If you mean out of the board, yes. But then so are Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

Yeah, but no. "We hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI" is not the same as "returning to OpenAI as CEO" and "returns as President". Not very subtle difference, even, huh?

Ilya is the first guy Sam acknowledged. I believe Sam when he says he harbors zero ill will against Ilya.

They’ll be back!

Only a matter of time.

if i was him id leave, do my own thing.

Google or AWS or Cohere will welcome him with open hands.

Larry Page was pretty pissed off with Elon Musk for poaching Ilya [1]. A great opportunity for him to come back to Google.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-justified-poaching...

Elon claims that Larry ended their friendship after he hired Ilya.

Where/when did he say this?

In a recent interview with Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?t=5185

And/or fistfuls of cash.

With his mission?

His mission is super alignment

So out of all the companies, possibly only Google can provide a model to him right now to do the alignment work

Google recently cut down the safety team[1]

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/26372287-6fb3-457b-9e9c-f722027f3...

That's not the safety team.

Google possibly.

But I guess he will stay low key for a longer time now ...

Or Microsoft.

I doubt Microsoft would be willing to host him given that they effectively control OpenAI.

Not clear at all. Ilya leaving would look really bad for OpenAI. Altman needs him to stay, and he keeps the door wide open for that in the statement. Question is: How much is he willing to offer (money and otherwise) to make that happen?