OpenAI's internal negotiations are reported to have ended. The result of the court battle is that OpenAI will not re-hire Altman as the company's CEO, but will instead offer an olive branch to Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch. Twitch was formerly Justin.tv. American technology entrepreneur Justin Kan uses the website to live broadcast his life around the clock, bringing the platform into the public eye. In 2004, Justin.tv changed its name to Twitch and began to shift to live broadcasts of popular games. Three years later, the video site was acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion.
Shear served as Twitch's CEO until March of this year. In the past period of time, Twitch has been losing content creators due to the reform of its subscription policy, which has made many loyal fans of the site angry.
When some former Twitch users learned that Shear's next destination might be OpenAI, they couldn't help but sympathize on X and said that they were worried about OpenAI.
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In addition to his work at Twitch, Shear is also one of the part-time partners of YCombinator, a famous American technology startup venture capital firm. He has been working at YCombinator since June 2011.
Fortunately, Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI, served as the president of YCombinator from 2014 to 2019, and the establishment of OpenAI itself also received funding from YCombinator.
From this perspective, Shear may be no stranger to OpenAI. But on the other hand, Shear himself is not special in technology. He received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Yale University in 2005. He does not have any reputation in the field of artificial intelligence.
For the technology community, this is enough to be unforgettable. If OpenAI's senior researchers really leave the company with Altman as promised, then the technical staff in OpenAI are likely to be led by Chief Technology Officer Sutskever, one of the initiators of this "coup", and coupled with Shear, who does not understand AI technology well, OpenAI is likely to be completely surrounded by holders of "doomsday theory" views.
What’s even more interesting is that Shear’s own speech on the X platform was also quite pessimistic. In a tweet last year, Shear publicly called for regulation of dangerous and wrong ideas.
In addition, he also has his own opinions on the regulatory framework of artificial intelligence, and he also ridicules the large model monopoly of large companies.
In a tweet on Sunday, Shear seemed to be still taking advantage of the situation online, posting a four-dimensional road map of the development of artificial intelligence, dividing artificial intelligence camps according to development speed and influence. He wrote in the text, "Wake up, the AI faction compass has become more important."
When Shear posted, he didn’t know if he had received an invitation from OpenAI, but his picture seemed to explain something. Sutskever, now in the green zone, has apparently found a new CEO who seems like-minded.