Sam Altman is back, so what’s next for OpenAI and ChatGPT?

The negotiations to deliver Sam Altman again to OpenAI slowly proceed.

Right here’s a short replace on the place issues stand with OpenAI right this moment, after an explosive weekend and a really complicated Monday which noticed the information of Sam Altman going to Microsoft slowly fade into Satya Nadella not seeming so certain that may occur.

— We’re instructed Altman nonetheless needs to return to OpenAI and continues to barter with the board right this moment.

— As Bloomberg reported late final night time, new interim CEO Emmett Shear is concerned in mediating these negotiations, creating the frankly unprecedented state of affairs the place (1) the interim CEO who changed (2) the interim CEO who changed Sam and who (3) obtained changed for making an attempt to get Sam again is now (4) deeply concerned in a new effort to get Sam again. Learn it by a number of instances, it’s wonderful. It doesn’t make any sense to anybody else both.

— Microsoft’s provide to rent everybody who threatened to stop remains to be on the desk, and has now been made formally public, after being famous within the worker walkout letter yesterday. Usually, Microsoft seems to have receded from the state of affairs; Nadella stays within the combine however has now made a number of media appearances reiterating that he’ll will work with Altman and OpenAI “no matter configuration,” which frankly seems like he’s speaking about the advantages of plug and play system drivers in Home windows. All of us fall again to what we all know.

— We’re instructed everybody, together with the board, is making an attempt to be affordable, and put OpenAI again collectively.

We’ll hold posting updates as now we have them; on the very least we will say the general temperature has dropped, but it surely’s not clear any of this leads to an precise return.