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1,147karma·112submissions·March 26, 2023
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I have made a text submission instead with an added piece of information. Hope that's ok? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378 …
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In March, Sam Altman said that Pachocki's "overall leadership and technical vision" was essential for pre-training GPT-4. https://twitter.com/sama/status/16357…
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Typically they try to work out something behind the scenes before making a public announcement. And usually major stakeholders like Microsoft are brought into the decision-making process. The announc…
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Please expand on that. Details would be helpful.
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The board member in question is not one of the founders.
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Ilya and the board are entitled to their opinions and to act on them, but the whole process strikes me as extremely unprofessional, and something out of the Game of Thrones!
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This is no way to run an $80B company! This thread was detached. I was referring to https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594 …
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Greg Brockman & Sam Altman: "Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was bei…
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The whole sequence of events sounds amateurish and extremely unprofessional!
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Kara Swisher: The board members felt Altman was manipulative and headstrong. https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725733594310512775 …
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"it's interesting that someone with a 2014 bachelor's and a 2021 master's, with no experience other than a few years as a low-level employee at Open Philanthropy and then a strateg…
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You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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"Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at…
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LinkedIn says President, Chairman, & Co-Founder. Murati was the CTO. But from his interviews, he sounded more like the CTO. And often like an individual contributor: "the feeling when you f…
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Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make s…
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Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make …
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Followup tweet by Kara:
Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"! https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120 …
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Followup tweet by Kara: Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"! https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120 …
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LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency: Video https://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX/ …
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- The reason for the firing was the “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company for those who never read the actual content.
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Kara Swisher: a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028 She also says that there wi…
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High level AI developments: https://importai.substack.com/ https://www.semianalysis.com/
Hardware focused. Paywalled, but long article teasers contain plenty of infor…
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A great beginner guide to GPU programming concepts: https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles
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Release notes: https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/releases/tag/0.4... …