Gen AI is what happens when you ship something about 8 years too early and hope it doesn't catch up with you.

rushed a little but will refine and add some more info I've been given if it bangs. -project strawberry / qstar ai explained has been close to this for a while so i'd watch them for a cleaner take if you want to dig in. this is what ilya saw. it's what has broken math benchmarks. it's more akin to rlhf than throwing compute at the problem. sus column r is a very very tiny open ai model using strawberry. strawberry in the larger models comes on thursday. think of it as an llm fine-tuned to reason like a human. hence why sam liked the level two comment, and felt great about it. ilya did not. here we are. -huge models, sora, voice, video and safety. i'd referenced some model sizing based on meta and claude having small 8b, medium 72b and large 405b. this is a simple way to frame and means nothing. except that a much larger version of 4o is coming. when you try it, it will be the first noticeable jump that we saw when going from gpt 3 to 4. the jump from original 4 to sonnet 3.5 will seem insignificant in comparison. arrives next week with strawberry. gpt next. etc. so gpt next (internally called gpt x, you could call it gpt5) is also ready to go. lots here relies on safety and what google do next. it's difficult to say if competition will trump safety. though red teaming is finished and post training is done. this model is such an enormous leap in capabilities it's becoming impossible to make the model safe. if you had this particular model unlocked, you could easily disrupt the world on an unprecedented scale. when you mix in voice, video, sora, agents, and the eye-watering capabilities, things hot up. they'll get the safety right and they'll roll it out I'm sure. this is why we post don't die or vague post around how everything is about to change forever etc. it is. we've tried the models. it's insane. i'm not directly an agent, though i've had access to an early benchmark of five to take over an account and influence some big names in the field to carry out a few things for me. github was one such case of using the model to convince several to launch. sora and voice rollout it's expensive. especially sora. it's proving incredibly difficult to make safe. without guardrails for example you can with a simple prompt create a video of a world leader saying anything in their own style and voice, and effortlessly hack into large scale state secrets. if you haven't read situational awareness, it lays a lot of this out. we will get a step change next week it won't quite be gpt5. gpt5 / next / x / is more comparable to the jump made from gpt1-4. this is why sam feels great. ilya was right. you can scale your way to a digital god with or without strawberries. but strawberries + scale will cure world problems overnight. sam. obviously not random chance you'll see i've been rocking with current / former openai employees and jimmy for a while. tldr. we are launching strawberry. we wanted to generate some hype. we did. please burn after reading.

It's official: Sam Altman just confirmed the new Q* model breakthrough was a leak. Plus, huge developments in AI from Elon Musk, Microsoft, the UK, Ideogram, Stanford/USC, Mastercard, and 9 new AI tools. Here's the rundown of everything you need to know:

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

Update: - @Sama and the OpenAI board are now in talks for his possible return, specifically he's speaking with @adamdangelo - one scenario, transition board where Sam would serve as director - meantime @eshear has told folks he will leave if the board can't provide evidence of wrongdoing with @ashleevance @EdLudlow bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What Jon wrote, plus... * It's reported that reported the OpenAI board approached Anthropic (OpenAI’s top competitor) for a potential MERGER but was declined.

The OpenAI saga continues to get more insane day by day... Plus, huge developments behind the scenes from Meta, Amazon, Runway, C3 AI, Microsoft, and 10 new AI tools. Here's everything going on in AI right now:

What we know after today's CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella's interview with Bloomberg TV about situation with OpenAI and Microsoft: 1) He said they have all IP and legal stuff to succeed with Sam and the team if they join Microsoft. 2) He doesn't know why the board fired Sam Altman 3) He repeated multiple times that wherever Sam goes Microsoft will work with him and the team 4) There's no 100% certainty if Sam Altman returns to OpenAI or joins Microsoft. 5) Satya mentioned that they are leaders not only LLMs (with OpenAI) but also SLMs (small language models) 6) Satya mentioned that they have a lot of research and innovation at Microsoft in AI Conclusion: we still don't know what happens with OpenAI, Sam, Greg and the team as of Monday evening.

Since some people *still* don’t understand what’s happening, let me introduce you to the “lead” member of the board - Adam D’Angelo. Adam has a company Poe which was made obsolete by the GPTs OpenAI announced on dev day. Adam was furious the board didn’t give him advance notice so his competitor could have a head start. Adam manipulated the EA people on the board that there was an existential AI risk & that Sam had withheld information (he was bitter about the launch of GPTs). Adam’s goal was a hostile takeover of OpenAI — all in a conspiracy to shutdown his #1 competitor. Adam refuses to make a public statement because he’s busy lawyering up. Adam was the ringleader behind everything. @vkhosla @jason @karaswisher @Scobleizer @levie @fforres @AutismCapital @AviSchiffmann @Kantrowitz @mgsiegler

So Emmet Shear is becoming the CEO of Empty AI?

satya and my top priority remains to ensure openai continues to thrive we are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers the openai/microsoft partnership makes this very doable

the openai leadership team, particularly mira brad and jason but really all of them, have been doing an incredible job through this that will be in the history books. incredibly proud of them.

Will Open AI staff that revolted fancy moving up the road to Microsoft instead? Guessing not.

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

Goodbye OpenAI. I recommend all employees quit. Your board has defamed your old CEO, kept you in the dark all weekend and gone through two CEOs in about 48 hours. They’re incompetent beyond measure.

🚨 BREAKING: Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch has been hired as the new interim CEO of OpenAI.

🚨 Big updates on the return of Sam Altman: -The board has AGREED to resign but has delayed the negotiations until they find a replacement board. -Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is leading the discussions in negotiations. -One confirmed new board member is @btaylor, former CEO of Salesforce. -Sam is keeping options open.

🚨BREAKING: @sama is back as @OpenAI CEO, pending some details being worked out tomorrow morning

twitter as giant groupchat in full effect today as we watch real life succession + silicon valley remix for gen-z unfold

wow. openai staff set a deadline of 5pm tonight for all board members to resign and bring sam and greg back, or else they all resign. the board agreed but is now waffling and its an hour past the deadline. this is all happening in real time, right now.