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It's been four full days since Sam Altman's shocking dismissal from OpenAI, and we still have no idea where he's going to land. There are suggestions that Altman, one of the most powerful figures in AI, could return to the company if the board changes significantly--talks are reportedly under way. But there is also an offer on the table from Microsoft to start a new AI research group there, which would be a cruelly ironic outcome for OpenAI, which was founded as a nonprofit with the goal of drawing talent away from Silicon Valley's biggest companies and developing AI safely. How Altman got to this moment is telling. In the days after his firing, he managed to prove that he is far more than a figurehead, winning over a majority of OpenAI employees (including Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief scientist and the reported architect of his dismissal--it's, uh, complicated) and some of the tech industry's biggest luminaries.

Talks continued Tuesday on the future of OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence company that has been roiled by turmoil and uncertainty since the nonprofit board that oversees the startup ousted Chief Executive Sam Altman last week. The company's board, senior leaders and Altman were discussing a way to "reunify" the company, according to an internal memo from Anna Makanju on Monday night. "Our number one goal remains to reunify OpenAI and discussions are actively ongoing," Makanju wrote in the memo, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, and previously reported by Bloomberg News. "These intense discussions can drag out, and I know it can feel impossible to be patient," wrote Makanju, head of global affairs at OpenAI. "In the meantime, know that we have a plan that we are working toward. We will be sure to update you as soon as we have more details."

OpenAI rival Anthropic launched Claude 2.1 today. The latest version of the ChatGPT rival boosts its context window to 200,000 tokens, allowing you to paste the entirety of Homer's The Odyssey for AI analysis. The company said version 2.1 also halves Claude's hallucination rate, leading to fewer erroneous answers (like those the ChatGPT lawyer trusted far too much). Coincidentally or not, the update arrives as the tech world watches Anthropic's rival OpenAI descending into pandemonium. The company says Claude 2.1's 200K-token context window allows users to upload entire codebases, academic papers, financial statements or long literary works.

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Even though it seemed that former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would lead a new AI research division at Microsoft, he might still get his old job back. According to Bloomberg, the OpenAI board -- which caused chaos at the company when it fired Altman on Friday -- has reopened discussions with the former chief executive regarding his possible reinstatement. The talks are said to involve board member (and Quora CEO) Adam D'Angelo as well as OpenAI investors, some of whom have been pushing for Altman's return. According to the report, board members "largely refused to engage" with Altman until Monday, so these latest talks are said to be a significant development. Meanwhile, Kevin Scott, Microsoft's chief technology officer, said that his company will match the compensation OpenAI workers are currently receiving if they jump ship.

Altman's sudden move to join Microsoft is not finalized, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, signaled in an interview with CNBC on Monday. A person familiar with the matter said he would only return to OpenAI if the board members who ousted him stepped down. In the CNBC interview on Monday afternoon, Nadella sought to assure customers and investors that his company was on solid ground no matter the outcome. He left the door open for Altman to return to OpenAI or continue on as an AI leader at Microsoft, even though he announced late Sunday night that Altman was coming to Microsoft. "I'm open to both options," Nadella said in the interview with CNBC.

Ilya Sutskever, bless his heart. Until recently, to the extent that Sutskever was known at all, it was as a brilliant artificial-intelligence researcher. He was the star student who helped Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers of AI," kick off the so-called deep-learning revolution. In 2015, after a short stint at Google, Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and eventually became its chief scientist; so important was he to the company's success that Elon Musk has taken credit for recruiting him. Still, apart from niche podcast appearances and the obligatory hour-plus back-and-forth with Lex Fridman, Sutskever didn't have much of a public profile before this past weekend.

The boss of Microsoft has said there is "no OpenAI" without his company's involvement, as he revealed the American tech behemoth was not consulted about the sacking of Sam Altman. Satya Nadella said Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest investor, was not contacted by OpenAI board members before they sacked Altman as chief executive on Friday. Speaking to the tech journalist Kara Swisher on her podcast, he said: "It's not even the money and the capital. I mean, here's a simple way to think about this. Someone's got to think about why? There is no OpenAI without, sort of, Microsoft leaning in, in a deep way, to partner with this company on their mission."

It's been a drama-filled week for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Its wunderkind CEO Sam Altman has been unceremoniously booted out by its board and more than 600 staff members are now threatening to quit unless he's allowed back in. As a writer, I am of course duty-bound to swear on my copy of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists that I did not use OpenAI's chatbot to write this column – or did I? Even if I did, why would I fess up to it? Thanks to disastrously unpopular attempts by the likes of BuzzFeed to create AI-assisted content, its name is mud in the media industry.