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<li>Sam returned as the CEO of OpenAI days after his surprise removal. Its board was overhauled with new members – Larry Summers and Bret Taylor.</li>
<li>The surprise removal of Sam was driven by philosophical differences over AI safety. Fears of employee exodus to Microsoft is the primary driver of his return to OpenAI leadership.</li>
<li>Recent events have solidified Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and Sam. Outcome from fallout suggests Microsoft will have a larger role in shaping OpenAI’s future.</li>
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Sam returned as the CEO of OpenAI days after his surprise removal. Its board was overhauled with new members – Larry Summers and Bret Taylor.
The surprise removal of Sam was driven by philosophical differences over AI safety. Fears of employee exodus to Microsoft is the primary driver of his return to OpenAI leadership.
Recent events have solidified Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI and Sam. Outcome from fallout suggests Microsoft will have a larger role in shaping OpenAI’s future.


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<ul><li>Nvidia’s quarter was surprising to me because it was boring. There were a few incremental pieces, but the big news was everything to do with China.</li><li>As you know, there was another round of export restrictions with a myopic focus on AI Accelerators.</li><li>This impacted results and the outlook.</li></ul>

Nvidia’s quarter was surprising to me because it was boring. There were a few incremental pieces, but the big news was everything to do with China.As you know, there was another round of export restrictions with a myopic focus on AI Accelerators.This impacted results and the outlook.

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<li>Sam Altman - one of OpenAI's founders and its CEO - has been ousted from the firm citing lack of consistent communication with the board. </li>
<li>OpenAI has garnered significant spotlight around Gen AI. Surely it is generating revenues at a rapid clip but far from making profits. What will this leadership transition mean?</li>
<li>Sam’s ousting was totally not expected. On 6th November, OpenAI held its first ever developer conference which was led by him. Earlier this week, he spoke at APEC conference. </li>
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Sam Altman - one of OpenAI's founders and its CEO - has been ousted from the firm citing lack of consistent communication with the board. 
OpenAI has garnered significant spotlight around Gen AI. Surely it is generating revenues at a rapid clip but far from making profits. What will this leadership transition mean?
Sam’s ousting was totally not expected. On 6th November, OpenAI held its first ever developer conference which was led by him. Earlier this week, he spoke at APEC conference. 


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<ul><li>Microsoft unveiled two major custom-designed chips for cloud computing at its Ignite developer conference on 15 Nov 2023, Maia 100 AI accelerator and Cobalt 100 CPU.</li><li>Maia 100 was specifically designed with consideration of Azure hardware. It will be mainly used for AI tasks and generative AI for maximized utilization of hardware.</li><li>It will power some of Microsoft’s largest internal AI workloads running on Azure. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Microsoft unveiled two major custom-designed chips for cloud computing at its Ignite developer conference on 15 Nov 2023, Maia 100 AI accelerator and Cobalt 100 CPU.Maia 100 was specifically designed with consideration of Azure hardware. It will be mainly used for AI tasks and generative AI for maximized utilization of hardware.It will power some of Microsoft’s largest internal AI workloads running on Azure. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

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<li>First mover advantage is half-truth. For every academic study proving that first-mover advantages exist, there is a study proving they do not.</li>
<li>Engineers at OpenAI, scaled up a special machine learning method using large data sets to create GPT or "Generative Pre-trained Transformer."</li>
<li>Launch of ChatGPT has put OpenAI revenues on steroids with reports suggesting USD 1.3B this year (versus USD 28 million before ChatGPT was rolled out).</li>
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First mover advantage is half-truth. For every academic study proving that first-mover advantages exist, there is a study proving they do not.
Engineers at OpenAI, scaled up a special machine learning method using large data sets to create GPT or "Generative Pre-trained Transformer."
Launch of ChatGPT has put OpenAI revenues on steroids with reports suggesting USD 1.3B this year (versus USD 28 million before ChatGPT was rolled out).


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Altman Allure at OpenAI: Where the Hunter Gets Hunted

Larry Summers on why he joined the board (https://youtu.be/N4eAushwLNE?si=eAK9GKrjmlUuTS-r): "This (technology) needs to be developed rapidly and...

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Nvidia's China Problems, Applied Materials, and Microsoft's Accelerators

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Shake Up at OpenAI: Sam Gone, Mira Is Interim CEO, Greg Not Chairman but Remains as President

Sam Altman has been removed from his position as CEO of OpenAI due to a lack of consistent communication with the board, raising questions about...

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Microsoft unveiled two major custom-designed chips for cloud computing at its Ignite developer conference on 15 Nov 2023, Maia 100 AI accelerator...

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Unpacking First Mover OpenAI. Can It Avoid the Fate of Netscape and MySpace?

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Maia 100 AI Accelarator which is optimized for Azure. It will cater towards customer's AI demand....

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Altman Allure at OpenAI: Where the Hunter Gets Hunted

Larry Summers on why he joined the board (https://youtu.be/N4eAushwLNE?si=eAK9GKrjmlUuTS-r): "This (technology) needs to be developed rapidly and...

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Nvidia's China Problems, Applied Materials, and Microsoft's Accelerators

Nvidia surprised everyone with a boring result! Applied Materials is an overreaction. Nvidia’s quarter was surprising to me because it was boring.

Fabricated Knowledge

Shake Up at OpenAI: Sam Gone, Mira Is Interim CEO, Greg Not Chairman but Remains as President

​Sam Altman has been removed from his position as CEO of OpenAI due to a lack of consistent communication with the board, raising questions about...

Mint Finance

Technology (Hardware/Semi)

Microsoft unveiled two major custom-designed chips for cloud computing at its Ignite developer conference on 15 Nov 2023, Maia 100 AI accelerator...

CMB International

Unpacking First Mover OpenAI. Can It Avoid the Fate of Netscape and MySpace?

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Maia 100 AI Accelarator which is optimized for Azure. It will cater towards customer's AI demand....

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Sam Altman has been removed from his position as CEO of OpenAI due to a lack of consistent communication with the board, raising questions about...