Watching OpenAI unravel in real-time (Changelog News #71)
Nov 20, 2023
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Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a 'eulogy' to coding for The New Yorker, and Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimization.
OpenAI faced a major leadership crisis with the firing of their CEO and co-founder, prompting a significant shakeup in the tech industry.
TL Draw's experiment with GPT-4 Vision highlights the potential of AI in web design and development, while HTML First principles aim to make web software more accessible to a wider audience.
Deep dives
OpenAI Unraveling: Co-founder Sam Altman fired and major shakeup follows
In a whirlwind series of events, OpenAI announced the firing of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman due to lack of consistent candor with the board. This prompted co-founder Greg Brockman to quit in response. Microsoft CEO Satinadella demanded Sam's reinstatement, but the board stood firm and hired former Twitch boss Emmett Sheer as interim CEO. Microsoft then hired Sam and Greg, naming Sam as CEO of a new advanced AI research team. This sequence of events caused nearly all 700 OpenAI employees to threaten resignation and consider joining Microsoft, making it the biggest shakeup in the tech industry since last November's launch of Jatch DPT.
TL Draw's GPT 4 Vision Experiment and HTML First Principles
TL Draw, a free whiteboard app, has embarked on an exciting experiment using GPT 4 Vision. Users can draw a website mockup, which is then sent to GPT 4V to generate HTML and CSS code for a working website. This breakthrough showcases the potential of AI technology in web design and development. Additionally, the HTML First principles aim to make building web software more accessible and enjoyable by leveraging the simplicity of HTML's attributes syntax and the ability to generate HTML easily. These principles seek to widen the pool of people who can contribute to web software code bases.
The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “eulogy” to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation.
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