Karen Hao
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They do.
So if you consider one of the
Origin stories of OpenAI is this dinner that happened at the Rosewood Hotel, which is a very swanky hotel right in the heart of Silicon Valley that was one of Elon Musk's favorites whenever he was coming up from L.A.
to the Bay Area.
And there was this dinner that was there where Altman was intending to recruit the OG team that would start OpenAI.
So he's kind of telling everyone, you might have a chance to meet Musk because Musk is going to come to this dinner.
And he cold emails Ilya and gets Ilya to then come.
And Ilya specifically wants to come because he wants to meet Musk.
And he also emails all these other people, including Greg Brockman, Dario Amadei.
And they all, almost all of them, not every one of them, but almost all of them end up working at OpenAI.
Almost all of them end up leaving, specifically after they clash with Altman.
Yeah.
One of the things that is happening here is
It is not a coincidence that every single tech billionaire has their own AI company.
They want to create AI in their own image.
And that's why they keep not getting along.
And in fact, it's not just don't get along.
They end up hating each other after working together and then splinter off into their own organizations.
So after Musk leaves, he starts XAI.
After Darger leaves, he starts Anthropic.