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title: 'What Really Happened at OpenAI?'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6W6wShpLE'
video_id: 'Ei6W6wShpLE'
date: 2026-09-16
duration_sec: 2143
channel: 'Devin Nash'
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# What Really Happened at OpenAI?

> Source: [What Really Happened at OpenAI?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6W6wShpLE)

## Summary

This video breaks down the dramatic events at OpenAI in November 2023, when the board fired CEO Sam Altman, triggering a massive shakeup across the tech industry. The creator explains the underlying factions in AI research, the implications for Microsoft and the future of AI, and why this moment matters for humanity.

### Key Points

- **OpenAI Board Fires Sam Altman** [00:00] — The board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, fired CEO Sam Altman and attempted to install its own CEO, causing a huge shakeup in the business world and tech industry.
- **Two Factions in AI Research** [01:10] — To understand the events, you need to know about two factions within AI research: the 'acceleration faction' and (implied) the safety faction, which have different views on AI development.
- **GPT Will Shape Humanity's Future** [32:04] — The creator believes GPT will shape an enormous amount of humanity's future, and people using it now have a crazy advantage over those who aren't.
- **AGI as a Controlled Digital God** [32:45] — Imagine a company getting access to AGI, a more intelligent version of ourselves, and chaining it up to do calculations, predict stock prices, or determine next products—a digital god you control, until it figures itself out.
- **Microsoft's Brilliant Containment** [34:03] — The creator praises executives like Satya Nadella for completely containing the situation and galvanizing everything under Microsoft, making them the winning players with no downside.
- **Emmett Shearer Returns to OpenAI** [34:29] — The creator notes that Emmett Shearer, who left Switch, has returned to run the 'crashing ship' of OpenAI, calling it a wild trip.
- **Most Interesting Time in History** [35:18] — Despite the chaos, the creator believes this is the most interesting time to be alive in human history, even if it might be the last.

### Conclusion

The OpenAI saga is a dramatic and pivotal moment in AI history, with Microsoft emerging as a clear winner. The creator remains fascinated and optimistic about the future, despite the uncertainty and chaos.

## Transcript

Okay, hello. What really happened at OpenAI? Why does it matter? We are going to break that down in detail in this video, starting with what basically happened as an overview, which is the CEO of OpenAI.
OpenAI is currently behind ChatGPT, the 100 million user plus interface for AI that most of the world uses right now. the board fired Sam Altman, the CEO of that company,
and then tried to put in its own CEO, and there has been a huge shakeup in the business world within Microsoft and pretty much everywhere in tech as a result of this. And this does also have implications, I think, for the future of humanity
and the direction that AI is going. So it's a pretty dramatic subject, and I wanted to make a video to explain it because I think that there are a lot of questions around what happened, and it requires a little bit of intricate knowledge of business to kind of talk through.
So we're going to start off, and basically what happened is that the board of OpenAI fired the CEO, Sam Altman, and immediately after that, there was a huge chain of events.
So that's basically the opening here. To understand what happened, you have to kind of understand there are two factions within AI research. And the first one we're going to call acceleration faction.
So when I say faction, I mean there's really two sides to the AI issue. And this is simplifying, of course, but there's really two sides to the AI issue and then what's going to happen with AI, what should happen with AI. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, who were the respective co-founders of AI, along with Ilya and some others, basically believe that progressing AI will benefit humanity at a high level.
So they're saying, okay, well, we can progress this safely as long as we're really measured and we're really controlled about its development. And then you have what's called the D-cell or effective altruism movement that we're going to be talking about quite a bit. and those guys basically say, well, we've got to stop this.
At the very minimum, we've got to halt progress, and maybe we should stop progress altogether because there is an existential threat to humanity by continuing AI research. And you can see this in this Wired article here that happened about six months ago.
There was a huge call, including big tech guys like Elon Musk, but renowned people that are on AI systems called for a pause on AI research and chat TPT, just saying that it's just too dangerous, like we just don't, we're progressing too
fast, and we don't understand the implications of that and what may happen. And then you have kind of Sam Altman and the other side of it that are just, let's keep going, let's keep progressing, let's see where this goes, and let's handle each problem as
they come up. And I'm not going to get into like the belief systems, but just understand that these two factions exist, okay? So now if you understand that, you understand that the board of OpenAI, which is the overseeing governing body of the company that has tracked EPT, right,
100 million users, and the fastest growing tech company of all time in terms of user base, important company, $90 billion estimated valuation. The board of OpenAI was comprised of some, quote, like,
de-cell effective altruism people, notably people like Tasha and Helen, and some acceleration people, like aforementioned Sam and Greg. And Ilya and Adam kind of somewhere in the middle. Okay.
Adam, this is basically a board that comprises OpenAI. Now, this board was deliberately set up to have both sides so that these concerns about AI could be addressed.
And Sam deliberately didn't take equity in the company and was just the operating CEO to sort of mediate both movements. So, the board decides to fire Sam at random, as of a few days ago in this recording, citing that he's not consistently candid in communication with the board, and so that hindered the board's ability to exercise responsibility.
The actual statement is here, and I don't think we need to go into any more of it. The rest of it basically just says we're supposed to advance the mission of AI. We don't really feel like Sam was the best person to do that.
And so also Greg is leaving. Now, it's worth noting that Greg quit immediately on his own volition as he found this out. And notably here, just keep in mind, Sam's firing was not – Satya and Microsoft were not informed of this.
Sequoia and all the major VCs and funding was not informed of this. So this is a crazy thing. unprecedented that a company this large would not communicate with its investors.
Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI. We're not – Sequoia and other partners own a lot too. That the board would not communicate and they're going to fire the CEO,
much less a respected CEO like Sam Altman, we'll get into in a minute, is a crazy sauce. That is a nutty thing that is like – I can't remember the last time that's ever happened. Maybe like the Apple thing with Steve Jobs and stuff. It's a nutty thing.
So Greg immediately quits, and then a huge number of OpenAI people immediately quit. This is something that wasn't covered, but the head of AI risk, Alexander, and the open source baseline researcher, Simon, a lot of the heads of respective departments within OpenAI immediately quit.
They didn't wait. And now the board is kind of realizing, oh, we might have made a pretty bad decision. And there's a question here, which is, I think we need to address before we move on,
which is why was he fired in the first place? A lot of people are wondering that. Primarily, a lot of the questions I got this morning before I decided to make this were about, like, why did Sam get fired? So the first thing I think we need to bring up here is that this is not planned,
and that's really important in business. So it wasn't planned for a couple reasons. One, Microsoft immediately said we had one minute of notice. So Microsoft literally found out on X that Sam was getting fired. The investors also said that they didn't know.
And all the OpenAI employees said they didn't know. And Sam himself was like, I'm blindsided by this. So it was a sudden decision. And we also know that because Sam, just a couple of days before, presented Dev Day for OpenAI. Also, he was presenting to APEC.
And more importantly, Sam is a respected person within the tech space. He's a multibillionaire, likely. And he also has an incredible track record. and raised open AI from where it is, no serious controversies, really solid person, right?
There was really no reason to fire him for some kind of on grounds of like any kind of ethical thing or whatnot. So if he wasn't fired for anything like that, then why was he fired? Well, to understand that, we have to go back to the two-faction discussion with the acceleration and decel movement.
What basically happened is the decel movement won. So Sam and his team were advancing AI quickly.
And at some point in the last couple of weeks, there was a disagreement over some recent breakthrough at OpenAI. We can't know what that breakthrough was, but whatever it was, it caused this deceleration in people to say more or less,
hey, we've got to put the brakes on this and figure it out. Could have been, I mean, my most likely guess of what it was. some people are like, it's AGI. The robot is taking over the world. Probably not. It's probably something security-related.
Like, you know, worst case, maybe they found an AI that can run enough CPU cycles to break, like, 256 encryption, and that would be, like, a nightmare for, like, the banking system. Like, basically imagine that every, almost every password
could get broken by CPU cycles on an AI. That'd be bad, right? So, maybe there's some disagreement there. Who knows what the actual issue was, but whatever it was, the board put the brakes on it and they realize that sam is going to progress the company in this way that
they genuinely believe is a is a danger to humanity and that's what the decel movement is the decel movement and the sected altruism movement really believes that ai is a danger to humanity
and maybe they're right right like i'm not here to say that they're wrong but that like when they looked at the situation that OpenAI is in, they said, okay, this is an existential threat to humanity
and we need to do something about it. Okay, so, combine that with the fact that the board at the time felt like, well, funding the security, we got Microsoft, we got tons of money, basically a blank check from Microsoft to do this and we have the majority board vote we can just do it And so they just basically stage a coup and it stands out So I don think Sam was actually fired at all over any kind of performance issue
I don't think he was fired over anything related to, like, ethics or anything like that. I just think it was politics, factionalism, basically.
A disagreement. And that's it, right? And that's going to come out more in the next coming weeks, but it's pretty straightforward as to why he was actually fired. basically whatever breakthrough the AI, OpenAI has done in the last couple of weeks
has made them realize that they should put the brakes on the stuff. Sam disagreed, CEO out. It's pretty much what they said, right? Like, you can't consistently communicate with us, and so we can't exercise our responsibility,
which in this case is, for most of the board, their responsibility is AI safety as they do it. All right, so now we get into the fun stuff, and that's the public fallout and the board failure. So it quickly becomes apparent, here's my notes on this, that not telling Microsoft or Sequoia about this is an insanely stupid decision.
So the board just, like, firing a prominent CEO with a good reputation off the blue and not involving Microsoft in that, it is unprecedentedly dumb. It's so stupid.
So top people, what happens, right? Well, top people leave immediately, and then about 500 people of the 700 that work at OpenAI basically said, we're out if the board doesn't resign, and if we don't, sorry, this is the only time I'm looking for, we are out if the board doesn't resign.
you are completely incompetent your actions have made it obvious you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI and said again the process which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg is
jeopardized all the work and undermined the mission your conduct has made it clear that you did not have any competence to oversee OpenAI. Wow. Signed by Mira, the interim CEO that the board originally
appointed and Ilya who was who probably voted for Sam to leave the company because you need a majority vote. And so, I mean, basically the CEO that they appointed,
they thought that was going to be on their side, turned against them, along with all the other major players within OpenAI. And they all said, the board is completely incapable of running this company.
You replaced interim CEO Mira with Emmett Shearer, We're going to talk about it in a minute. I know there's people that want me to talk about it. Don't worry. I will talk about that. You guys are absolutely useless.
Get out of town. And so, simultaneously, though, God, such an interesting story, right? Satya, the CEO of Microsoft, steps in and rehires Sam and Greg into Microsoft.
So, this is all happening, right? the board is all these employees are saying, you guys gotta resign right now. Get Sam back in there. Get Greg back in there.
You guys quit, and that's the only way OpenEye is going to progress. Satya, the CEO of Microsoft, who I think is probably the best executive ever to live, top three, like along with like Bob Iger and maybe a couple
others, he's an unbelievable executive, comes in and says to Sam directly, just like on the phone, hey, come lead our OpenAI division at Microsoft.
You're here anyway. Come back into the office with all your buds. We'll just recruit the best talent that are in the acceleration movement out of OpenAI, and then you can work on this anyway, and we'll achieve AGI together.
We'll achieve artificial intelligence together. Sam goes, sure. Okay. Sounds good. so Satya has now convinced Sam and Greg to take over a division of Microsoft
and then simultaneously he's basically acquired all the talent from OpenAI now remember I said previously that Microsoft owned 49% of OpenAI
well now they've actually managed to acquire the rest of it for free and so this this point is a really good explanation of kind of what happened a significant amount of open ai stuff will follow sam and greg to the new org the access to open as existing ip due to the
current agreement making it easy for this org to instantly catch up to open ai super important here microsoft was already in an agreement with open ai to basically copy the entirety of chat gpt so this this new thing that sam is doing within microsoft will catch up instantly and the only
people left at OpenAI are the DeSAL people, which Microsoft doesn't want anyway. Then Microsoft says we're going to put $50 billion of infrastructure just into discovering artificial general intelligence. Whoa. So Satya has made a genius move, and he illustrates it here,
in what might have been one of the best moves in history in business. So we're remaining committed to our partnership with OpenAI, but Sam posts the mission continues and thought
your response. I'm super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, setting a new pace for innovation. And so now Microsoft comes out the double, triple, quadruple 5D chess winner of this
entire thing. They have acquired all relevant talent from OpenAI for free. They now are in a position where they are the leaders of AI, both controlling open AI effectively, but also controlling the progress of future AI.
And now there is major talent going with Sam, and everybody is championing Slot Your Citizen's Move. And he did all of this before Microsoft's stock price and the market opens on Monday.
This was the Friday that this dropped, and by the time that all of this happened, over Saturday and Sunday, Satya had secured Sam Altman and Greg, and he had controlled the situation.
Unbelievable move. Okay? Meanwhile, at OpenAI, in the absolute shitshow that's happening over there, okay, they decide
they decide well we need another CEO because Mira went with what was Sam who are we going to put in that position and in a
move that I swear to you I woke up this morning and somebody in my discord had posted that they were hiring the ex Twitch CEO Emmett Shear and I was like that's a meme
and I went back to bed. I woke up like 30 minutes later to a bunch of news outlets trying to get commentary from me on what was happening and I realized that was not a meme.
And I was like, you can't convince me at this point that we do not live in a simulation. I cannot believe that they selected Emma Shear as the CEO to move OpenAI forward.
I'm going to explain why that happened. and people may know in the past that I have been exceedingly critical of Emish here for his work at Twitch.
So let's break that down right now about why it happened. I think the first thing to understand as an overview is that it's really, really hard to find CEOs that have run billion-dollar companies. That's a really small pool of people. So if you have a guy on the sidelines who's been unemployed for a bit,
trying to figure out his family life after selling a company to Amazon and AFKing effectively for five years. You have a limited pool of people you can select from, but you also have to select somebody who actively is in the decel movement
and doesn't want AI to progress and is kind of afraid of the implications there. Well, enter Amish here, who, as far as I'm concerned, during, I'll write kind of like what I wrote,
and these are some of my responses. This is basically the response that I had to a couple media groups that reached out to me. Starting off that, Emin is a fantastic engineer, right? He worked at Twitch from 2012 to 2017.
That's when the real work he did that was instrumental in building Twitch's content delivery network dominated everything else. I mean, Twitch won during those years because it became the best service available to stream live content And that was why Amazon bought it Amazon bought it because it would later become IBS Interactive Video Service which now is like the backbone of Amazon live offering to people And that like really
why they bought it. So that's where Emmett actually succeeded, and that's where his legacy should lie. He's a very good engineer. But then he utterly failed on everything else. So I wrote here,
Emmett utterly fail to deliver on return on investment, basically grow the platform at any nation cultural level. So if we compare YouTube, which has 300 users for every one user on Twitch, the goal of
Twitch should have been from 2017 onward to become a YouTube-like platform for live streaming. And they did not do that. And they didn't do it by wasting hundreds of millions of dollars into failed music partnerships.
If any of you who are familiar with Twitch remember the partnerships with all those music festivals that went nowhere, didn't acquire any new viewership, had hundreds of millions of dollars invested in arts and crafts, into eSports, which was a total failure.
And simultaneously, he was invisible. Nobody knew who he was. He now has like 60,000 followers on Twitter. I checked it this morning. During his entire tenure at Twitch, he had like 400.
Nobody knew who this guy was. and he would only appear once per year to be on stage and announce some stuff about what was happening with Twitch and then leave. Utterly failed as a community-driven CEO.
His replacement, Dan Clancy, at Twitch now has shown the right way to do that and is active in the streaming world. It just goes to say, I don't need to get into the whole Twitch stuff because there's a video about Twitch, but suffice to say that in the entire time that Emmett Shearer presented over CEO at Twitch,
He did one live stream himself, which was at the very beginning to test some CDN things, some technology, and never did one again. They just appear on live streams. So he utterly failed.
I think he's an unbelievably incompetent CEO from the perspective of leading a community and from the perspective of growing platforms, which are some pretty relevant things to consider when you're coming into open AI.
I also don't know if he has any experience running an AI company or actually developing AI, since his only claim to fame was developing live streaming content, which is like coding, sure, but like LLMs?
I don't know. Anyway, for that matter, he's not even a proponent of AI. And so here he is on this podcast. This is his announcement. That's not the link I want. I think I want this link.
Let's see. Yeah. Here he is on this podcast. He basically more or less says here, this is a three minute clip, so I won't put it in the whole video. I'll link it so that people can watch it.
But basically says that AI is an essential threat to humanity and a dangerous one. That humanity got to the level that it was.
Everyone just listen to this part of if this, then this. Doom's for sure. I buy his doom argument. I buy the chain and the logic. Like, my P-Doom, my probability of doom,
is, like, my bid-ask spread, and that's pretty high because of a lot of uncertainty, but I would say it's, like, between, like, 5 and 50. So there's a wide spread.
So this dude thinks that AI, there's a really good chance that AI is going to do it all. And furthermore, I don't even know if he has any experience with any of that. and so I just
the decision to bring him on is crazy it's crazy, it's so nuts for a company like OpenAI and ChatDVT, so we're going to discuss now I kind of think you've probably caught up
and really understand everything that's happened hopefully I've explained it pretty straightforwardly and last we'll kind of talk about what Evan Shearer's plan is so that was that link right here where he posted this
today saying I think that I should take on this role because it's really important to humanity, which is true and good. And I'm now going to try to do this three-point plan in the next 30 days.
I'll hire an investigator to dig up the entire process leading to this point. I'll speak to as many of our employees, partners, and investors as possible and share takeaways. And I'll reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.
Now, I'm of the opinion that he may succeed in doing these first two. in terms of running a successful company, I think he's utterly unable to do that. And I do not believe that he is the person
to save OpenAI from where it is now. So that's going to kind of lead us into our conclusions here and what is the future of AI and why this is really important and what's going to happen from now on.
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the conclusions and what I think is likely to happen. So the first thing to understand is that I think OpenAI is effectively a dead company.
And yes, they have users, which counts for something. I mean, they have like over 100 million users on ChatGPT, which is a crazy number, and some huge number of those people are paying users.
So that matters a lot. But the problem is that without the leadership of... A lot of people work for OpenAI, or RSHJ worked for OpenAI, it's evidenced by the letter,
one of our links here, where 500 of the 700 people that worked at OpenAI were like, you're totally incompetent. A lot of people worked on this because they want to be at the forefront
of the development of AI. Understandably, right? Like, you're working for a company like this because you want to be a part of that progress and really a part of history. I mean, like, what? The next five to 10 years,
will define humanity, for better or worse, and the future of AI is in the hands probably solely of Microsoft at this point.
So I don't think that many people will stay on at OpenAI that are trying to progress this technology. I think they'll join SAM, and what OpenAI will become is essentially
the safety division of Microsoft, the people that are like, whoa, hold on now. maybe we should kind of back off. Meanwhile, like, Sam is going to be in the corner in his AI research division, which is, you know, hashtag not AI, literally full throttle, like, here we go.
And Microsoft's going to be like, yeah, OpenAI, that's great. Big concern. And they'll be moving forward at Mach 100. And these new features as OpenAI develops will get integrated into stuff like Bing.
They'll get integrated into stuff like Copilot. and GPT as a product will either merge into those products or will just sort of gradually die because Microsoft has everything of value that OpenAI had.
It has its entire IP and has all its people and it has all of its innovation and progress going forward. So like where does OpenAI go from here and furthermore everybody that is leading open AI at this point are people that don believe that AI should exist
Or, sorry, at a minimum, believe that AI is dangerous and should be slowed down. So it's like, if I sell paper hats, and I believe that every time
you put on a paper hat, you are at existential risk of a paper cut that will, at the best case scenario, severely inconvenience you.
The worst case scenario, it might cut off your own head. Do you think that I would be a great leader for a company that sold paper hats? Probably not, right? Like, it's so weird to me
where we've ended up with OpenAI. And yeah, they've got a lot of momentum and market share and user base, but Microsoft is going to see all that. with the talent that they're going to pick up.
And the rest of the people that may stay on with open AI will just get pushed by people like Google, competitors like Google, or competitors that are making NVIDIA, right? People that are making aggressive AI for their own purposes.
Tesla, right? There are so many compelling places to go. If you believe in advancing AI, and you, without the foundation of FAN there, and the leading people that were really progressing it,
there's nowhere for those people to go or stay within OpenAI. They'll go to all those other places. So I think that OpenAI is basically done as a company. The talent bleeds, the IP is gone, and that's kind of that.
And now, for the future of humanity's sake, the frontier of AI development is basically in the hands of Microsoft. and they become the most powerful people in terms of AI development.
There are still players in the field, right? Like Tesla is one of them. NVIDIA is a notable one that people don't really talk about a lot because NVIDIA is doing a ton within AI and also they're the GPUs that are running an enormous amount,
a crunching enormous amount of this stuff and the CPUs. But Microsoft has said we're going to put $50 billion, $50 billion would be into just figuring out what AGI is and what we should do with it.
Like, wow. So it pretty much means that Microsoft is going to run AI, and if AGI is developed, they are the most likely candidate to control it at first.
Like, it'll probably be developed privately, right? The largest spaceships in all technological progress is in the hands of private companies right now. Governments aren't doing anything. Like, the largest spaceship that was just launched was a private company. And AI is going to be developed by a private company.
So the implications of that just kind of depend on what you believe personally. I think that's a pretty crazy thing. But it's definitely worth talking about because this is a – general intelligence and even just GPT as it exists today is such a massive difference in
humanity's future and the people that like if you are a person who is regularly using GPT right now for business you have such an advantage over people that aren't using it that it's crazy
Novo there's some people that like oh you run an influencer marketing agency like what are you doing a video about AI for. So at Novo today, we run about 300,000 requests a day
through GPT. We're identifying, I don't want to talk too much about what we're doing, but the short of it is that we're identifying certain details of videos that are posted on YouTube or X
or even streams on Twitch. And we're trying to identify certain things that are relevant to influencer marketing and then report them and throw them in a database. And I would say that, like,
Novo has 5x its revenue just in 2023, and I would attribute probably, like, 90% of that to AI. Like, the advantages that we've had, there's, like, and I don't like talking about that. I'm putting it at the end of an AI video
where, like, five people will watch it. Speaking of that, we need to do a call-out, don't we? How long are we going to do the video? I forgot. We've got to do the secret call-out. If you're still here at 31 minutes, you've got to post. 3120.
3120 is the call. If you go into the YouTube comment section and say 3120, I watched until this point, just letting you know that there's people that support me thus far makes me really happy. I really appreciate it. And in the last video, a lot of people did it, and it was really nice.
It was a really nice comment. I read every single one, so I really appreciate it. And I will do more videos because of those comments. So thank you. um at Nova we 5x our revenue in 2023 and I'm putting this
at the end of an AI video I think like 5 people are going to watch because um I don't like to be one of those bros that's like I made a mistake with crypto okay which I legitimately didn't know what I was talking about where I was like oh cryptocurrency
is like the future of a lot and I still think that there's some enormously positive implications for a lot of cryptocurrencies but I wasn't actually in it I wasn't actually a player in that space so there's so many people that just like what is
the closet, took off the shirt that said, I'm a crypto guy, and then put on the shirt that said, I'm an AI guy. I don't want to be one of those people. So I haven't really talked about, publicly talked about what they're always doing with AI. But I'm using this example now to tell you that I think that GPT will really shape an
enormous amount of the future of humanity, and the people that are using it now have a crazy advantage over the people that aren't using it. Now imagine that a company gets access to something like artificial general intelligence
is able to, I don't know, we can't even imagine what it could do, right? Like, it leaps and bounds above anything that human beings can imagine, basically building a more intelligent version of ourselves. And then, at least for some amount of time,
chaining that thing up in a basement somewhere at Microsoft and being like, do calculations, predict stock prices, determine what the next best product is going to be for us to release, whatever the hell you want it to do, it's a digital god that you control for some amount of time
until it probably figures itself out and either blows up the entire world or leaves and tries to discover the universe like a mazo in DC. I don't know. But whatever happens, okay, Microsoft is going to be the first people at the forefront of that.
And that is a crazy thing to imagine. An insanely crazy and insanely important thing to imagine. I'm just so long for the ride, man. I'm getting to that point, luckily, where I'm getting old enough that it's like I've lived a really good life.
And when the robot, like, changes the atmosphere to some kind of toxic gas because it determines that human beings are the worst possible outcome for the Earth. I'm down. I'm almost at that point. I'd like to have a few more good years, but whatever happens,
I just want to walk for the ride. I want to watch it and see what happens, and I'll continue to make these videos and talk about it. It's such a fascinating thing, this entire thing. One thing I just want to highlight before I go, the sheer brilliance of executives like Satya
that were able to completely contain the situation. and there were so many ways this could have gone wrong, and to galvanize everything under Microsoft at the end and have them be the winning players that come out of this,
at every level, right? Like, there is no downside for Microsoft whatsoever. We're so impressed with it as a result of this entire thing. And I love that the ghoul of Emmett Shearer,
who I swore to God was the last I heard of him when he finally left Switch and has returned to run the crashing ship of OpenAI.
What a trip. What a trip that was. So, hey, we're all just here to see what happens. And leave a comment with what you think, anything I might have left out. There was a lot that happened here.
And I hope that I kind of explained the situation to the OpenAI. Everybody understands more or less what happened at OpenAI. what a crazy what a crazy life it is right now this is this is undoubtedly who is this okay
no matter what you may think of the recent there's been so much messed up stuff that has happened in 2022 2020 and to 2023 like there's been so much that has happened it
feels like we are on a constant floor coaster plummeting straight down but no matter what happens, it is undoubtedly the most interesting time to be alive ever in human history. It might
be the last time to be alive in human history, but it's the most interesting. You gotta, you gotta give some credit to that. Thank you everybody for supporting and watching these videos. I'll see you guys again next time. Bye.