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After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public.Both men had worked on OpenAI's safety team, per the report, though most recently, Aschenbrenner had been working on its so-called "superalignment" efforts while Izmailov was tasked with researching AI reasoning. We've reached out to OpenAI and Microsoft, its major investor, for further context.
While it's hazy what information the men leaked, it's been clear for months now both that OpenAI has become something of a leaky ship and that it was looking to do something about it., been up since at least mid-January, which if you recall was only a few months after the Thanksgiving massacre that saw the firing of CEO Sam Altman before his subsequent return.Because this latest report is based on — yes — a leak, it's not clear how well the leak crackdown is going.
It also remains uncertain what implications the firings will have on the rest of the firm, but Aschenbrenner's purported closeness with Sutskever seems salient. As we learned during the failed coup, the cofounder had been" towards Sutskever, his protegé's firing could be seen as evidence to the contrary — and this reporting, if true, could signal turbulence under the calm facade the company has projected since the coup.
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