On a personal level it's depressing when you work on something and put so much energy into it to see it not work out. When you're an adult you spend [way too much] time around the people at work so losing that is also like losing friends. They will be saying goodbye to many relationships I'm sure. Obviously OpenAI was well positioned and if they want to stay in AI they're going to have to redo work while the company you helped build it forges ahead. Personally, I'd be moving on.

Getting fired, 'made redundant', 'moved to consulting' is bad enough when it happens privately. But having everyone watch the fallout like an episode of Silicon Valley must really suck. Guess that's the trade-off for being in positions like that. People essentially cyber stalking you in a way.