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2023年11月22日
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Sam Altman 重返 OpenAI 成为首席执行官,前美国财政部长 Summers 加入董事会
- 这一反转是在 OpenAI 的大投资者强烈压力下发生的
- 如果不恢复 Altman 的职位，员工威胁要辞职
2023年11月23日最新消息：
OpenAI 将迎回 Sam Altman，并对董事会进行重大改组，引入包括 Larry Summers 在内的新董事，这一变动在硅谷和全球 AI 圈引起了极大关注。
Altman 将以 CEO 身份回归，新董事会将由 Salesforce.com的. 前联合 CEO、在被 Elon Musk 收购前担任 Twitter 董事的 Bret Taylor 担任主席。其他董事包括在比尔·克林顿总统任内担任美国财政部长的 Summers，以及现任成员、Quora Inc. 联合创始人兼 CEO POE的创始人 Adam D’Angelo （早先被认为是报复Sam的）。OpenAI 正在 X 平台上发布声明，称公司正在“商讨具体细节”。
各方人士的推特表达：
OpenAI:
我们已基本达成共识，Sam Altman 将以首席执行官（CEO）的身份重返 OpenAI，并组建一个新的董事会，成员包括 Bret Taylor（担任主席）、Larry Summers 和 Adam D'Angelo。
我们正携手协商具体事宜。感谢大家在此过程中的耐心等待。
Sam Altman:
我对 OpenAI 充满热爱。过去几天，我所做的一切都是为了保持这个团队及其使命的凝聚力。周日晚上，当我决定加入微软（Microsoft）时，我深信这是我和团队最佳的选择。有了新董事会以及 Satya Nadella的支持，我满怀期待地回到 OpenAI，希望能在我们与微软牢固的合作基础上再创佳绩。
Satya Nadella:
我们对 OpenAI 董事会的新变化感到振奋。我们认为这是迈向更稳固、更明智、更高效治理的重要第一步。我与 Sam Altman、Greg Brockman 和其他 OAI 领导层进行了深入交流，一致认为他们在确保 OAI 持续发展和推进其使命中将扮演关键角色。我们期待在我们坚实的合作基础上进一步发展，并将这一代 AI 的价值带给我们的客户和合作伙伴。
Greg Brockman:（题图就是Greg的推文提供）
今晚我将重返 OpenAI，并重新开始编程工作。
今天我们取得了惊人的进展。我们将以前所未有的团结和强大姿态回归。
有关Sam Altman从OpenAI被解雇及其后果的时间线：
11月16日：Ilya Sutskever，OpenAI的首席科学家和联合创始人，周四晚上向Altman发送短信，安排周五中午的电话会议。Mira Murati，OpenAI的首席技术官（CTO）和现任临时CEO，被告知Altman将被解雇。
11月17日：Greg Brockman，在收到Sutskever的短信后，被告知他将被从董事会主席职位上撤下，但仍是公司重要人物，并保留总裁职位。同时，他得知Altman被解雇。随后，OpenAI宣布了这一高层变动。当天下午，OpenAI召开全体员工会议，Sutskever在会上辩护解雇Altman的决定。
11月17日：Greg Brockman宣布从OpenAI辞职，引用“今天的新闻”为原因。在内部发送备忘录后，他在X平台上发布了文本。随后，包括研究总监Jakub Pachocki和准备工作负责人Aleksander Madry在内的三名高级OpenAI研究员也辞职。
11月18日：OpenAI首席运营官Brad Lightcap在周六早上发送的一份内部备忘录中指出，前一天的公告“让[管理团队]感到惊讶”，并表示管理团队与董事会进行了“多次对话，试图更好地了解他们决策的原因和过程”。
11月18日：据报道，Altman告诉投资者，他计划启动一个新的创业项目，Brockman有望加入这一努力。投资者对事件的发展感到愤怒，正向OpenAI的董事会施压，要求恢复Altman的职位。
11月19日：Altman没有作为CEO返回，而是由Twitch联合创始人Emmett Shear接替成为临时CEO。
11月20日：Sam Altman、Greg Brockman和其他同事宣布，他们将加入微软，领导一个新的AI研究团队。
11月20日 Ilya Sutskever在X平台上发布文章，表示他后悔自己的决定，将尽一切努力让Altman重新成为CEO。几乎有500名OpenAI的大约770名员工——包括Sutskever在内——发表了一封信，表示除非创业公司的董事会辞职并重新任命被罢免的Altman，否则他们可能会辞职。
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2023年11月20日
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AI变局：OpenAI董事会解雇其CEO Sam Altman与重返OpenAI的可能
在人工智能领域的历史长河中，2023年11月17号这一天或许将被铭记为一个转折点。OpenAI，这个曾推出 ChatGPT、DALL-E 3、GPT-4 等热门人工智能产品的公司，经历了一次前所未有的内部动荡。
【事件开端：CEO Sam Altman 的突然解雇】
11月17日周五中午，OpenAI 董事会宣布解雇了其联合创始人兼首席执行官 Sam Altman。这位曾是 Y Combinator 的前总裁，被认为是人工智能领域的领军人物。他的解雇在科技界引起了巨大的震动，很多人认为这是对人工智能发展的一个重大打击。
【内部反应与原因】
据内部消息，这一决策源于与董事会之间的沟通断裂，而非不当行为。然而，具体细节并未对外公开，使得整个事件笼罩在一层神秘的阴影之下。
【行业与公司内部的震动】
Sam Altman 的解雇不仅在外界引起了讨论，也在 OpenAI 内部掀起了波澜。据报道，OpenAI 的总裁兼联合创始人 Greg Brockman 在事件发生后宣布辞职，多名高级研究人员也选择了离开公司。这一系列的离职显然是对董事会决策的不满和对公司未来方向的担忧的直接反应。
【投资者的立场与反应】
在 Altman 被解雇的消息传出后，OpenAI 的主要投资者，包括 Microsoft 和风险投资公司 Thrive，对董事会的决定表示不满。他们开始积极推动 Altman 的重返，并要求对董事会进行重组。这一举动反映了投资者对于 OpenAI 当前管理层的不信任，以及对 Altman 领导能力的认可。
【Sam Altman 的回归之路】
在经历了一天的震惊和反思之后，据报道，在投资人等要求下OpenAI 董事会与 Altman与进行回归的讨论。尽管对于回归持有矛盾态度，但他显然正在考虑重新掌舵，并提出了重组董事会的要求。
【事件背后的深层原因】
据科技记者 Kara Swisher 报道，这一系列事件的背后，是对于人工智能商业化速度的内部分歧。一方面是急于推动商业化的声音，另一方面则是希望鉴于新技术的巨大能力和风险，采取更加谨慎的策略。这种分歧在董事会和管理层中愈演愈烈，最终导致了这场风暴的爆发。
【未来的不确定性】
尽管目前尚不清楚 Altman 是否会重返 OpenAI，但这一事件无疑为公司未来的发展方向投下了不确定性的阴影。同时，这也反映出整个人工智能行业在面对快速发展和伦理责任之间的挑战。
在这场风波中，OpenAI 不仅失去了一位关键的领导人物，还暴露出了其内部的管理和战略上的深层次问题。如何在创新和责任之间找到平衡，将是 OpenAI 乃至整个人工智能行业未来必须面对的重大课题。
附录网上的组织架构图，供参考：
Sana Raises Additional $28M Led by NEA to Build the Universal AI Platform for the EnterpriseSana, a company focused on building a universal AI platform for the enterprise, has secured an additional $28 million in funding, with NEA (New Enterprise Associates) leading the investment round. This infusion of funding will undoubtedly help Sana advance its mission of creating an AI platform that caters specifically to the needs of businesses.
The Swedish-born Sana scaleup becomes one of Europe’s most highly-funded AI companies with $62M in total Series B funding
May 31,2023 Sana, the leading AI-powered learning and knowledge platform, announced today it’s landed another $28m in an opportunistic investment round led by NEA. Workday Ventures also joined the round. With a combined total of $62m in Series B funding, the Swedish-born scaleup is now one of the most highly-funded AI companies.
Sana's mission is to augment human intelligence through artificial intelligence. To that end, the company has built a category-defining product that blends the best of enterprise search, a learning management system, meeting tools, and a knowledge management system into one single platform.
Underpinning this suite of tools is Sana AI, the company's latest release. Sana AI is an omnipresent assistant that can do everything from search across all your company's apps and take actions in response to natural language commands to generating real-time summaries of live meetings and creating entire learning courses from scratch, and writing SQL to query your data. In other words, it's like ChatGPT for your company's knowledge.
By augmenting an organization's ability to capture, organize, and access knowledge at every step through AI, Sana enables any team to move faster and be more productive—from sales and customer support teams to product specialists and software engineers.
"At Sana, we believe every organization's mission depends on the collective intelligence of its employees. That intelligence depends on knowledge, yet most institutional knowledge today is scattered across multiple tools, trapped in people's minds, and lost in verbal conversations. AI is the key to solving this problem at scale. By unlocking knowledge for every employee across any organization, we unlock global progress," said Joel Hellermark, founder and CEO of Sana. "We're thrilled to have the support from NEA and strategic investors like Workday Ventures on this mission."
Sana wasn’t looking for funding when NEA made its proactive offer. The scaleup had a healthy runway having closed a $34m Series B round led by Menlo Ventures last December. One of the reasons for the additional investor interest is commercial performance: Sana has grown its business 3x year over year.
NEA will be represented on Sana's board by CEO Scott Sandell and Managing Director Philip Chopin. Since joining NEA in 1996, Sandell has played a critical role in many industry-transforming businesses, including Robinhood, Salesforce, Tableau Software, and Workday.
"Sana's past track record and current trajectory are exceptional. Thanks to top talent, bold vision, and rare organizational alignment, we believe they've already built a world-class learning and knowledge platform. But what excites us most is where Sana is going next: indexing every form of an organization's functional data through LLMs to become the de-facto AI platform for the enterprise. The use cases for this type of product are endless," said Scott Sandell, CEO at NEA.
In addition to Sana's commercial growth and ambitious team, NEA was impressed by the level of customer advocacy. The platform is used by an impressive client roster of market-leading companies like Merck, Kry/Livi, and Svea Solar—all of whom praise Sana's superior user experience and product velocity.
"Since day one, we've been amazed at Sana's pace of innovation and commitment to addressing customer feedback. The platform is more than a tool—it's become Svea Solar’s home for learning and knowledge. We see the latest iteration of Sana AI as a productivity game-changer, " said Hanna Manberg, CHRO at Svea Solar.
With the additional funding, Sana will continue expanding its product development and commercial teams across Stockholm, London, and New York offices. Sana's headquarters will remain in Stockholm, where founder and CEO Joel Hellermark founded the company aged 19, six years after teaching himself to code in C.
"Joel is an exceptional founder. This Series B extension is a testament to his technical and commercial prowess and visionary leadership. As we enter the new age of artificial intelligence, we believe the Sana team is well positioned to become one of the world's most successful and impactful AI companies," said Philip Chopin, Managing Director at NEA UK.
About Sana
Sana is an AI-powered learning platform that empowers organizations to find, share, and harness the knowledge they need to achieve their missions. Backed by some of the world's leading investors, operators, and founders, Sana has raised more than $85m to date. The company's headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in London and New York. For more information, head to www.sanalabs.com.
About NEA
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. Founded in 1977, NEA has over $25 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2023 and invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of investing includes more than 270 portfolio company IPOs and more than 450 mergers and acquisitions. For more information, please visit www.nea.com.
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2023年05月31日
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Sana Raises $34M Series B to Transform the Way Organizations Learn Through AISana has raised $34 million in a Series B funding round to revolutionize the way organizations learn through AI. This funding round was led by Menlo Ventures, a venture capital firm. Existing investor EQT Ventures also joined the round with several founders and operators. This Series B funding round is a significant milestone for Sana, providing them with the necessary resources to scale their platform, refine their AI capabilities, and further drive innovation in the learning space.
Following 7x year-over-year growth, Menlo Ventures leads funding round to accelerate US expansion
Dec.13,2022 Sana, the leading AI-powered learning platform, announced the close of its $34M Series B led by Menlo Ventures. Existing investor EQT Ventures also joined the round with several founders and operators. Menlo Ventures’ partner JP Sanday joins the board as part of this round. This funding follows a 7x year-over-year increase in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).
Sana was founded with the vision of leveraging artificial intelligence to help organizations learn and share knowledge. To that end, Sana built a category-leading learning platform that enables organizations to consolidate their learning and capture, organize, and personalize all their institutional knowledge.
From personalized learning recommendations to an AI writing assistant that automatically generates content, Sana applies the latest breakthroughs in AI to enhance and optimize the entire learning and knowledge-sharing journey.
Sana's AI-powered semantic search empowers employees to get the knowledge they need from anywhere in their organization. The platform connects and indexes tools like Slack, Salesforce, Notion, LinkedIn Learning, and Google Workplace to provide employees with automatically generated answers in natural language. The result: an end-to-end platform that decreases onboarding time, improves sales efficiency, and grows and retains top talent.
"Now a $30 billion industry, the learning and development market has demanded more sophisticated tools. With a world-class product and incredible team, Sana is uniquely positioned to win the market. They offer two vital benefits to the historically underserved L&D category: the scalability and efficiency of artificial intelligence and the compelling experience of a consumer-grade product,” said JP Sanday, Partner at Menlo Ventures.
"The ambitious customers we serve—pioneers like Alan, Svea Solar, Kry/Livi, and Merck—are on a mission to change the world. Sana’s job is to accelerate their efforts by ensuring every employee has access to the right knowledge at the right time. By leveraging the power of AI, Sana can unlock organizational knowledge with unprecedented scale and speed, supercharging the organizations we serve,” said Joel Hellermark, founder and CEO of Sana.
Sana is now the home for knowledge and learning at digital health company Alan—consolidating a myriad of learning and productivity tools. Today, Alan uses Sana to onboard employees, train sales and customer support reps, and develop their leaders.
"Speed, transparency, and personal growth are key to Alan's culture, and Sana was the only provider able to deliver on all three. Since using the platform, we've decreased our ramp time while boosting learner engagement. We think Sana has set a new standard for what organizations expect from a learning platform. Their tech and UX have leapfrogged the industry," said Filip Lam, Head of People Growth at Alan.
With the new funding, Sana will extend its product development and expand its team across Stockholm, London, and New York offices. The headquarters will remain in Stockholm, where founder and CEO Joel Hellermark founded the company aged 19, six years after teaching himself to code in C.
“Joel’s visionary leadership, and his rare combination of being technically skilled and exceptionally ambitious, has enabled him to assemble a world-class team from some of the foremost tech companies. With learning as the foundation of human progress, we believe team Sana has the potential to play an important role in reimagining learning as we know it,” said Sandra Malmberg, Director at EQT Ventures.
"Our ambition is to build an internet-scale Library of Alexandria, where more than a billion people can learn about anything and share everything they know," said Hellermark. "We're thrilled to have the support of Menlo Ventures and previous backers on this mission."
About Sana
Sana is an AI-powered learning platform that empowers organizations to find, share, and harness the knowledge they need to achieve their missions. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, operators, and founders, Sana has raised $54M to date. The company's headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in London and New York.
About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm that strives to have a positive impact on everything we do. That’s why we support businesses including Benchling, Chime, Carta, Poshmark, Uber, and Roku that are reimagining life and work for the better. Over 43 years, we’ve grown a portfolio that includes more than 70 public companies, over 100 mergers and acquisitions, and $5.5 billion under management. We invest at every stage and in every sector, with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, and Healthcare. From developing market strategies to creating communities, we provide real impact where entrepreneurs need it most. When we’re in, we’re all in. www.menlovc.com
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