Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott has now addressed its workers in regards to the OpenAI state of affairs with an inner memo (seen by The Verge). Final week, the corporate’s CEO Satya Nadella introduced Altman’s hiring which additionally bought some preliminary response. After that, this was the primary company-wide communication for Microsoft workers in regards to the state of affairs. Quickly after Scott’s memo, Nadella additionally took to social media platform X (previously Twitter) to share Thanksgiving needs and reward OpenAI and Microsoft workers.
Learn what Microsoft’s inner memo stated in regards to the OpenAI state of affairs
“As you’ve possible seen by now, OpenAl has appointed a brand new board of administrators. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman have agreed to return to OpenAl with Sam as CEO. The occasions of the previous few days have been unsure for our colleagues at OpenAl and of intense curiosity to many others. All through, nothing has modified or wavered about our resolve and focus to ship the world’s greatest Al expertise platforms and merchandise to our prospects and companions. We are going to proceed to help our colleagues at OpenAl and the exceptional work they’ve been doing alongside us in service of that mission. As we’ve for these previous 4+ years, we stay up for persevering with our work with Sam and his group.
Regardless of the potential of the previous few days to distract us, each Microsoft and OpenAl scientists and engineers have been working with undiminished urgency. Since Friday, Azure has deployed new Al compute, our newly fashioned MSR Al Frontiers group printed their new cutting-edge analysis Orca 2, and OpenAl continued to ship merchandise like the brand new voice options in ChatGPT that rolled out yesterday. Any of these items alone would have been the accomplishment of 1 / 4 for regular groups. Three such achievements in per week, with a significant US vacation and with an enormous quantity of noise surrounding us, speaks volumes to the dedication, focus, and sense of urgency that everybody has. It’s each humbling and provoking to be a part of such a tremendous group at Microsoft and to have the privilege of working with the group at OpenAl.
On behalf of the SLT [senior leadership team], thanks all to your resolve, and to the large quantity of people that went above and past over the previous few days to assist in so some ways: we’re enormously grateful.”
