No AI enthusiasts saw the departure coming. "I was having lunch with some friends and everybody's phone started ringing," said one participant of an X Space discussion. "I was up in the elevator and I heard and I tripped and fell," said another.
"Confidence is shaken in OpenAI for sure," said Shawn Wang, an AI founder and the host of one of the X Spaces. "You think you understand OpenAI, then this happens you realize you don't understand OpenAI. You think Sam picks the board. Now you realize he didn't pick the board."
Kara Swisher, the longtime tech journalist insider, predicted that there would be "a lot more major departures of top folks" at the company within hours.
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