https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgwmak/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ridiculously-chaotic-coup-implosion-and-counter-revolution-at-openai

Late Friday, OpenAI began to implode in a fashion quite unlike anything in the history of Silicon Valley. The organization, which has become famous around the world for its development of the AI chatbot ChatGPT and text-to-image program DALL-E, suddenly found itself in the middle of a Succession-like drama so chaotic, confounding, and fast-moving that it was hard to keep the story straight. The situation was probably best summarized by The New York Times' Mike Isaac, who described the entire mess as a “fucking shitshow” on Sunday night. 

That all goes to say that if you are having trouble making sense of what just transpired, you are not alone. To help you make sense of what just happened—and why—we have decided to break down exactly how we got here, who is fighting who, and where things will likely go from here.