On: OpenAI investors keep pushing for Sam Altman’s ret...

[woeirua]

Of course. The value of their investment goes to zero if all the employees walk away.

[karmasimida → woeirua]

OpenAI’s value IS their employees.

In aggregate they are secret sauce why GPT4 only exists in OpenAI not anywhere else. Data/compute are hard too, but some competitors do have the capacity.

[paul7986 → woeirua]

The employees have lots of power especially if they organize and demand a lot. As of now feels like they are being treated as pawns.