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as one of the founders of openai, the outside world generally has a positive image of ultraman. he is the father of chatgpt, a key figure in promoting the development of artificial intelligence, a legend in silicon valley, and has a successful career at a young age. . .

but since this year,ultraman's reputation seems to have collapsed a bit.

those who pay a little attention to their news should know that every time a new model or new function is released, various company insider information will follow.

let’s just say that in the first half of this year, it was revealed that employees were forced to sign a “hush agreement”, the super-aligned team was disbanded, and there was a confrontation with musk. . . this gossip is updated much more frequently than the new products of our own products, and many of the details in it involve ultraman.

looking at o1’s release a while ago, this is not it.the series "game of thrones: openai" has been updated again.

at first, mira, openai's chief technology officer, suddenly resigned. as a result, a series of senior executives also left. then it was reported that openai was going to be reorganized into a for-profit organization, and apple also bounced the company's next round of financing.

foreign media's evaluation of openai is also more sharp than the other.words like openai is dead and openai is being torn apart are used.

we don’t know if these things will lead to the decline of openai, but the biggest feeling of shichao’s eating up the melon is that ultraman seems to have changed from a good colleague and a good leader to abackstabbing former teammates, exploiting employees, and telling liesthe super villain.

let's talk about this wave of personnel changes first. it gives people a "disguised protest" that they resigned collectively because they couldn't beat ultraman.

on the second day after gpt 4o was fully opened, cto mira tweeted to say goodbye to openai. as the director of openai technology, mira once led the development of products including chatgpt, dall-e, etc., and she still has a lot of weight in the company.

so like those of ilya who have left openai in the past, the style of painting under the comment area is:what did you see? what exactly did you see? ! ! !

by coincidence (i suspect it was negotiated), two other small leaders of openai, bob mcgrew and barret zoph, also announced their resignation on the same day.

what’s very interesting is that under barret’s tweet, some netizens have already congratulated him in advance for “joining” anthropic (the founder of anthropic is a former employee of openai, and many employees who resigned from openai have joined this company, and are called openai by netizens) of "rebel alliance" ）。

there are also people who directly use the previous "sealing agreement" to create a wave of yin and yang in openai.

even greg, who is on a long vacation, posted a post in memory of several former colleagues, causing netizens to wonder if he was also planning to leave.

if these comment sections can be considered harmonious, then ultraman's twitter is already occupied by sunspots.

a group photo of several co-founders was photographed by netizens so that only ultraman was left.

the proud man who once led openai to the top has also become the villain in the eyes of netizens.

a rough calculation shows that of the original 11 founders of openai, only 3 are still in the company.

i don’t know if you all still remember that after altman was dismissed by the board of directors last year, openai employees collectively spoke out on twitter. at that time, altman liked them all one by one.

although last year's "palace fighting drama" came to an end temporarily with the return of ultraman. but anyone with a discerning eye can see that, the power struggle within openai continues.

every time a core employee leaves, ultraman seems to come out and issue a message to whitewash the situation, but never directly responds to the actual problems within the company. we can't say that ultraman forced these people away, but can we say that he has no responsibility at all?

"openai is nothing without its people" (openai is nothing without the efforts of all employees), this sentence has now been returned to ultraman intact by netizens.

secondly,compared toAI regarding technology itself, some people find that ultraman seems to be more interested in money. . .

according to reuters,under the leadership of ultraman,OpenAI planningreorganized into a for-profit organization, thisharmoniousit was the opposite of what the company was originally founded for.

after all, openai has always been a non-profit organization, claiming to make technology benefit mankind.

although, ultraman's operation to make the company make money is inseparable from the fact that ai does burn money and requires investment from capital. . .

but this makes those who purely love technology feel that openai has forgotten its original intention, and ultraman just loves money.

including insiders broke the news to bloomberg that after the reorganization is successful, altman can get 7% of the shares.

this means that all the founders left, but ultraman was able to obtain 7% of the equity. this undoubtedly focused all the firepower on ultraman alone.

even musk retweeted the comment and said, "this is so wrong."

however, ultraman quickly came out and denied the equity issue. . . shichao also looked at ultraman's statement and openai's response, and can only say that this denial is a bit artistic.

because, according to the statement of the chairman of openai, they have indeed discussed this plan internally, but the specific number of shares has not yet been determined. . . therefore, what altman denies may be the 7% figure, not the matter of shareholding.

in addition, if you used to think that ultraman was serious and responsible for his products, now he may just be eager for success and lie.

according to the wall street journal, in order to launch gpt-4o before the google developer conference at the beginning of the year, altman only left 9 days for the security team to conduct testing. during these 9 days, they had to work 20 hours a day. testing can only be completed hastily.

as a result, gpt-4o was broken on the first day after its release. even if you ask it "how to make explosives", it will tell you honestly.

so when mira was still on the job, in order to ensure the safety of advanced voice functions, the release date was always postponed. this is why we waited for the stars and the moon for more than half a year before the new features came.

if we make a simple division into the camps within openai,it can be roughly divided into the radical faction led by ultraman, and the conservative faction led by ilya (retired).

the former wants to launch ai products as quickly as possible, but the latter wants to ensure the safety of ai and engage more in underlying technology research. as for the results of the struggle between the two camps, i think everyone can see it now.

and ultraman's ambitions go far beyond that.

since about the end of last year, altman has been looking for people and money to build a large number of wafer fabs and global data centers. judging from his attitude, he wants to achieve computing power in the future.self-produced, self-sold, self-sufficient.

but the new york times article said that when altman visited tsmc, he told tsmc executives that he would spend us$7 trillion to build 36 wafer fabs and data centers. the other person only thought that he was he was so bragging that he even gave ultraman a nickname. "podcast boy" 。

you know, building a wafer fab costs tens of billions of dollars at least, and it also takes into account the time it takes to build the factory. even an industry big brother like tsmc has repeatedly delayed several wafer fabs in the united states.

even if time is put aside, the $7 trillion proposed by altman is not a small number. .

all in all, this time it is the departure of senior executives and the reorganization of the company. combined with the "clerical error boy" who previously sealed the agreement, if nothing else, ultraman's image in the hearts of many people is already in ruins.

but there is one thing to say. the current chaos within openai is not the fault of ultraman alone.the game between technology and products and the operation of capital behind it are pushing openai in an unknown direction.

we may feel that ultraman is not a qualified manager because of media reports, but it is undeniable that ultraman's existence has indeed promoted ai.

as for where he will lead openai in the future, it is not something we can control. what's more, the departure of many big names may not be a bad thing for the development of the entire industry.

perhaps it would be better if there was more competition in this market.