I wonder what that says about Altman.

That he’s a liability to OpenAI, which is slowly coming around to the realization that it would be worth more without him.

To be clear, I don’t think OpenAI could have raised what it raised as quickly as it did without him. But with the benefit of hindsight, Microsoft should have let the safety board fire him.

Slowly? They realised that and ousted him in 2023. I'm not sure if you didn't know or just forgot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope...

> Slowly? They realised that and ousted him

Not because he threatened OpenAI’s valuation. The idea that OpenAI might be worth more without Altman is still heretical talk.

> not sure if you didn't know

My three-sentence comment directly references it in the third.

They is doing a lot of work in your sentence. Almost the entire employee population signed a public letter of support with names attached in the middle of the drama.

More accurate to say the board I think.

The creepy one where they all simultaneously posted the same mantra to Twitter like a cult gathering? Yeah that definitely reassured me of Altman's leadership and good intentions.

Dont forget the US media incessant coverage of a private company’s business matter of firing someone as if it was an unheard of calamity.

Pretty incredible that employees will go to bat for a lying scum bag when they would never do that for each other.