Openai’s structural disorder
The future of Openai, whose chatpt has launched a arms race in artificial intelligence, has become even more cloudy. A majority of its workers called on his board of directors to resign after having ousted Sam Altman as CEO on the marketing speed of his technology.
The conflict also highlights special surveillance at the top of some of the main AI companies that could affect the future of technology. And there are signs that the OPENAI board of directors may not give in despite the staff uprising.
Here is the last: More than 700 of the 770 employees of OpenAi – including ILYA STSKEVERthe chief scientist and member of the board of directors who initially prompted to withdraw Altman – asked that the council resigns. Altman always tries to Back as CEO and is in Speak with the company. The Openai board had Approached a high level, anthropic rivalAbout a merger, according to information. Marc Benioff de Salesforce Try to attract OPENAI employees with comfortable financial offers.
Openai dilemma: Commentators noted the company Unusual, conflict structure. A non -profit board of directors with a mission to benefit from humanity Supervise a for-profit arm supported by Microsoft and venture capital companies, notably Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures.
THE The objective of the whole company is to build an artificial general intelligence, highly autonomous systems which “surpass humans surpass a most economically precious work” but “benefits all humanity”. Openai’s commercial arm has been created to support this extremely expensive objective, but it is held by limits to the profits that take place towards investors, as well as no right of governance for investors. This is why Microsoft, Thrive and others have little direct lever on how the company is managed.
Ironically, Altman helped to design this configuration – and was finally the victim.
It is not the only unusual business structure in the AI industry. Anthropic, started with a dozen former OpenAi employees concerned about their former race for the profits of their former employer, is created as a Public Benefit Corporation. This structure aims to balance the interests of a wide range of stakeholders.