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- Karma played UNO reverse on Sam Altman 🔮
👋 Good Morning Needlers! yeah finally I said it, I had to let it out, you guys are the Needlers now, I understand if you would want to unsubscribe now but as you are already here, you might want to stick around for this one, as guess, who got played the UNO reverse from the Board.
Here’s what we got for you today:
The real reason behind Sam Altman Firing 🔫
Former Googler behind OpenAI rival valued at $2B 💰
Make Bard your personal assistant 🤵♂️
Imagine you plot against someone to get them fired and get fired instead, wait what?!.. I WANT IN ON THIS GAME! JK! I would not do that to anyone, especially to myself but our dear friend from Silicon Valley got himself into this, and eventually got out because of the support from his employees. This is why building a community is important. Let’s rewind a little bit and start from his board members very beginning.
On 17th November, Sam Altman got fired and it took the AI world by storm as there was no reason given but now new reports have come to light and suggests that Altman was playing the board members off one another who disagreed with his aggressive approach to rolling out AI tech. Him and Helen Toner always had this beef and when toner praised OpenAI’s rival is one of his papers, Altman tried to play it dirty but he wasn’t as good as he thought.
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