Maybe. Allegedly MS is throwing their weight around to try to force it, which does seem plausible.

Though I hope the board stands firm.

Ilya is much more valuable long term to the company than Altman, and frankly the latter leaving is the first time in about a year I’ve been bullish about OpenAI’s prospects.

They really walked their core product back in the past few months despite expanding their productization of it towards low hanging short-term fruit.

Ilya’s vision is spot on with where transformers are headed as complexity increases, and is one of the only scientists I’ve seen that really sees that horizon.

If Altman was standing in the way of getting there, it’s better that he’s gone.