This looks extremely stupid from the board and validates the theory that most of the board has no clue on large organisation governance, full of people who have mostly not seen boardrooms in action. It will be very very hard for OpenAI to raise money with the presence of such a maverick board, and I doubt MSFT would want to give a penny more to them without some big changes. For the people saying they don't owe anything to MSFT, MSFT is the 49% stock holder in the LLC, and a 49% stockholder almost never gets treated like this anywhere else, doesn't matter if the remaining 51% is held by a non profit or not.
For people saying they shouldn't have done the MSFT deals, how else would they have gotten the money to build anything at all considering how much GPUs cost? Their competitor Anthropic is doing the same raising money from all of big tech, made possibly only due to the ridiculous success of ChatGPT. For others saying Ilya is the key, Google had a big lead on AI researchers and the only reason Google is not the undisputed king is due to bad leadership and product development.
For people saying they shouldn't have done the MSFT deals, how else would they have gotten the money to build anything at all considering how much GPUs cost? Their competitor Anthropic is doing the same raising money from all of big tech, made possibly only due to the ridiculous success of ChatGPT. For others saying Ilya is the key, Google had a big lead on AI researchers and the only reason Google is not the undisputed king is due to bad leadership and product development.