He traded up after meeting someone 25% better (i.e. he left because a role in a different company was more appealing, nothing specific to OpenAI)

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He wasn't able to publish as much as he wanted at OpenAI

'abl':4 'much':8 'openai':13 'publish':6 'want':11 'wasn':2

Differences on AI safety (he cared more about safety than OpenAI)

'ai':3 'care':6 'differ':1 'openai':11 'safeti':4,9

Differences on AI safety (he cared less about safety than OpenAI)

'ai':3 'care':6 'differ':1 'less':7 'openai':11 'safeti':4,9

Sam Altman was not consistently candid with him

'altman':2 'candid':6 'consist':5 'sam':1

He was more interested in pure research than what his job at OpenAI entailed

'entail':14 'interest':4 'job':11 'openai':13 'pure':6 'research':7

He had to publish more than he wanted at OpenAI

He was offered a better / more visible / more highly paid / higher in leadership position elsewhere

'better':5 'elsewher':15 'high':9 'higher':11 'leadership':13 'offer':3 'paid':10 'posit':14 'visibl':7

He’s moving to an Elon Musk’s company

Disagreements related to OpenAI partnership with the Pentagon/dropping the ban on military use of tools

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He wanted to focus on research in an area OpenAI wasn't prioritizing

'area':9 'focus':4 'openai':10 'priorit':13 'research':6 'want':2 'wasn':11

He is going into teaching and/or research in Academia

'academia':9 'and/or':6 'go':3 'research':7 'teach':5

He wanted to fight the internet not being fun - https://x.com/karpathy/status/1757075417775964290?s=20

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Sam Altman's chip company + efforts to raise capital

'altman':2 'capit':9 'chip':4 'compani':5 'effort':6 'rais':8 'sam':1

'blog':5 'creat':2 'ideal':4 'platform':6

He's better at teaching/blogging than research

'better':3 'research':7 'teaching/blogging':5

'actual':6 'ai':8 'open':7 'want':2 'work':4

'ai':2 'left':1 'new':6 'research':3 'someth':5

He left out of his own free will (If he could have stayed at OpenAI, he would not have chosen to do so)

'chosen':20 'could':11 'free':7 'left':2 'openai':15 'stay':13 'would':17

He wanted to work on something unrelated to AI

'ai':9 'someth':6 'unrel':7 'want':2 'work':4

Something to do with Sam Altman trying to raise 7 trillion dollars

'7':10 'altman':6 'dollar':12 'rais':9 'sam':5 'someth':1 'tri':7 'trillion':11

Breakdown in trust between OpenAI leadership

'breakdown':1 'leadership':6 'openai':5 'trust':3

Disagreement over OpenAI's general direction/mission

'direction/mission':6 'disagr':1 'general':5 'openai':3

Resolves according to my best judgment according to credible reporting by the end of the March. Multiple answers can resolve yes.

I'll consult with other users to make sure there is a consensus. Exact resolution details to be determined.

To speculate on where he'll work next, see here: