<story><title>OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money.&lt;p&gt;Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired.&lt;p&gt;The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s1gnp0st</author><text>I personally find the presentation of corporate missions in quasi-religious terminology extremely off-putting. The company might be doing great things, but there ought to be cultural space left for things much more important than companies.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/openai-buy-ai-chips-startup-sam-altman/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>victor106</author><text>And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money.&lt;p&gt;Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired.&lt;p&gt;The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herval</author><text>The moral virtue of saying “I take one dollar a year salary” is a favorite among immorals</text></comment>