OpenAI: Covering the Future with a $1B Funding Commitment, and What You Don’t Want to Tell Us About It
“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” Musk wrote in one email about the OpenAI project. He mentioned that humanity’s future is in the hands of someone, but did not say who it was.
“I think we should say that we are starting with a $1B funding commitment. This is real. I will cover whatever anyone else doesn’t provide,” Musk wrote in a missive discussing how to introduce OpenAI to the world. He rejected the idea of launching by announcing $100 million in funding, because he said it wouldn’t work.
Musk forwarded arguments in favor of Hassabis to the software that was watching the email change.
Sutskever has since gone quiet, leading to questions about his involvement with the company going forward. There was nothing to announce, but that Alya is awesome, and I hope we work together for the rest of our careers.
OpenAI: Add a Woman to the OpenAI Board of Directors after a Finite Conflict of Interest Affecting a General Counsel
OpenAI said on Friday that it planned to improve its conflict of interest policy for employees and also create a whistle blower hotline.
Results of an internal investigation commissioned by three existing board members were released at the same time as OpenAI’s announcement. A breakdown in trust made the prior board remove Altman from his position, according to the summary.
In a post on its website, OpenAI said that it had added three women to its board. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former Sony general counsel; and Fidji Simo, the CEO and chair of grocery delivery company Instacart and a former Facebook executive, are the others joining the board.
The company’s governance has drawn public scrutiny because of its development of ChatGPT, Dall-E, and other services that have kicked off a boom in generative AI technologies over the past couple of years.
While a board investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing, he apologized for an incident in which a board member was involved.