An Open(AI) Marriage

Readers everywhere just got a lucky break. If you asked ChatGPT who would write a great piece on its relationship with Microsoft, it would probably suggest the The New Yorker’s Charles Duhigg. It just so happens that Duhigg was wrapping up just such a piece when we were hit with the recent craziness involving the firing and rehiring of Sam Altman and the overthrow of OpenAI’s board. That craziness aside, the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership is important and one that could directly impact how you work and live. So here’s Duhigg with The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI. The piece is not about the hiring/firing stuff, but of course, you have to start somewhere. “An executive from OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence startup into which Microsoft had invested a reported thirteen billion dollars, was calling to explain that within the next twenty minutes the company’s board would announce that it had fired Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O. and co-founder. It was the start of a five-day crisis that some people at Microsoft began calling the Turkey-Shoot Clusterf-ck.” (Like turkeys didn’t already have it bad enough last week…)