Nov. 8, 2025
"The Five Days That Almost Killed AI: OpenAI's Thanksgiving Massacre"
November 17, 2023: OpenAI's board fires Sam Altman via Zoom, sparking the most dramatic coup in Silicon Valley history. Over five days during Thanksgiving week, 95% of employees threaten to quit, Microsoft offers to hire them all, and the board's idealistic attempt to slow AI development spectacularly backfires. From Ilya Sutskever's tearful betrayal and instant regret to Sam's chess master response that turned termination into triumph, Marcus Reid reveals how a nine-minute video call nearly destroyed a $90 billion company. Two years later, Sam rules an AI empire worth $157 billion while his would-be usurpers are footnotes. In tech, nice coups finish last.
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Calaruga, Shark Media. November seventeenth, twenty twenty three, twelve twenty
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eight pm Pacific time. Sam Altman is in a Las
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Vegas hotel room, preparing for the APEX summit, where he'll
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represent American AI innovation to world leaders. His phone buzzes
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with a Google meet link from Ilia Suitskaver, open AI's
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chief scientist and his co founder. Sam assumes it's about
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the new research Ilia's been excited about. Twelve thirty pm.
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Sam joins the call. The entire board is there, unusual
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for a Friday afternoon. Ilia's face looks stricken like he's
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about to deliver a death diagnosis. In a way he is, sam,
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Ilia says, his voice shaking. You're being terminated as CEO
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effective immediately. The words hang in digital space. Sam Altman,
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the face of the AI revolution, the man who turned
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chat GPT into a verb, has just been fired from
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the company he created. No warning, no performance review, no
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chance to defend himself. You haven't been consistently candid with
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the board. Helen Toner, adds, the independent board member who's
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been increasingly vocal about AI safety. We've lost confidence in
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your ability to lead open AI. The call ends at
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twelve thirty nine p m. Nine minutes that will nearly
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destroy a ninety billion dollar company, send shock waves through
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Silicon Valley, and turn Thanksgiving Week two thousand twenty three
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into the tech industry's most dramatic corporate coup. Within five days,
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ninety five percent of open AI's employees will threaten to quit,
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Microsoft will offer to hire them all, the board will
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beg for mercy, and Sam Altman will orchestrate one of
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the greatest comebacks in corporate history. Welcome back to feuds, power, pride,
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and payback. I'm Marcus Reid. Some feuds are about money,
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others are about power, but the rarest feuds are about
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the future of humanity itself, or at least that's what
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both sides believed when open AI's board went to war
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with its CEO over who gets to control artificial intelligence.
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This week marks two years since the Thanksgiving coup that
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almost killed chat GPT, destroyed a ninety billion dollar company,
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and proved that in Silicon Valley, employee loyalty trump's board authority.
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Every single time, it's a story of idealism versus capitalism,
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safety versus acceleration, and what happens when the people building
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god like AI can't even agree on who should lead
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their company. This is episode thirty seven, The Five Days
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That Almost Killed Ai, open AI's Thanksgiving Massacre, Act one,
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the Missionaries and the Mercenary. To understand how OpenAI went
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from humanity's hope to corporate chaos in nine minutes, you
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need to understand the fundamental contradiction built into its DNA
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from day one. Open Ai was founded in December twenty
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fifteen as a nonprofit with a messianic mission ensure artificial
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general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The founding team read
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like a who's who of tech royalty, Elon Musk, Sam Altman,
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Ilia Sutskiver, Greg Brockman, and others. United by the belief
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that AI was too powerful to be left to Google
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or face Book. We wanted to make sure AGI didn't
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end up controlled by a single corporation, Greg Brockman, open
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AI's president, explained, this was about saving humanity, not making money.
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The irony of billionaires creating a nonprofit to save humanity
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wasn't lost on anyone, but the mission attracted true believers.
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Chief among them was Elia Suitskiver, a soft spoken genius
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who'd studied under Jeffrey Hinton, the godfather of deep learning.
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Ilia wasn't interested in money, he already had plenty from
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Google's acquisition of DNN Research. He wanted to solve intelligence itself.
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Sam Altman was a different creature entirely. The Stanford dropout
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had run Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most prestigious startup accelerator,
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with ruthless efficiency. He was brilliant, ambitious, and understood something
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the researchers didn't. But intentions don't pay for GPU clusters
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that cost millions per month. Sam was always the business
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guy among the priests. A former open ai employee told me,
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we were building a new religion. He was building a company.
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The first major crack came in twenty nineteen, when Altman
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orchestrated OpenAI's transformation from pure nonprofit to a capped profit
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structure of Frankenstein's Monster of corporate forms that would allow
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investment while theoretically maintaining the mission. Elon Musk quit in disgust,
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calling it a betrayal of the founding principles. But Altman
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was just getting started. He convinced Microsoft to invest one
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billion dollars, then ten billion dollars. More, he pushed researchers
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to release products, not just papers. When GPT three showed promise,
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he wanted it in user's hands immediately. When chat GPT
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exploded in November twenty twenty two, becoming the fastest growing
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application in history, Altman was everywhere Congress conferences, cable news
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as the face of AI. Sam loved being the spokesman
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for the future, another insider said, but some of us
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worried he was speaking for a future he didn't fully understand.
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The board watched with growing alarm. Helen Toner, a director
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at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, had joined
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the board as an AI safety expert. She published research
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suggesting Open AI was moving too fast, releasing powerful systems
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without adequate safeguards. Tasha mc caulay, another board member, shared
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these concerns, but their biggest ally was unexpected. Ilya Suitskever himself,
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the chief scientist who'd helped build chat GPT, was having
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second thoughts about what they'd unleashed. Ilia went from being
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Sam's biggest supporter to his biggest worry. A researcher close
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to both men revealed he'd see these demos of GPT
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four and later models and literally lose sleep. He kept saying,
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We're not ready, Humanity's not ready. By fall twenty twenty three,
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the board was holding secret meetings without Sam. The topic
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was there CEO putting growth before safety? Was he being
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consistently candid about open AI's capabilities and his own ambitions?
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Was Sam Altman the right person to shepherd humanity into
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the age of artificial intelligence? On November sixteenth, they reached
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their verdict Act two, the Thanksgiving Massacre, the execution of
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the who was as brutal as it was bungled. After
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firing Sam via video call, the board immediately called Greg Brockman,
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open AI's president and Sam's closest ally. Greg, we've made
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a change in leadership, Adam DiAngelo, the Corus CEO and
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board member, said carefully, Sam is no longer CEO, but
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we want you to stay on. Greg's response was immediate,
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are you fucking kidding me? Within minutes, Greg had texted
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Sam quit his position and started rallying the troops. The
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board somehow hadn't anticipated that firing the beloved CEO might
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upset his equally beloved co founder. At three point thirty pm,
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OpenAI published a blog post that would go down in
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history as one of tech's worst crisis communications. Mister Altman's
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departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which
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concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications
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with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.
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The board no longer has confidence in his ability to
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continue leading open ai. The vagueness was intentional and catastrophic.
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By not specifying Sam's alleged transgressions, they let imagination run wild.
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Had he lied about AI capabilities, hidden a breakthrough, committed fraud.
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The ambiguity created a vacuum that sucked in every conspiracy
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theory imaginable. Microsoft open AI's biggest investor and partner, found
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out about the firing from the public announcement. Satya Nadella,
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Microsoft CEO, was in Seattle preparing for a celebration of
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their partnership. Instead, his phone exploded with calls from panicked executives.
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Their thirteen billion dollar investment, Their entire AI strategy was
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suddenly in jeopardy. Satya went from confused to furious to
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strategic in about thirty minutes. A Microsoft insider said by dinner,
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he was already working on plan B. Hire everyone from
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open ai and rebuild it inside Microsoft. At open AI's
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San Francisco headquarters, chaos reigned. Employees learned their CEO had
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been fired from Twitter, Slack channels, erupted with disbelief, anger,
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and rapidly organizing resistance. The board had somehow forgotten that
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in tech employees have unprecedented power, especially employees who could
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walk across the street and get hired for double their salary.
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By Friday evening, the narrative had shifted from board fire's
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CEO to board stages coup Sam. Ever, the strategist wasn't
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fighting back yet. He tweeted simply, I love open Ai
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and everything I've done has been in service of keeping
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it true to its mission. Then came his master stroke.
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On Saturday, he posted a photo of himself at open
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AI's offices wearing a guest badge captioned first and last
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day as open Ai visitor. The image went viral, the
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fired CEO returning like a visiting dignitary to the company.
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He built, radiating confidence while the board hid from public view.
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The employee revolt began in earnest. By Sunday, morning, over
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five hundred of Open ais seven hundred seventy employees had
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signed an open letter with a simple message, bring back
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Sam and Greg where we quit? Act three the counter revolution.
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Elia Suitscaver cracked first. The chief scientist who delivered the
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killing blow, was having second thoughts. By Saturday, Monie warning
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friends reported he hadn't slept, was barely eating, kept checking
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the employee letter as name after name of his researchers appeared.
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Ilia realized he'd been played. A close colleague revealed the
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board used his concerns about safety to justify their power grab.
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But this wasn't making AI safer. It was destroying the
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very institution meant to develop it responsibly. On Sunday afternoon,
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Ilia posted the tweet that signaled the board's doom. I
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deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never
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intended to harm Open AI. I love everything we've built together,
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and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
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The chief scientist had switched sides. The coup was collapsing. Meanwhile,
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the board was desperately trying to find a new CEO.
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They approached Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO. OH he said no,
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they begged Miramadi, open AI's CTO, who they'd named interim CEO,
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she made it clear she wanted Sam back. In desperation,
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they turned to Emmett Sheer, Twitch's co founder, who agreed
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to take the role late Sunday night, but it was
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too late. Satya Nadella had made his move. At one
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am Monday morning, he announced that Microsoft was hiring Sam
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Altman and Greg Brockman to lead a new advanced AI
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research team. The kicker, any open ai employee who wanted
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to join them was welcome. It was checkmate. A board
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adviser later admitted Satya basically said, you can keep the
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name open ai, but we'll take everything else, the people,
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the technology, the momentum. By Monday afternoon, the employee letter
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had over seven hundred signatures, including Ilia Suitskiver. The board
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faced a stark reality. They could oversee an empty building
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with the open ai name, or they could surrender. Helen
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Toner and Tasha McCauley wanted to fight on, convinced they
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were saving humanity from reckless AI development, but Adam DiAngelo,
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the pragmatist, saw the writing on the wall. Open AI
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without its people was worthless. The board's fiduciary duty, even
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at a nonprofit, was to preserve the organization. That meant
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bringing Sam back. The negotiations Monday night into Tuesday were brutal.
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Sam had all the leverage and used it his demands.
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Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley off the board immediately. Greg
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Brockman reinstated an independent investigation into the board's actions, and,
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most importantly, a new board structure that would prevent this
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from ever happening again. Act for the King returns at
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one and Wednesday morning, five days after the coup began,
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OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO. The staff celebrated
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like their city had been liberated. Photos from the office
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showed employees crying, hugging, and holding up signs reading open
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ai is nothing without its people. Sam's return tweet was
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gracious but pointed. I love open ai and everything I've
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done over the past few days has been in service
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of keeping this team and its mission together. I'm looking
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forward to returning to open ai and building on our
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strong partnership with Microsoft. Translation, I won, you lost, and
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Microsoft is now explicitly our daddy. The new board was
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announced Brett Taylor, former Salesforce co CEO as chair, Larry Summers,
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former Treasury secretary, and Adam DiAngelo, the only survivor from
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the old board. Helen Toner and Tasha macauley were gone,
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their concerns about AI safety dismissed as the rantings of
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Luddites who tried to stop progress. In the aftermath, the
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real reasons for the coup slowly emerged. Yes, there were
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legitimate concerns about AI safety and Sam's communication style, but
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there were also whispers about Sam's side projects, a chip
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start up, an energy company that the board felt represented
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conflicts of interest. There were concerns about Sam accumulating too
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much power, becoming the singular face of AI, but none
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of that mattered now. The employees had voted with their feet.
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Microsoft had shown who really controlled Open AI, and Sam
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Altman had proven that in Silicon Valley, founder CEOs are
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kings who can only be deposed if their subjects allow it.
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Epilogue The Cost of Revolution Two years later, as we
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record this episode in November twenty twenty five, the aftermath
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of the Thanksgiving massacre has reshaped not just Open AI
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but the entire AI industry. Sam Altman emerged more powerful
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than ever. The company that was almost destroyed is now
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Silicon Valley's most valuable startup. Sam tours the world like
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a head of state, meeting with presidents and prime ministers,
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shaping AI policy globally. The board members who tried to
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stop him have been vindicated in some ways. AI capabilities
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are advancing at a pace that terrifies even some researchers,
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but they've been thoroughly repudiated in their methods. Helen Toner
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left to focus on AI policy research, Tasha mcaulay retreated
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from public view. Their concerns about safety were real, but
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their coup attempt made the martyrs for a cause that
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now seems quaint. Ilia Suitskaver, the brilliant researcher caught in
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the middle, left open Ai in May twenty twenty four
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to start his own company focused on safe superintelligence. His
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departure was friendly, but everyone knows the real reason he
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couldn't stay at the company after betraying his friend, even
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if that betrayal lasted less than forty eight hours. Microsoft's
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position has been formalized and strengthened. They're no longer just
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an investor, but open AI's explicit guardian Satia Nadella's swift
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action during the crisis proved that when push comes to shove,
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the three trillion dollar tech giant calls the shots. The
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broader lesson for Silicon Valley was clear boards serve at
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the pleasure of founders and employees, not the other way around.
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The old model of independent board oversight died in those
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five days in November. Every startup board member now knows
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that crossing a popular CEO means war with the entire company,
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