OpenAI Explores $500M Acquisition of Jony Ive and Sam Altman's AI Hardware Startup
- OpenAI is reportedly exploring the acquisition of a startup founded by Jony Ive and Sam Altman, valued at $500 million.
- A book by Keach Hagey reveals power struggles at OpenAI leading to Altman's brief firing in November 2023 due to doubts about his leadership.
- The board discovered that Altman owned OpenAI's Startup Fund, raising concerns about his transparency, as mentioned in Hagey's book.
- Collaborations between Jony Ive and Altman are in early stages, with potential for groundbreaking technology, despite no product concept currently.
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This Appears to Be Why Sam Altman Actually Got Fired by OpenAI
It's been nearly 18 months since OpenAI Sam Altman was unceremoniously sacked by the firm before being summarily reinstated just a few days later — and a new book claims to have the tea behind the stunning coup. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book about Altman, Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey revealed, based on dozens of interviews with insiders, that the November 2023 episode jokingly referred to as the "turkey-shoot clusterf*ck" w…
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