His leadership has been impressive. He seems to just totally get it which is super rare for such an old and intrenched company.

Interesting that the tech leadership, including Murati and Sutskever, appear to be on team Sam. Didn't see that coming.

Or else they're now caught up in a coordination problem and are making the right sounds for self-preservation reasons.

Yup, OpenAI's future as a relevant institution is over. Maybe they'll turn into a quasi-think tank that writes papers that a handful of people read; and go on various media hand-wringing tours. That's now the ceiling of their aspirations, imo.

Maybe they go back to their roots of open openAI. Create incredible research, let the public try technologically impressive products and let all kinds of big corporations and Linux/FOSS build ontop of it

That's the most optimistic scenario for me.

I think OpenAI would still ride on the wave of first move advantage for a couple of years. At least, in the education fraternity in my country, everyone is wringing their hands whether or not to get the paid ChatGPT 4 so that they can customise their images with the help of Dall-E to enhance teaching and learning. Hardly anyone talks about Google Bard; Microsoft Bing is not even in our national consciousness

I doubt that. He hasn't been a coder for at least 10 years now. Sama is definitely a valuable human resource to have but not valuable enough to orchestrate all that. But taking him in this opportunistic situation does make sense however.