{"id":196284,"date":"2023-11-25T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=196284"},"modified":"2023-11-25T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:29:33","slug":"elon-musk-leads-reaction-to-microsoft-hiring-ex-openai-boss-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/elon-musk-leads-reaction-to-microsoft-hiring-ex-openai-boss-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft hiring ex-OpenAI boss Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella hiring ousted OpenAI boss Sam Altman saying &#8216;Now they have to use teams&#8217; as social media explodes over stealth move: &#8216;Pulling this off before the market opens is crazy!&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Microsoft hires Sam Altman after his shock sacking by OpenAI<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk has weighed in on the surprise hire of OpenAI boss Sam Altman by Microsoft, quipping that\u00a0&#8216;Now they will have to use Teams!&#8217; as the tech world has gone into overdrive following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Social media has erupted with reaction to the bombshell news, which was shared\u00a0by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on X, formerly Twitter, before the markets opened on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Altman helped to turn OAI into a profitable business and oversaw development of the cutting edge ChatGPT system, and now many have suggested his ousting from the firm could mark the start of a brain drain, with others expected to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision to onboard Altman, his colleague Greg Brockman, and others from OAI has been hailed as a bold move by Nadella, who has made no secret of his ambition to push Microsoft ahead of its competitors in the field of Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Many online have expressed their approval at the stealth move by Nadella &#8211; with the Microsoft boss being labelled as the ultimate CEO, a &#8216;4D chess player&#8217;, and compared to Succession&#8217;s Logan Roy due to his savvy business sense.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78018095-12770529-image-a-51_1700485096445.jpg\" height=\"453\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman helped to turn OAI into a profitable business and oversaw development of the cutting edge ChatGPT system<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78018087-12770529-image-a-52_1700485104029.jpg\" height=\"167\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78017743-12770529-image-a-54_1700485134018.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/12\/78018077-12770529-image-a-55_1700485182189.jpg\" height=\"871\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Commentators online have suggested Nadella has cleverly taken on the top talent from OAI without pumping more investment into the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Some have called him &#8216;the smartest&#8217; while others applauded his &#8216;incredible&#8217; stealth move, with one sharing a meme of an UNO reverse card to highlight what they see as his astounding success.<\/p>\n<p>One X user wrote: &#8216;Microsoft just acquired OpenAI without acquiring OpenAI. And made it fully for-profit without making it fully for-profit. Satya plays 4D Chess.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tech podcaster Jason Calacanis shared his prediction on X, declaring that the dramatic move means it is now &#8216;anyone&#8217;s game to win&#8217; in the world of AI, which OAI had been dominating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/13\/78017745-12770529-image-a-56_1700486001928.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He wrote: &#8216;OpenAI is going to collapse Microsoft, Google, and anyone with a budget is going to raid what&#8217;s left of the team that doesn&#8217;t go with Sam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The entire poker table has been tossed over\u2026 chips, drinks, cards, players strewn everywhere \u2014 complete chaos. And chaos is a ladder It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s game now&#8230; this implosion will great for the industry\u2026 it&#8217;s on!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another X user went even further, suggesting that the shakeup marks a huge turning point in human history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Somehow in this epic meltdown, Satya swoops in, wins it all, and wins with grace. I&#8217;m floored,&#8217; Dr Jim Fan wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/13\/78017737-12770529-image-a-57_1700486535281.jpg\" height=\"443\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;OpenAI was invincible until Friday. Now Microsoft will fully own an in-house GPT-4 in ~9 months, leverage its massive distribution power to spin the biggest data flywheel ever, collect huge profits, and scale the most powerful intelligence on Azure &#8211; while doing all this without any non-profit governance whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s an exaggeration to say that the course of humanity changed abruptly and fundamentally on 11\/20\/23.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford AI scientist then pointed out that Microsoft scooping Altman was probably &#8216;not at all what the coup intended&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>There were also suggestions that the hire was part of an effort on Nadella&#8217;s part to make good on his promise to take on the search engine giant that is Google.<\/p>\n<p>One X user musing that &#8216;this could be the end of not just OpenAI but Google.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They suggested that the pair&#8217;s influence could mean &#8216;we&#8217;ll all be using Bing Chat in the next 2-3 years,&#8217; referring to Microsoft&#8217;s less popular search engine.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview earlier this year, the Microsoft boss described Google, one of his company&#8217;s main competitors, as an &#8216;800-pound gorilla&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said that with Microsoft&#8217;s &#8216;innovation&#8217;, it could take the tech behemoth on and make Google &#8216;dance&#8217;. Now, as X users suggested, the move is likely to be ruffling some feathers in the tech world.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12770529\/Elon-Musk-leads-reaction-Microsoft-boss-Satya-Nadella-hiring-ousted-OpenAI-boss-Sam-Altman-saying-use-teams-social-media-explodes-stealth-Pulling-market-opens-crazy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella hiring ousted OpenAI boss Sam Altman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":196283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft hiring ex-OpenAI boss Sam Altman - Tokens Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/elon-musk-leads-reaction-to-microsoft-hiring-ex-openai-boss-sam-altman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elon Musk leads reaction to Microsoft hiring ex-OpenAI boss Sam Altman - 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