Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI

The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress.
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[@Tech-Nostalgic]

THANK YOU for not making us wait till Friday to discuss this insanity 🙌🏻

[@stringfenix]

Especially since everybody's off this week 😭

[@MikeyGlazer]

Yeah, we would just be sitting and waiting and waiting....

[@judemusyoki7052]

I'm genuinely grateful for this podcast for moments like this And who could have predicted Org charts being central to this 😂

[@LegendaryLuke941]

In KZbin titles can you say weather it is a video or audio, keep the great podcast coming.

[@neelabh06]

Seconded. Please do it, team Verge!

[@tayjn]

The situation is moving so fast that this episode may already be outdated

[@elvisvan]

that is because we're all very active on twitter and so invested in this drama

[@elvisvan]

objectively to people not in close touch with the tech world, this podcast update is very up-to-date with breaking news right now

[@jpwoods92]

Love it! Thanks for the "hot off the press" take!

[@tasdourian]

If you hadn't done an emergency podcast-- which I have been checking for on youtube for the last 10 hours-- I would have been shocked. (Though given it is Thanksgiving week, I would have understood.) Great stuff, thanks!

[@ironcrafter54]

Even More Vergecast thank you so much!

[@osohista]

really looking forward to the David Fincher movie adaptation of this

[@Teddward]

Yall have the video… I saw it on TikTok… That’s why I came over here… why not post it on KZbin?????

[@themizarkshow]

Love that we got an emergency pod... felt needed and was refreshing to hear you three discuss the chaos. Trying to follow it over the weekend felt overwhelming so I can't imagine being the journos covering it.

[@hugevibez]

I think Nilay's suggestion that Microsoft might end up owning OpenAI hits the nail right on the head. I wouldn't necessarily call this OpenAI's "burning platform" moment, but Brockman flipping his stance like that definitely means there is a factor to this that we are currently unaware of.

[@mshark2205]

Brockman?

[@vger2]

This emergency podcast was gold. Even listening a day or so late, the info was red hot and still informing, even though more surprises were to come. 👍🏻

[@tishinpadilla100]

It is encouraging to hear people speaking about this honestly and in a clear headed and sober manner. Most of the other people speaking on this situation tend to sound blind and cultish. I was starting to think no one else was seeing this clearly. Well done folks. Keep it up. I would add a heart emoji but...

[@limitedhangout9341]

I've been freaking out over all this drama, am so excited to see you did a podcast on this topic, cannot wait to hear what ya'll gotta say!

[@runningclown5292]

how am i just discovering you guys now? I've been missing out!

[@BrianJOlds]

Kudos on getting this out so quickly

[@JoeOklahoma]

This was an *outstanding* rundown.

[@madf00bar15]

Great job guys, this is the popcorn moment of the year!

[@fredzacaria]

veeery good episode, extremely informative thanks😊

[@RAYDEEY17]

This literally came out of nowhere. But we all know open AI started as a nonprofit. I bet Sam realised it's not cheap to run those servers. This is what happens when you sell your soul to an evil corporation.

[@memofromessex]

There's already NSFW image AI. It's impressive when it works well, terrifying when it doesn't.

[@danielnicholas2786]

Sitting here listening to the podcast in pocket cast wishing I could watch the team discuss this instead of just listen. See the KZbin version pop up, get excited, jump on and it's just audio 😤

[@MikeShyu]

This story was a great listen

[@benbranca]

Emergency pods are my favorite ❤

[@mshark2205]

OpenAI merging with Athropic and moving to Google cloud? Not so good for MSFT and Satya

[@ornamentalpotato]

14:55 im imagining the succession phone scenes from season 4

[@limitedhangout9341]

This OpenAi drama is going to make a great movie someday!

[@_sophies]

Sundar Pichai must be going "look who's dancing now!"

[@fiddlefiver]

Thats going to be a great Netflix TV series . Cant wait for 2028

Microsoft will be safe either way, with a reorganization of the board at OpenAI or with it's own team headed by Sam Altman, that being said, If I were Satya I would pray that there's no agreement and they manage to really start that team and try to shyly play my cards toward that.

[@allenlatournous4252]

im sat

[@LambertxMc]

Google’s Trojan Horse Marissa Mayers? Lol She would have brought down Open AI from the inside like she did to Yahoo.