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There is no indication that Ilya has left the company, just the board. He seems happy with Sam’s return.

The sentence about Ilya's continued "work relationship" with the company sounds like corpspeak for Ilya is out.

His career at OpenAI is nerfed at best. Trust is broken beyond repair.

> Ilya is the one irreplaceable employee there, not Sam

Why do you think he is not replaceable?

He is the master wizard -- no ones knows the tech details and subtle tweaks like him. At least that is what I gather.

Do you also believe in magic or just wizards?

GPT-4 is very much the case of "sufficiently advanced technology".

With sufficient technology it is hard to tell the two apart.

He has the best vision proven by amazing track record in modern AI.

Nah, one day Ilya will be replaced by AI.

The “500 employees” who signed a letter to leave are not worth half as much as Ilya. Good luck to ClosedAI!

To be fair, most of those 500 have less than 8 months of tenure…