Comment by paxys

I think we are finally seeing the effects of the steady stream of departures of top researchers and leaders from OpenAI since last year. Sure you can declare a "code red", but who is going to lead the effort? Set the direction? Do the heavy lifting? Chart the path forward? Sam Altman is a salesman, not a researcher. Ilya is no longer around. Most of the other top brass has been poached by Google/Meta/Anthropic or left to start their own thing. The people left behind are probably good at iterating, but can they really make the next leap forward on their own?