Murati tells Altman that she hopes Nadella “can help undo this,” meaning his ouster. But she’s not optimistic, even if Altman is successful in rallying the staff and cofounders to his side.
“They don’t care if everyone quits,” she tells Altman. He, meanwhile, worries that the board wants to cut a deal transferring OpenAI’s intellectual property to Anthropic.
“Is that what they want is the IP going to anthropic?” Altman asks.
Murati, at the time, had been highly critical of Altman’s leadership. At the Musk v Altman trial on Wednesday, jurors heard video testimony in which she said he created “chaos” by pitting executives against each other and telling people what they wanted to hear.
She said she helped him get his job back to “stabilize” the company amid objections to the board’s handling of his ouster.
“The company was pretty much imploding,” she explained in her testimony.
