According to U.Today, a prominent figure in the Dogecoin and X teams, known as 'DogeDesigner', has sparked interest among the Grok community with his tweet about the sudden resignations of top executives from OpenAI, a main competitor of xAI. The news follows the recent resignation of OpenAI's co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, which caused a stir in the tech community. It was later revealed that another senior team member from OpenAI had also resigned. The Dogecoin founder and the community have speculated on the possible reasons behind these sudden departures.
DogeDesigner posed a rhetorical question on Twitter, asking why everyone was leaving OpenAI. His query referred not only to co-founder Ilya Sutskever but also to Jan Leike, who co-led 'superalignment' at the same company. Leike announced his departure from OpenAI following Sutskever's announcement on X. The Grok community responded to DogeDesigner's tweet with various theories about the sudden resignations, with the main joking suggestion being 'because of Grok'.
Billy Markus, one of the co-founders of Dogecoin, expressed his hope that Ilya Sutskever would join the xAI team after leaving OpenAI. Markus, also known as Shibetoshi Nakamoto on the X platform, has previously expressed his disappointment with the latest upgrade by OpenAI to its ChatGPT product, GPT-4o. Markus tested the updated product by asking it to create a progressively funnier meme, but was disappointed with the results, stating that none of the images made him laugh. Markus is known for his support of xAI's Grok AI and Elon Musk, the owner of the X platform, often commenting on Musk's tweets in support of the tech entrepreneur.