recruiting Ilya away from Google to Open AI originally way back when it happened. So Ilya being at the center of this seemed to reinforce for some people that this was a disagreement around safety questions, but it also kind of started to seem like maybe there was a lot of just the very classic garden variety interpersonal struggle stuff, right? Ilya had been demoted about a month ago in terms of how much authority he had. Clearly didn't like that. And so personally, I was left wondering, is it actually these AI safety questions or is it not? So going into sort of Saturday night, we have what's clear is that there's a sort of a groundswell of people trying to get Sam back in in power in Open AI. There's a sticking point with the board doesn't want to resign, or maybe it's that they don't know who's going to replace them on the board. And so there's a lot of intransigence. And then on Sunday, Sam is back at Open AI to actually try to figure this thing out and negotiate. He's in the (15/57)
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