OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft
OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft
During the chaos after Sam Altman's ouster, Microsoft offered to hire the CEO and his entire workforce. Insiders now say it was a bluff that worked.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI late last month, the startup's employees threatened to leave and accept a blanket offer from Microsoft to hire them all.
After the sudden ouster of their CEO, hundreds of OpenAI employees signed an open letter demanding Altman's reinstatement and the resignation of the board.
At the time, their main source of leverage was a plan to all quit and join Altman and President Greg Brockman at a new AI group within Microsoft.
The letter itself was drafted by a group of longtime staffers who have the most clout and money at stake with years of industry standing and equity built up, as well as higher pay.
While OpenAI staffers would have followed through with their threat and joined Microsoft, they probably would have left at the first opportunity for other AI startups such as Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Cohere, the employee added.
Another former OpenAI employee agreed, saying people working at the San Francisco-based startup "look down on what they consider legacy companies" and "see themselves as innovators who are radically changing the world."
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Can’t say I blame them. MSFT is the epitome of “overworked, underpaid”