After a few years Openai realised that in order to attain its goal, it needed cash to pay for expensive computing capacity and top-notch talent not least because it claims that just $130m or so of the original $1bn pledge materialised. So in 2019 it created a for-profit subsidiary. On November 17th, seemingly out of nowhere, the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman, the startup’s co-founder and chief executive. Mr Smith’s own boss, Satya Nadella, who heads Microsoft, was told of Mr Altman’s sacking only a few minutes before Mr Altman himself. Never mind that Microsoft is Openai’s biggest shareholder, having backed the startup to the tune of over $10bn and In recent days Openai’s non-profit governance has looked rather less attractive. Do you think that firing Sam Altman will cause a split in the AI industry ?

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