The OpenAI saga is far from over, and a lot of people will lose a lot of money if it stops here

Around 3:00 am ET this morning, the 48-hour OpenAI saga seemed to wrap. After his shocking firing on Friday, ousted CEO Sam Altman spent a long weekend fruitlessly negotiating with OpenAI’s four remaining board members along with Greg Brockman, the former chairman of the board, and Microsoft. A few hours before Monday’s market open, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put an end to the shenanigans.

He announced that he had hired Altman and Brockman to run an AI research group at Microsoft. OpenAI…