He probably got repositioned somewhere else within Microsoft… probably.
They were (and are) losing a shit ton of money. I kind of knew something like this would happen.
And Brockman just quit. Hell of a shakeup over there.
I guess Microsoft did not like the guy, so they replaced him, I guess.
I hate Executives, in all companies, it is always how to push the next guy under the bus.
I don’t think it was Microsoft that did it. Look at what happened to Microsoft stock. It took a hit because of it. I have heard that Microsoft is the problem. Being that he was too closely tied to Microsoft. Which the board was not happy about.
Right after President Xi visit…
My theory… they cracked AGI and have been running it in their backend for a bit. That’s what is training GPT5. It also explains weird data thats been coming out that appears to show the base gpt4 model remembering context across different threads, as well as some odd statements Altman has made about the AI learning from conversations. The board found out, and realized he was lying to the board, the gov, and the public. Fired. JUST A THEORY
They asked uncensored GPT 5 if he should be and it recommended this
GOP offered him a job in a hearing
Some didn’t like ‘Move fast break things’
My guess is the powers that be wanted “their guy” in that will do whatever is told of them.
Sam was probably too problematic at this point.
I am interested to see if new leadership of OpenAI would be more LLM dev friendly and stop conspiring with politicians to hinder open source LLM community innovations.