The OpenAI saga definitely isn’t over. As reported first by The Information, then by Reuters, the company’s in-the-works enlarged board will not have any seats for main sponsor Microsoft, nor for other investors such as Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, or Thrive Capital.
When CEO Sam Altman was reinstalled last week after five days of tumultuous exile, The Verge reported that Microsoft—which owns 49% of the nonprofit’s profit-seeking subsidiary—and Altman both wanted seats on the enlarged board, which will apparently comprise nine people. Wanting isn’t the same as getting, though.
