Sam Altman back as CEO of Open AI just days after the board fired him.

Who came out on top? What questions remain and what it might mean for the public companies involved.

It is Wednesday, November 22nd, Thanksgiving, Eve, and welcome to the Tech Check

podcast.

I'm Deerejubosa.

And I'm Mark Gilbert.

The more things change the more they stay the same. A

boardroom coup where the CEO actually returned. It's like Steve Jobs at Apple but

condensed into four days.

Sam Altman, back as CEO, the board replaced,

Microsoft's position remains intact.

D, I think the big questions now is who came out on top.

Yeah, and the short answer there is that we still really don't know.

It's amazing how much has happened over the last five days and still how little we know. But I think we can say at least that

Microsoft so far has come out on top. Everyone else is sort of a question mark. Open AI can

continue to operate as Microsoft's research lab.

Microsoft doesn't have to take on that reputational and executional risk that we talked about over the last few days mark.

Doesn't have a board seat either, but even that could be a win. Does it want one? This has been a mess. And, you know, whatever happens in the future, you know, I think at least we can say that Microsoft wants to remain in arm's length away

because it feels like in a lot of ways we're back to square one.

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, they're back at Open AI, there is no mass exodus, but, and I can't emphasize this enough, the company,

no we can't call it a company.

The organization remains a nonprofit with a mission to serve humanity.

...