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Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, then 747 employees threatened to leave for Microsoft

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Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, then 747 employees threatened to leave for Microsoft

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OpenAI's November 2023 leadership crisis began when its board dismissed CEO Sam Altman. Microsoft backed him, hundreds of employees threatened to resign, and co-founder Ilya Sutskever reversed his…

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