Following Sam Altman’s removal as CEO of OpenAI, Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, announced that Altman, along with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and the rest of their team, will be joining Microsoft.
After OpenAI CTO Mira Murati succeeded Sam Altman as CEO on Friday of the previous week, a number of high-ranking workers, including former Chairman and President Greg Brockman, Director of Research Jakub Pachocki, Head of Preparedness Aleksandar Madry, and Senior Researcher Szymon Sidor, resigned in protest. Brockman, Pachocki, Madry, and Sidor were among those who left the company. In an act of solidarity, a significant number of other OpenAI personnel also left their positions.
As a result of this unexpected turn of events, individuals close to Altman have asserted that the board itself “agreed in principle” to retire while simultaneously reinstating him to the position he held previously. This was supposed to take place on Sunday, however it did not take place on that day.
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Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and board director of OpenAI, stated a few hours later that despite the efforts of the company’s staff to bring Sam Altman back to his position as CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman will not return to his position. In addition to this, he stated that the popular video-sharing service Twitch, which was founded by Emmett Shear and is now owned by Amazon, would have an interim CEO in the form of Emmett Shear.
After that, Satya Nadella, who has been at the core of the discussion between Sam Altman and the OpenAI board, revealed the subsequent measures that will be taken by Sam Altman.
We are looking forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and the other members of OAI’s new executive team. On top of everything else, we are overjoyed to share the news that Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, and their individual teams will be joining Microsoft to lead the company’s advanced artificial intelligence research. According to statements made by Nadella, the business plans to “move quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.”
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