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- Sam Altman reportedly negotiated a new deal with Apple to bring ChatGPT to iPhone.
- OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft gives it access to infinite computing and permanent customers.
- Two employees left OpenAI as it announced its new flagship GPT-4o model.
Reports flooding the internet indicate that OpenAI and Apple are ironing out the final details of a new deal that would see ChatGPT debut on iPhones and the iOS 18 update coming soon.
Alongside the new flagship GPT-4o model, OpenAI revealed its new macOS app snubbing Windows despite Microsoft’s heavy investment in the company. OpenAI explained that the decision to offer ChatGPT to Mac users centered on it prioritizing where its users are located. This potentially indicates that most ChatGPT users use Apple devices.
OpenAI’s top executives leave the company
OpenAI had a busy week releasing a new flagship GPT-4o model at its just-concluded Spring Update event, which can reason through audio, vision and text in real-time, making interactions with ChatGPT more intuitive.
Oddly enough, the creator of ChatGPT lost a few employees during this crucial week in its history. Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, announced that he is leaving the startup after nearly a decade for a “personally significant” project. Although details remain slim, Sutskever indicated he would release more details about his next move in due course.
Sutskever added:
“The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I am confident that OpenAI will create an AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of Sam Altman and other senior leaders.”
After almost a decade, I made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I am confident that OpenAI will build an AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the…May 14, 2024
A few days later, after Sutskever, @signüll on X (formerly Twitter) announced that he had also resigned from OpenAI. They have since updated their profile on beyond “.
The former OpenAI employee did not reveal why he was resigning from the company, but gave some insight into what is happening inside the company. In an article on X, Signüll describes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as “a genius strategist. He used the enemy of my enemy principle to perfection.”
Signüll listed the following as the premise of the statements highlighted above:
- He completely neutralized the threat from Elon Musk.
- He negotiated an incredible deal with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for infinite computing and forever customers.
- He negotiated a new deal with Apple to make OpenAI native on iPhone to capture the zeitgeist and consumer usage.
Sam Altman is a genius strategist – he used the enemy of my enemy principle to perfection. 1) he completely neutralized the Elon threat. 2) negotiated an incredible deal with Satya for infinite calculation and a client eternal.3) has now negotiated a deal with apple to make openai… pic.twitter.com/RiTTrsslHTMay 15, 2024
“OpenAI now sits between two of the largest companies in the consumer and enterprise sector. It has consistently cemented OpenAI as the de facto name when anyone in the world thinks of “AI” and has turned every weakness of OpenAI into a strength – the only guy who could make Google dance and put him in an extremely uncomfortable position. Absolutely incredible execution.
The complicated partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI might be too complex to understand
Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI and its technology has allowed it to adapt to AI and integrate it into most of its products and services. It is now the most valuable company in the world with more than $3 trillion in market capitalization, ahead of Apple.
But the partnership hasn’t been a walk in the park either, especially after last year’s OpenAI fiasco that led to Sam Altman’s firing and reinstatement as CEO by the Board of Directors. ‘administration. During this period, Microsoft remained silent, but rumors indicated that the company was ready to absorb hundreds of OpenAI employees into its new AI division at its LinkedIn offices in San Francisco.
As you may know, Microsoft owns a 49% stake in OpenAI’s for-profit arm, which essentially means it stands to lose a lot if OpenAI’s success is short-lived. Interestingly, this doesn’t seem to faze Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
“We were very confident in our own capabilities. We have all the intellectual property rights and all the capabilities. I mean, look, if tomorrow OpenAI disappeared, I don’t want any of our customers to worry about it, very honestly, because we have all the rights to continue innovation, not just to serve the products But we can just do what we were doing in partnership, ourselves, and so we have the people, we have the calculation,. We have the data, we have everything.”
Satya Nadella has previously indicated that OpenAI would not have existed without Microsoft’s early investment and adoption of its technology and services. Interestingly, the former OpenAI member revealed that most people don’t understand the complex partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. The deal reportedly includes “a very funny clause.”
What most people don’t understand or realize is that @sama negotiated a very funny clause in the deal with Microsoft. Once Openai reaches AGI, Microsoft has no IP and at 49% they have no control. Who can report when/if there is AGI? it would be openai & @sama.May 16, 2024
Once OpenAI achieves the coveted AGI status, Microsoft will have no intellectual property and, despite its 49% stake, it will have no control. OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman would take all the credit.
Sam Altman and Satya Nadella on superintelligence
Last year, a report indicated that OpenAI was close to achieving superintelligence (codenamed Q* (Q-Star)), which may have contributed to Sam Altman’s firing. He further revealed that the company would hit AGI within a decade or sooner, with chief scientist Ilya Sutskever leading operations on that front at the time.
OpenAI’s CEO hasn’t been shy about his ambitions to reach AGI, but Microsoft’s Satya Nadella doesn’t seem too concerned about superintelligence. His attention is focused elsewhere, as highlighted in a previous interview:
“I focus much more on the benefits for all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the Industrial Revolution didn’t affect the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I’m looking for what could be even bigger than the industrial revolution, and actually do what the industrial revolution did for the West, for the whole world. So I’m not at all worried about the appearance of AGI, or its rapid appearance. Great, right? This means that 8 billion people live in abundance. It’s a fantastic world to live in. »
In an interview with The Economist Editor-in-Chief, OpenAI Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the future of AI. Altman revealed that the company was still pursuing the AGI benchmark, although he did not indicate whether the company was following a radical or progressive trajectory while exploring possibilities in the space.
When asked about the safety of such a major technological advancement, Altman admitted that there was no big red button designed to stop AI’s progress. He added that if OpenAI were to reach superintelligence AGI, people would experience the standard two-week “panic attack” before things returned to normal:
“One thing I say a lot is that no one knows what will happen next, and I can’t see the other side of that horizon in any detail. But it seems that deep human motivations will lead nowhere.“
When it comes to maintaining AI privacy and security, Sam Altman says there should be an “international agency” mandated to review the security of the technology and regulate AI like an aircraft for prevent harm to humanity.
Elon sues OpenAI for blatant betrayal of its founding mission, amid copyright infringement concerns
Earlier this year, Elon Musk recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman for abandoning its original mission and vision: to make AI available to everyone for free. The billionaire claimed that OpenAI had been transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft and was now focused more on generating revenue, while referring to the Chat maker’s GPT-4 model as “a proprietary algorithm of de facto of Microsoft”.
Musk added that the GPT-4 model constitutes AGI and wants the law to force OpenAI to return to its founding mission, which includes making its research, discoveries and technological advances easily accessible to the public.
Elon Musk has been quite vocal about advances in AI and has even indicated that we are on the verge of the biggest technological revolution with AI, but that there will not be enough power by 2025. He estimates there is a 20% chance that AI will end. humanity, but still asserts that technology should be explored despite inevitable catastrophe.