Vinod Khosla Can See the Future. It Just Got Hazy for a Minute

Only minutes after Sam Altman was fired by the board of OpenAI on the afternoon of November 17, Vinod Khosla got a call from a major OpenAI investor. “What is going on?” the person asked. In the ensuing days, puzzled calls and texts from various principals continued streaming in. But even Khosla, one of OpenAI’s earliest investors and a man renowned for his powers of prescience, couldn’t predict what would happen. “I just frankly don’t think anybody knows,” he told …

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