Satya Nadella talks about Open AI and Sam Altman

After the OpenAI fiasco and announcing that Sam Altman will be the CEO of a new AI unit at Microsoft, Satya Nadella went on a mini-media tour. Bloomberg (1), CNBC (2) and Kara Swisher (3) talked to Satya about what went down and what are his plans.

What’s going on here?

Satya Nadella talks to the media after hiring Sam Altman into Microsoft.

What does that mean?

OpenAI’s non-profit board fired Sam Altman on Friday (catch up here). Satya welcomed Sam and Greg to Microsoft and the OpenAI employees are pressuring the board to resign and bring Sam back.

• I’m not being told about anything about [what Sam did] (1). Open AI’s governance needs to change after this ”event” (2).

• There is no OpenAI without Microsoft leaning in to partner in a deep way. We have everything to serve our customers if Open AI disappeared tomorrow (3).

• We are open for Sam and Greg to go back to Open AI, but they’ll keep doing business with Microsoft in any case (1). I’m open to both options (2).

• We have a place for every OpenAI employee that wants to come to Microsoft. And will keep supporting the ones who choose to stay at OpenAI (3).

In addition, Sam Altman tweeted that both his and Satya’s priority is to keep OpenAI thriving.