The Disintegration of OpenAI's Board of Directors
Sam Altman is out. Maybe !?
Regardless of who holds the title of CEO and who else remains on the board it will make little difference to users of OpenAI. And there are many using the OpenAI API harnessed to their website or application. None of the extras work unless you have upgraded to ver 4.0. If Altman is the real genius and creator it could affect ChatGPT5 and beyond. IRL (in real life) what matters is if the servers are running the code. As long as cash flow maintains on the servers which OpenAI uses (I think it must be Azure, because it’s their money in the game. The changes of ‘ownership’, if the OpenAI board writes the checks to Azure will go unnoticed and be transparent to users.
What is of critical importance is the stability of the build and reliabilitiy of the API for users. A 404 or other code would make everything moot.
Google’s AI is not a user friendly application for the public. It is a research theoretical lab. Some examples are:
Google Workspace,
MetNet-3: A s…
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