Sam Altman To Microsoft, OpenAI In Flux — With Dan Primack

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dan Primack is the business editor at Axios and author of the daily Axios Pro Rata newsletter. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down ex-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's apparent move to Microsoft, whether he'll stay there, how the board structure enabled this, and how the competitive balance in the AI field shifts now. Stay tuned for the end, where we rate winners, losers, and a bold prediction from Primack. --- You can subscribe to Big Technology Premium for 25% off at https://bit.ly/bigtechnology Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Sam Altman is heading to Microsoft to build an advanced new AI research team, along with the former president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, and what it seems like is going to be many former Open AI employees. We'll break it down right after this. Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:23.7	What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:26.0	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:30.1	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:35.2	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that will help you live,
0:38.4	work, and play smarter.
0:40.0	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:46.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcasts.
0:48.5	We are apparently a daily show as long as this Open AI drama is going on.
0:52.9	Dan Permanak is here.
0:56.0	He is the business editor at Axios and the author of the Daily Axios Pro Rata newsletter. Dan, welcome to the show.
1:01.6	Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. It wasn't expecting to be here, but good to be here.
1:05.0	Yeah, I feel like when our listeners hear your voice, it means the shit is hitting the fan in
1:09.7	Silicon Valley. And here we are again. Yeah, that's where we are. Absolutely. Let me start with this question.
1:16.2	We now know that Sam Altman is apparently going to Microsoft with Greg Brockman and a bunch of other
1:23.5	open AI employees. There's like 500 or more Open AI employees who are still trying to get
1:30.1	Sam to return to the company. Is this positive podcast going to be obsolete like the moment
1:35.9	that we posted or do you think he's actually sticking at Microsoft?
1:39.3	It may be obsolete. I mean, there's basically two schools of thought here. One is that Microsoft has
1:44.9	just had it with Open AI and the board, despite, you know, we support them, et cetera. And it's just like,
1:48.9	you know what, we can build, if not this exact thing in house. We can build this in house. We already
1:53.5	have access to chat GPT. You know, there's no patents on it, et cetera. So let's just bring the brains in and let's build our future because AI is
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