during all hands thank you all

for your hard work and dedication Sam

kind of nuts that they're doing a full

restructuring internally and definitely

lends Credence to the leak info we just

read from Reuters because it seems like

they're ready to fundamentally change

how open works and go all in on Startup

mode very very interesting I have

concerns

but yeah we'll see where this one ends

up I'm using CLA right now anyways but

I'm curious what y'all think do you like

the open AI drama are you tired of me

covering this and until next time peace

nerds