Everyone on that board is financially independent and can do whatever they want. If Sam & Ilya can't get along that basically means there are 2 companies where previously there was OpenAI. (4 if you add Google and Anthropic into the mix; remember that OpenAI was founded because Ilya left Google, and then Anthropic was founded when a bunch of top OpenAI researchers left and started their own company).
Ultimately this is good for competition and the gen-AI ecosystem, even if it's catastrophic for OpenAI.
Ultimately this is good for competition and the gen-AI ecosystem, even if it's catastrophic for OpenAI.