Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says Her Son Was Murdered (He Accused OpenAI of Copyright Violations at a Massive Scale, OpenAI is Running Out of Money That It Borrowed)
Two weeks ago: Reminder: The Microsoft Person Who Used OpenAI for En Masse GPL Violations Told the Whistleblower to Kill Herself
Right now in the news:
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Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle
"We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death," Ramarao tweeted. "Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police."
"Suchir’s apartment was ransacked," she continued, adding that there was some "sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him in bathroom based on blood spots."
Earlier this week:
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OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought
Now, with its newly proposed corporate structure, the Microsoft-backed startup won't be ditching its nonprofit aims entirely, but it's fair to say that altruism will no longer be the sole priority.
The restructuring calls for its existing "capped-profit" arm to be transformed into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation, a type of corporate entity whose goals are ostensibly to serve the benefit of society while generating profits.
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Daring Fireball: OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
OpenAI’s board now stating “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined” less than three months after raising another $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion sounds alarmingly like a Ponzi scheme — an argument akin to “Trust us, we can maintain our lead, and all it will take is a never-ending stream of infinite investment.”
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OpenAI's Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query
All that fastidious thinking, however, comes with exorbitant expenses. To achieve that high-water mark, o3 used well over $1,000 of computing power per task — over 170 times more compute than a low-power version of o3, and leagues beyond its predecessor, which cost less than $4 per task.
Did Scam Altman too say, "well, he's dead"?
